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

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Definition of Digressional

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Digressional

digoxin toxicity
digoxins
digoxygenin
digram
digrams
digraph
digraphia
digraphic
digraphically
digraphs
digress
digressed
digresses
digressing
digression
digressional
digressionary
digressions
digressive
digressively
digressiveness
digs
digs out
digs up
diguanide
diguanides
diguanidinobutanase
diguanylate cyclase
digynia
digynian

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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