excur
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]excur (third-person singular simple present excurs, present participle excurring, simple past and past participle excurred)
- (rare) To digress.
- (rare) To pass beyond limits; to go to or towards an extreme.
- (rare) To take an excursion.
References
[edit]- 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)