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excourse

excourse is the obsolete form of excurse.

Meaning of excurse

Noun

excurse (plural excurses)

  1. Synonym of excursus.
    • By the labors of the Bridgewater writers, the argument has been cleared of many extraneous and unnecessary excurses.1859, James B[arr] Walker, “Introductory. The Present Position and Bearings of the Argument Stated.”, in Sacred Philosophy. God Revealed in the Process of Creation, and by the Manifestation of Jesus...
    Synonyms:
    excursus
  2. (obsolete) An act of moving or rushing forward or out; an incursion by troops.
    • Ad hæc fratetnitati^([sic]) tuæ præcipiendo modo quo te in Cantuarienſem Eccleſiam recipias, & paucis quidem clericis retêtis admodū neceſſariis, ad minus quam poteris per terram illam diſcurras.1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), Alexander Pope [i.e., Pope Alexander III], “Alexander Pope, to Thomas [Becket] Archbishop of Canterbury”, in John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and...

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Forms of excourse

pluralexcourses

Origin of excourse

Remodelled after course.

Questions about excourse

What is excourse the obsolete form of?
Excourse is the obsolete form of excurse.

Words near excourse in the dictionary

  1. excortications
  2. excos
  3. excosec
  4. excosecant
  5. excosecants
  6. excourse
  7. excourses
  8. excoworker
  9. excreate
  10. excreated
  11. excreates

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