excurse

English

Etymology

See excurrent.

Verb

excurse (third-person singular simple present excurses, present participle excursing, simple past and past participle excursed)

1. To journey or pass through.
   • 2017, Annie Gray, The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria, →ISBN, page 142:

     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.

2. To digress.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “excurse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• excuser