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Definition of Excursed
1. excurse [v] - See also: excurse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excursed
Literary usage of Excursed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1826)
"... he could not help thinking it a little hard, that the hon. and learned member
should have excursed into so wide and sweeping a field of invective. ..."
2. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1808)
"... though, in the intervals of professional duty, he has excursed to the Bar or
the Senate to make no inaccurate report of the dexterity of wit, ..."
3. The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author by Laurence Sterne (1813)
"... in the ;ommerce. ich of the nine hundred streets I mean f this capital of the
world (for who can a Parisian's word, who never had excursed the gates ? ..."
4. Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society by Minnesota Historical Society (1876)
"They rendezvoused at Chicago, about June 3d, and excursed westward over the new
road to Rock Island, where five large steamers conveyed them to Saint Paul, ..."
5. The American Sportsman by Elisha Jarrett Lewis (1906)
"For instance, I excursed very many times with large parties, where they might be
said to be a pack of dogs from their numbers, and most of them approved ..."
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