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di·gres·sive

 (dī-grĕs′ĭv, dĭ-)
adj.
Characterized by digressions; rambling.

di·gres′sive·ly adv.
di·gres′sive·ness n.
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In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
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Reiteration thus gains a cathartic, yet paradoxical, function, that of cleansing one's identity of traumatic memories, only to reinstate them again, in a constant act of emptying and refilling one's consciousness: "never getting it straight his repetitions what really happened ways to cancel my life digressively" (5).
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The proposal states that the initiative requires at least one million signatures of citizens from one third of EU member states, with a digressively proportional representation of the population of each state, a prior registration system, 12 months for the collection of signatures, control systems in the states and a four-month limit for the Commission's response (see details in Europolitics 3950).