Reason and its objects are not things of reflection, association, discursion, discourse in the old sense of the word as opposed to intuition; "discursive or intuitive," as Milton has it. Reason does not indeed necessarily exclude the finite, either in time or in space, but it includes them eminenter. Thus the prime mover of the material universe is affirmed to contain all motion as its cause, but not to be, or to suffer, motion in itself.英文原著 · 《Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc》
Dialect, 293. DiERL, 21, 259. DiETz, 436. Dilettantes, 393. 1)imension, third, and image, 235. Discursiveness, help against, 19. Dishonesty, in women, 341; causes hypocrisy, 343. Dispositions, 234; and habit, 408.英文原著 · 《Criminal Psychology》
The couple drew near. Mortimer sat with a faint smile on her face. The girl was chatting merrily to the young man, and he listened to her and laughed every now and then, but his bright eyes were not fixed on her, but were here, there, and everywhere, where metal attractive to such eyes might be found. The discursive mood of the eyes somehow pleased Mrs. Mortimer. Just as the young man came opposite her, he glanced in her direction.英文原著 · 《Frivolous Cupid》
The allusive style has its proper place, like another, if it is used by the right man, and the concentrated and structural style has also its higher province. It would not do to employ either style in the wrong place. In a rambling discursive essay, for example, a mere straying after the bird in the branches, or the thorn in the way, he might not take the safest road who imitated Mr. Pater's style in what follows:英文原著 · 《How to Fail in Literature》
"HEART-AFFLUENCE in discursive talk From household fountains never dry; The CRITIC CLEARNESS of an eye, That saw through all the Muses' walk;英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
Let's start with Foucault's discursive regime, and we'll go from there.美剧 · 《Shameless》