Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who excerpts; a selecter; a culler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who makes
excerpts .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Two aspects of the wider context omitted by the excerptor, however, suggest that Philo's ethics were in fact based on the Academic method of argument on either side.
Philo of Larissa Brittain, Charles 2006
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(Eusebius, iv, 3) that some of those cured by our Lord lived until his own time and the fact that Quandratus wrote under Hadrian; the name of Papias has been substituted by the egregious excerptor.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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It seemed unnecessary, for the reason that many of the great passages of Lucretius, Vergil, and Manilius hang so loosely to their contexts that the poets themselves seem to invite the gentle violence of the excerptor.
Preface 1912
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