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Definition of Excurses
1. excurse [v] - See also: excurse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excurses
Literary usage of Excurses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1901)
"If the conditions are not observed the writers will take order with the lord
Warden to requite these excurses upon the doers of them. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1847)
"Of course the charming Journalist excurses to Cintra—'a place to dream over rather
than describe ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"It returns to iu the slightest trace oi'such a person as Theodotion I verse after
long excurses, often in neit to no peris to be found anywhere in the ..."
4. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1883)
"Becker, WA, Gallus, or Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus, with Notes and
Excurses illustrative of the manners and customs of the Romans 1847 De ..."
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