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excursive (iou) and prepose (iou)


excursive (iou)



excursive adjective. L17.
[formed as EXCURSE + -IVE, perh. after discursive.]
Of the Nature of an excursion; consisting of excursions or digressions. L17.
W. Irving We are wandering..into excursive speculations.
Making or tending to make excursions; ranging widely; apt to stray, digressive; desultory. M18.
S. Johnson An intelligence perpetually on the wing, excursive, vigorous, and diligent. A. Helps Do keep to the point, my excursive friends.
excursively adverb L18.
excursiveness noun M18.

prepose (iou)



prepose verb trans. L15.
[French preposer, after Latin praeponere put before. Cf. PRAEPOSITUS.]
Place in authority. L15-M17.
Propose, purpose, intend. E16-M17.
Now chiefly Linguistics. Place in front; preface, prefix. M16.