Meanings
verbexcern (third-person singular simple present excerns, present participle excerning, simple past and past participle excerned)
present singular third person excerns · participle present excerning · participle past excerned · past excerned
- archaicexcrete; give off
An unguent or pap prepared, with an open vessel to excern it into.
1691, John Ray, The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation1 more example
That which is dead, or corrupted; or excerned, hath antipathy with the same thing when it is alive and sound, and with those parts which do excern.
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinexcernō
- Englishexcern
Borrowed from Latin excernō.
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Chicago
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