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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISCOURSIVE

a. 1. Reasoning; passing from premises to consequences.
2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
The epic is interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DISCOURSIVE

Dis *cours "ive, a. Etym: [See Discursive. ]

1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton.

2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden.

3. Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man. [R.]

DISCOURSIVE

DISCOURSIVE Dis *cours "ive, n.

Defn: The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason. [R.] Feltham.