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Definition of Digressional
1. a. Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
Definition of Digressional
1. Adjective. Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Digressional
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digressional
Literary usage of Digressional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Herodotus: the fourth, fifth, and sixth books by Herodotus, Reginald Walter Macan (1895)
"... may be recovered from the second and larger excursus, ostensibly on Athenian
affairs, supplemented by other digressional passages in these Books, ..."
2. A Tour Through the Australian Colonies in 1839: With Notes and Incidents of by A. Russell (1840)
"Institutions—An Australian opinion of Britain—Education, and digressional
contrast—Information to ..."
3. Paradise Lost by John Milton, Egerton Brydges (1851)
"... indeed whe will not pardon this little digressional observation. There is not
in my opinion a nobler sentiment, ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1897)
"... but mainly on forced interpretations of somewhat mysterious episodes in the
life of Poggio. In a digressional note Ross elaborately ..."
5. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and by John Quincy Adams (1810)
"... but I have concluded, that the most suitable place for a lecture, itself
digressional from our regular subject, would be immediately before that, ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1810)
"... has lately passed under our Review * ; and in treating of so voluminous a work
as the present, we shall here, as before, wave any digressional inquiries ..."
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