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Discoursive

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Dis`cours´ive
a.1.Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
2.Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes.
- Dryden.
3.Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man.
n.1.The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason.


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