excursory

With the preceding preliminary and rather excursory, if not at times, extravagant remarks, I will now proceed, or at least so endeavor, to answer your letter, so full of tenderness and affection, of sweet simplicity and generous confidence;

Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,Febrary 14, 1857 2008

I am induced to make this remark, which I am afraid will be considered an excursory one, from the apprehensiveness that some, observing the translations of the Scriptures into this language to be bulkier than the originals, might conclude that extraneous and unnecessary matter had crept in, which a knowledge of the above fact will prevent.

Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842