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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 discursively
 (ad.)漫然地

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dis·cur·sive a.
 1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. “Discursive notices.”
    The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive.   --Hazlitt.
    A man rather tacit than discursive.   --Carlyle.
 2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
 Reason is her being,
 Discursive or intuitive.   --Milton.
 -- Dis*cur*sive*ly, adv. -- Dis*cur*sive*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 discursively
      adv : in a rambling manner [syn: ramblingly]