Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To pick out; excerpt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To pick out.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To pick out.

Etymologies

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Latin excerpere, excerptum; ex out + carpere to pick, gather. See harvest and compare scarce (adjective).

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