excur

English

Etymology

From Latin excurro.

Verb

excur (third-person singular simple present excurs, present participle excurring, simple past and past participle excurred)

1. (rare) To digress.
2. (rare) To pass beyond limits; to go to or towards an extreme.
3. (rare) To take an excursion.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “excur”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, Sixth Edition (1785)