excerptive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

excerpt +‎ -ive

Adjective[edit]

excerptive (not comparable)

  1. That excerpts or selects.
    • 2009, Colin Buchanan, The A to Z of Anglicanism:
      For Communion, he retained the somewhat arbitrary and excerptive pre-Reformation pattern of unconnected Epistle and Gospel readings.
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