excerp

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verb

To pick out.

OriginLatin excerpere →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

verbexcerp (third-person singular simple present excerps, present participle excerping, simple past and past participle excerped)

present singular third person excerps · participle present excerping · participle past excerped · past excerped

  1. obsoleteTo pick out.

    If in that sentence which Mr Barlee hath excerped out of my letter, he can find the word reall, then I must necessarily either explain, or condemne my selfe

    1659, Henry Hickman, Πατρο-σχολαστικο-δικαιωσις

Origin

  1. Latinexcerpere
  2. Englishexcerp

From Latin excerpere, excerptum, from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, gather”). See harvest and compare scarce (adjective).

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Chicago

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