Etymology

percursory

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Today it means: rushed, hasty or cursory. Full definition →

Latin percursor
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  1. Latin · derived frompercursor“one who runs through”
  2. English todaypercursory

From Latin percursor (“one who runs through”), from percurrere. See percurrent.

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