discruciatingt (disk roshi at ing)

[Ppr. of dis cruciate, To single hearts doubling is disc ruc i at ing ; such tempers must sweat to di emble, and prove but hypocritical hypоcrites. Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., iii. 20. discu rative or discursive faculty, corresponds to the dianola of the Greeks, to the Verst and of the Germans. This faculty is thought proper; and logic, as we shall see, is the science conversant about its laws. Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Pa ing rapidly from one subject to another; • Pa ing rap i desultory; rambling; digre ional. It is a regular code, of an extent so considerable and of a character so free and discursive, that we can fairly judge from it the condition of the prose language of the time. Ticknor, Span. Lit., I. 44. Heart-affluence in discursive talk From household fountains never dry. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cix. 3t. Pa ing over an object, as in running the eye over the parts of a large object of vision.