Discursion

There is yet another kind of discursion beginning with appetite to recover something lost, proceeding from the present backward, from the thought of the place where we miss it, to the thought of the place from whence we came last; and from the thought of that, to the thought of a place before, till we have in our mind some place, wherein we had the thing we miss: and this is called REMINISCENCE. ❋ Unknown (1650)

To omit that kind of discursion by which we proceed from any thing to any thing, there are of the other kind divers sorts. ❋ Unknown (1650)

I had a bit of trouble following his discursion into the nature of temporal logic. ❋ L. Lee Lowe (2009)

Any alteration can void the check at the discursion of the bank. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The possibility of crazy-quilt discursion looms high, but Arax calmly sews the diverse stories and dramatic studies into coherence and poignancy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That underscoring observer is Richard Todd, a longtime cultural critic with Montaigne-like tendencies toward gently acerbic discursion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Chinese television viewers were further mislead, during the ceremonies 'long discursion about the grandeur of the country's supposed 5,000 years of history by a fireworks display that was not the fireworks display that those in attendance at the National Stadium, the' Bird's Nest 'actually saw. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It featured, of all things, a discursion into "a decrepit prison in Iraqi Kurdistan" where "a senior interrogator with the Kurdish intelligence service" tortured an Arab prisoner. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The discursion today was immediately rejected as false by a Taliban spokesman and it came as a suicide car bomber killed four people in Kabul. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Despite their agitated discursion, the trio of ornithorps retained their composure. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1992)

And hence to use comparison and discursion is connatural to the souls of the blessed, but not to angels. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Now the proper operation of a rational soul consists in comparison and discursion from one thing to another. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Now these things are withheld from Christ only inasmuch as they imply comparison and discursion. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Obj. 2: Further, man needs comparison and discursion of reason in order to find out the unknown. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Reply Obj. 2: This reason rests upon discursion and comparison, as used to acquire knowledge. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

'It comes to this,' he said, after a long and rambling discursion on his wrong; 'when I was the only man in Naples who could speak English and would have to do with him, he used me; and now that he is at home here, and can speak the language, and has plenty of money, he will have no more to do.' ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)