excerption

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English

Etymology

Latin excerptio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)pʃən/

Noun

excerption (countable and uncountable, plural excerptions)

  1. The act of excerpting or selecting.
  2. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; , London: Iohn Williams , →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
      his excerptions out of Fathers

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “excerption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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