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- noun Plural form of
excursus .
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The book continues on like this, swapping between basic grammar lessons and these weird excursuses, many of which take the form of letters written by Brockenbrough to those who have incurred the wrath of SPOGG.
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The book continues on like this, swapping between basic grammar lessons and these weird excursuses, many of which take the form of letters written by Brockenbrough to those who have incurred the wrath of SPOGG.
Book Review: Things That Make Us [Sic] makes me slightly ill « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Several long excursuses, for example to Exodus 3: 15 or Exodus 33: 21, recap his statements on the main issues.
Abraham Ibn Ezra Langermann, Tzvi 2006
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We have extracted here the main points from one of the longest excursuses in Ibn Ezra's biblical commentary.
Abraham Ibn Ezra Langermann, Tzvi 2006
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I'd read so much of both to learn my Latin, and their endless excursuses had so delighted me.
Vittorio, The Vampire Rice, Anne, 1941- 1999
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Dr. PIPES: Well, it's not exactly hard to understand, it's just boring and turgid, sort of long-winded and with lots of excursuses.
Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where it Comes From 1998
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Interspersed in the work are many valuable excursuses on Jansenism, Probabilism, Public Penance, Origin of Imperial Electors, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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There are copious pious reflections and theological excursuses.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Minor excursuses such as that on the Belief in the Coming of Christ, or on the State of the Heathen World (not reprinted in the 3rd edition), would also still repay perusal.
Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell 1817-1893 1906
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M. Cosquin, in his "Contes populaires de Lorraine," the storehouse of "storiology," has elaborate excursuses in this class of tales attached to his Nos.x. and xx.
Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885
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