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Definition of Excursus
1. Noun. A message that departs from the main subject.
Generic synonyms: Content, Message, Subject Matter, Substance
Derivative terms: Digress, Divagate, Parenthetic, Parenthetical
Definition of Excursus
1. n. A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.
Definition of Excursus
1. Noun. A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book, especially a classic. ¹
2. Noun. A narrative digression, especially to discuss a particular issue. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excursus
1. a long appended exposition of a topic [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excursus
Literary usage of Excursus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Work of St. Paul by Frederic William Farrar (1902)
"excursus I.—The Style of St. Panl as Illustrative of hia Character . . 619 excursus
II.—The Rhetoric of St. Paul 625 excursus III. ..."
2. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1900)
"16 excursus on the Rise of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, ...... 18 excursus on the
... 30 excursus on the Translation of Bishops, . 33 excursus on Usury. ..."
3. 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)
"With Notes and excursus. Translated from the German by the Rev. F. Metcalfe, MA,
Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. 12mo. London. 1846. ..."
4. Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought in the Departments of by Reginald Lane Poole (1884)
"excursus ON THE INTERPRETATION OF A PLACE IN JOHN OF SALISBURY'S ... the very
existence of which the preceding excursus has shown to be more than doubtful. ..."
5. Charicles: Or, Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks. With by Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1889)
"See excursus on The Meals, p. 318. Effeminate persons, in winter-time, may possibly
have covered their feet with something at home; but this was not the ..."
6. New Folklore Researches: Greek Folk Poesy by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (1896)
"And hence I would hope that this excursus on Greek Folk- speech may, in some degree
... I cannot, however, conclude my reference to this excursus without an ..."
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