discursively

Here was a man who told her the history of his lifetime, not discursively, but in fragments dropped here and there.

Mr. Stocks, in a huge good humour, talked discursively of sport.

Meredith extolled the intellect, which works discursively; Coleridge extolled the reason, which apprehends intuitively.

Being a living "reason" and a productive power, how could it fail discursively to consider what it contains?

Rambling on discursively, she struck upon an idea, too fraught with delightsome mischief not to urge her to immediate action.