excurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excurses
form: excourse
Etymology: From Classical Latin excursus. Doublet of excursus. In the “excursus” sense, some later examples in plural may show errors for excursuses.
Senses: examples: text: By the labors of the Bridgewater writers, the argument has been cleared of many extraneous and unnecessary excurses.
ref: 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 Christ; […], Boston, Mass.: Gould and Lincoln, […]; New York, N.Y.: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25:
text: Prof. Kuhn shows further that the original version seems to have been better preserved in the Arabic text, at least so far as the end of the tale is concerned. In two Excurses, pp. 40–45 and 45–50, he examines the Hebrew version of [Abraham ben Samuel ha-Levi] Ibn Hisdai (c. 1250) and the Greek; […]
ref: 1894, M[oses] Gaster, “E[rnst] Kuhn. Barlaam und Joasaph. Eine bibliographisch-literargeschichtliche studie. […] (A bibliographical and literary study about the Legend of Barlaam and Joasaph.)”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland […] , London: […] [T]he Society, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 403:
text: Actually, the passage occurs in an excurse in the edictal commentary, the exact meaning of which is unknown; […]
ref: 1959, A[braham] Arthur Schiller, “Senatus Consulta in the Principate”, in Tulane Law Review, volume 33, New Orleans, La.: Tulane Law Review Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, footnote 71, page 500; republished in An American Experience in Roman law: Writings from Publications in the United States, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971, →OCLC, page 170:
text: Sometimes, there are overlong excurses in drawing out parallels with other Victorians.
ref: 2013 November 29, Geoffrey Rowell, “John Henry [Newman]’s relations”, in Church Times, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, Christmas book supplement, page xi, column 5:
glosses: Synonym of excursus.
synonyms: word: excursus
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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 Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book I, page 52 [71], column 2:
text: But foꝛſomuch as now not caring foꝛ thy oth, noꝛ regarding the ſafetie of thy hoſtages, thou haſt ſo fondlie ⁊ lewdlie paſſed thy bounds: I am to require thée, that thou doo retire and withdꝛaw theſe excurſes of ſtrangers; […]
ref: 1587 January, Giraldus Cambrensis [i.e., Gerald of Wales], translated by Iohn Hooker, “[The Irish Historie […]] The Besieging and Taking of the Citie of Dublin”, in Raphael Holinshed, The Second Volume of Chronicles: Conteining the Description, Conquest, Inhabitation, and Troublesome Estate of Ireland; […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] [Henry Denham] […] at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, →OCLC, page 15, column 1, lines 35–39:
text: As a Twigg, after inflexion, doth return beyond the middle, or line of directneſs, and goes and comes frequently, till it hath overcome the firſt impreſſed motion, and recovered its natural ſite becauſe after the firſt Reflexion is made, a ſecond ſucceeds, for the ſame reaſon, as the firſt, a third for the ſame reason as the ſecond, and ſo a fourth, fifth, &c. ſucceſſively: So alſo, is it neceſſary, that many Vibrations, or Excurſes and Recurſes be alternately made, by a Chord diſtended and percuſſed; becauſe the ſame cauſe remains to the ſecond, third, fourth, &c. which was to the firſt.
ref: 1654, Walter Charleton, “The Reason of the Frequent Vibrations, or Diadroms of Lutestrings, & Other Tractile Bodies; […]”, in Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana: or A Fabrick of Science Natural, upon the Hypothesis of Atoms, […], 1st part, London: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb, for Thomas Heath, […], →OCLC, book III, chapter XIV (Softness, Hardness, Flexility, Tractility, Ductility, &c.), section II, page 334:
glosses: An act of moving or rushing forward or out; an incursion by troops.