discoursivelyadv.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 7 To proceede tentatiuely, and discoursiuely, as the foresaid schoolemen vse to call it.

1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 7 You are very bookishly and literally wise, not reasonably and discoursively.

1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iii. vii. 406 Our Joys are raised discoursively; and the Spirit first revealeth our Cause of Joy, and then helpeth us to Rejoyce upon those revealed grounds.

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr x. 285 Though he [sc. the Pope] speake diuers things derogatorie to the dignity of Princes, discoursiuely, and occasionally.

1656 O. Cromwell Speech 17 Sept. Not discoursively, in the oratoric way; but to let you see the matter of fact..how the state of your affairs stands.

1847 Oxf. & Cambr. Rev. Apr. 426 The psalms were neither said nor sung..but—read—dryly and discoursively read—I might almost say..preached.

1893 Physician & Surgeon 15 543 The orator on these occasions is permitted the privilege of descanting discoursively on subjects of no particular significance.

1905 Violin Times Jan. 5/2 The investigations so discoursively and attractively related in the pages of this volume.

1919 Proc. High School Conf. 1918 (Univ. Illinois) 190 The learning mind cannot easily assimilate the perfected organization of material which erudition presents discoursively.

1955 Amer. Econ. Rev. 45 725 Either absent or, when considered, treated only en passant, and rather discoursively.

1977 Crit. Inq. 4 319 To describe discoursively the city spirit is not easy.

2004 J. Weir in A. Antliff Only Beginning 348 Discussions were often disjointed due to the numbers of people participating in them, sometimes speaking in rotation rather than discoursively.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell vii. 90 He hath made an introduction into the Spanish tongue..so that..he may easily come to speake it discoursively.