Definition of "discursion" []

• The action of hurriedly moving hither and thither. (noun)
• Digression. (noun)
• Ratiocination. (noun)
• Step by step philosophic reasoning, as opposed to intuition (cf Iamblichus) (noun)

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• "To omit that kind of discursion by which we proceed from any thing to any thing, there are of the other kind divers sorts."
• "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."
• "The possibility of crazy-quilt discursion looms high, but Arax calmly sews the diverse stories and dramatic studies into coherence and poignancy."