adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an excursive or rambling manner; erratically, desultorily, digressively.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, an 1728. The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up.
1841. Hor. Smith, Moneyed Man, III. vii. 193. How excursively have I speculated on a lady’s glove.
1871. Arnold, Lect. Mod. Hist., i. (1878), 98. He must now break forth excursively to the right and left.
