excerptive

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adjective

That excerpts or selects.

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Meanings

adjectiveexcerptive (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat excerpts or selects.

    For Communion, he retained the somewhat arbitrary and excerptive pre-Reformation pattern of unconnected Epistle and Gospel readings.

    2009, Colin Buchanan, The A to Z of Anglicanism

Origin

From excerpt + -ive.

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APA

excerptive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excerptive

MLA

“excerptive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excerptive. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “excerptive,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excerptive.

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