Meaning of DISCURSION
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*cur"sion\, n. [LL. discursio a running different
ways. See {Discourse}.]
The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought
to thought. --Coleridge.
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| | Related Terms: | | aberrancy, aberration, afoot and lighthearted, aside, bend, bias, branching off, bumming, bypath, byway, circuitousness, corner, crook, curve, declination, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, episode, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, flitting, gadding, hairpin, hoboism, indirection, itineracy, itinerancy, nomadism, obliquity, parenthesis, peregrination, pererration, ramble, rambling, roam, roaming, rove, roving, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, side path, side road, sidetrack, skew, slant, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, traipsing, turn, turning, twist, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, variation, veer, wandering, Wanderjahr, wayfaring, yaw, zigzag |
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