The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excursive \Ex*cur"sive\, a. Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.
The course of excursive . . . understandings.
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-- Ex*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*cur"sive*ness,, n.
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Wiktionary
a. Tending to digress.
WordNet
adj. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that" [syn: digressive, discursive, rambling]
Usage examples of "excursive".
HAVING given the catastrophe at the Fort of Astoria, it remains now but to gather up a few loose ends of this widely excursive narrative and conclude.