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digressive, a.|dɪˈgrɛsɪv, daɪ-|
[ad. L. dīgressīv-us, f. dīgress- ppl. stem of dīgredī: see digress v. and -ive.]
1. Characterized by digressing; diverging from the way or the subject; given to digression; of the nature of, or marked by, digression.
c1611Chapman Iliad xiv. 105 These digressive things Are such as you may well endure. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. Answ. §2. 30 We will not make digressive excursions into new controversies. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. Apol. 15, I came not to satisfie the people..by digressive discourses..but to dispute with him. 1745Eliza Heywood Female Spectator (1748) III. 310 But all this..is digressive of the subject I sat down to write upon. 1783H. Blair Lect. 39 (Seagar) Pindar is perpetually digressive and fills up his poems with fables of the gods and heroes. 1874T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxvi. 285 That remark seems somewhat digressive.
†2. That turns any one out of his way. Obs. rare.
c1611Chapman Iliad x. Argt., Then with digressive wiles they use their force on Rhesus' life.
Hence diˈgressively adv., in a digressive manner; diˈgressiveness, the quality of being digressive.
1731–1800Bailey, Digressively, by way of Digression. 1768Woman of Honor IV. 92 An example, which you will hardly think digressively introduced. 1877H. A. Page De Quincy II. xix. 163 If it is to blame for not a little of his digressiveness, still it imparts to everything he does a bouquet. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. App. 611 The digressiveness becomes more diffuse. |