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excerptive

excerptive adjective: that excerpts or selects.

Adjective

excerptive (not comparable)

  1. That excerpts or selects.
    • For Communion, he retained the somewhat arbitrary and excerptive pre-Reformation pattern of unconnected Epistle and Gospel readings.2009, Colin Buchanan, The A to Z of Anglicanism

Origin of excerptive

From excerpt + -ive.

Questions about excerptive

What does excerptive mean?
Excerptive means that excerpts or selects.
What part of speech is excerptive?
Excerptive is an adjective.

Words near excerptive in the dictionary

  1. excerptible
  2. excerpting
  3. excerptings
  4. excerption
  5. excerptions
  6. excerptive
  7. excerptor
  8. excerptors
  9. excerpts
  10. excerpts from police record
  11. excerptum

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