work in a desultory way?

Question

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Answer 1

Andrew,

Thank you for your question.

The American Heritage Dictionary on Yahoo! defines desultory as

ADJECTIVE:

1. Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected: a desultory speech.
2. Occurring haphazardly; random. See Synonyms at chance.

ETYMOLOGY:
Latin dsultrius, leaping, from dsultor, a leaper, from dsultus, past participle of dsilre, to leap down : d-, de- + salre, to jump; see sel- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
desul·tori·ly (Adverb), desul·tori·ness (Noun)

The Oxford English Dictionary records its first usage in the sense of flitting from one thing to another as dating from 1581

Answer 2

uh huh

Answer 3

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