excourse

plural excourses

1. obsoleteObsolete form of excurse.

   Egreſſus eius a patre, regreſſus eius ad patrem, excurſus uſq; ad inferos, recurſus ad ſedem Dei.

   [1555], Edmonde [Bonner], “The Position or Declaration Concernyng the Sixte Article of the Crede, […]”, in A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, […], London: […] Ihon Cawodde, […], →OCLC, signature G, recto

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   [M]any other places he aſſayled and inuaded moꝛe ĩwardly [inwardly] in yͤ contrey by excourſes of his hoꝛſmen.

   [1520?], Salust, translated by Alexander Barclay, “How Iugurth Inuaded the Kyngdome of Adherball Yet Ones Agayne: And How Adherball Agayne was Ouercome in Batayle: ⁊ Put to Flyght”, in […] [T]he Famous Cronycle of the Warre⸝ Which the Romayns Had agaynst Iugurth […], London: […] Rycharde Pynson⸝ […], →OCLC, folios xix, verso – xx, recto

   Then ensewed Duncanus and Maccabœus, a manne notorius for his wiccadnes and bowldnes, who bie plaine force entred on the kingdom; but, after this littel excourse, I will agayne drawe backe to mie purpose.

   [c. 1550?], Polydore Vergil, translated by [anonymous], “The Sixth Booke […]”, in Henry Ellis, editor, Polydore Vergil’s English History, […] (Works of the Camden Society; 36), volume I (Containing the First Eight Books, […]), London: […] [F]or the Camden Society, by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, […], published 1846, →OCLC, pages 235–236

present singular third person excourses · participle present excoursing · participle past excoursed · past excoursed

1. obsoleteObsolete form of excurse.

   Ralph Palmer has just passed the week with me, and we have excoursed to the environs.

   1899 August 20 (date written), Henry Adams, “Paris and Italy [To John Hay]”, in Worthington Chauncey Ford, editor, Letters of Henry Adams (1892–1918), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1938 (1969 printing), →OCLC, page 235