Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of excerpting or picking out; a gleaning; selection.
  • noun That which is selected or gleaned; an excerpt.

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

  • noun rare The act of excerpting or selecting.
  • noun rare That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.

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

  • noun The act of excerpting or selecting.
  • noun That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a passage selected from a larger work

Etymologies

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Latin excerptio.

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Examples

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