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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin excernō.
Pronunciation
Verb
excern (third-person singular simple present excerns, present participle excerning, simple past and past participle excerned)
- (archaic) excrete; give off
1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:That which is dead, or corrupted; or excerned, hath antipathy with the same thing when it is alive and sound, and with those parts which do excern.
1691, John Ray, The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation:An unguent or pap prepared, with an open vessel to excern it into.
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