"excursive" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, Contemplation, page 3:",
          "text": "Or evening, in her starry mantle bright,\nPrecedes the slow majestic train of night;\nIn that still hour the mind excursive roves,\nA heavenly voice the listening spirit moves.",
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          "text": "By such means he flattered himself that in time he should subvert her fine understanding, and, by the contamination of her hitherto unsullied mind, reduce her to a level with himself,—and this he meditated to effect by slow and gradual operations, through the medium of her imagination, which he had discovered to be warm and excursive;[…]",
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        "Tending to digress."
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          "roman": "otklonjavašt se",
          "sense": "Tending to digress",
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          "text": "Then into the quiet room came Susan Nipper and the candles; shortly afterwards, the tea, the Captain, and the excursive Mr Toots, who, as above mentioned, was frequently on the move afterwards, and passed but a restless evening.",
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      "roman": "otklonjavašt se",
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