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Definition of Excerpting
1. excerpt [v] - See also: excerpt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excerpting
Literary usage of Excerpting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1896)
"... promise whatever cooperation our members should feel able and willing to give
in the way of reading and excerpting printed matter for their dictionary. ..."
2. The Ancient Editions of Plautus by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1904)
"Nonius' copy of Plautus may have been not a single volume, but a collection of
separate papyrus rolls; so that, in excerpting the plays composing the ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1875)
"The author reserved for himself the excerpting of the German journals and the
arrangement of the whole, while the other journals are extracted by a corps of ..."
4. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1897)
"... scholars have given up the idea of publishing it in full, and have contented
themselves with excerpting that which relates to each country or locality. ..."
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