excurse
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, now chiefly archaic and somewhat rare) To make a journey, especially an excursion; to travel.Examples: "In which of the nine hundred ſtreets—I mean lanes—of this capital of the world—for who can diſpute a Pariſian’s word, who never has excurſed beyond the gates?"; "Let’s all help our bodies get over what we did to them this winter by taking an excursion to Grace Spa. Or pick the spa of your choice. But it was Grace Spa that I excursed to and that I'm writing about firsthand."; "There was a notable lack of security, ostensibly because the place was so isolated, although it seems that journalists still thronged about the borders, leaping from beds of nettles to catch a glimpse of the royal party of excursing."archaicintransitiverare
2. (intransitive, now rare) To digress; to turn aside from the main subject of attention.Examples: "But how I excurſe!—Yet thou uſedſt to ſay, thou likedſt my excurſions. If thou doſt, thou’lt have enow of them: For I never had a ſubject I ſo much adored; […]"archaicintransitive
3. (transitive, obsolete) To travel or pass through.obsoletetransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) An act of moving or rushing forward or out; an incursion by troops.Examples: "Ad hæc fratetnitati^([sic]) tuæ præcipiendo modo quo te in Cantuarienſem Eccleſiam recipias, & paucis quidem clericis retêtis admodū neceſſariis, ad minus quam poteris per terram illam diſcurras."; "But foꝛſomuch as now not caring foꝛ thy oth, noꝛ regarding the ſafetie of thy hoſtages, thou haſt ſo fondlie ⁊ lewdlie paſſed thy bounds: I am to require thée, that thou doo retire and withdꝛaw theſe excurſes of ſtrangers; […]"; "As a Twigg, after inflexion, doth return beyond the middle, or line of directneſs, and goes and comes frequently, till it hath overcome the firſt impreſſed motion, and recovered its natural ſite becauſe after the firſt Reflexion is made, a ſecond ſucceeds, for the ſame reaſon, as the firſt, a third for the ſame reason as the ſecond, and ſo a fourth, fifth, &c. ſucceſſively: So alſo, is it neceſſary, that many Vibrations, or Excurſes and Recurſes be alternately made, by a Chord diſtended and percuſſed; becauſe the ſame cauſe remains to the ſecond, third, fourth, &c. which was to the firſt."obsolete
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