Word Meanings - CURSORARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cursory; hasty. With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles. Shak.

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• CURSORY
  1. Running about; not stationary. 2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. Hallam.
• HASTY
  Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. Take no unkindness of his hasty words. Shak 6. Forward; early; first ripe. "As the hasty fruit before the summer." Is. xxviii. 4. (more info) 1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as,
• HASTY PUDDING
  1. A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. 2. A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk.
• CURSORARY
  Cursory; hasty. With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles. Shak.
• OVERHASTY
  Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.
• OVERGLANCE
  To glance over.
• PERCURSORY
  Running over slightly or in haste; cursory.
• PRECURSORY
  Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.
• DISCURSORY
  Argumentative; discursive; reasoning. Bp. Hall.
• FOOL-HASTY
  Foolishly hasty.