† excoursen.
Obsolete.
1. The action of running forth or out; an excursion or sally; usually a hostile or marauding one.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > an act or instance of
forthcomec1000
outlope?1241
going-outc1350
forthgoing1382
excourse?1520
forthcoming1533
outcoming1548
Exodus1623
outray?1624
society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] > discontinuing of siege > sally
issuea1450
excourse?1520
sally1560
sallying1560
a sault out1560
out-sally1598
outfall1637
sortie1778
razoo1864
?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xiii. f. 20 He assayled and inuaded more inwardly..by excourses of his horsmen.
1523 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 35 The rodes and ex~courses divised, to be made or not made, as ye shal se the cace to requyre.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. ii. 43 During the whole time of the witches excourse, the diuell occupieth the roome and place of the witch.
2. (a) The means of sallying forth. (b) The extent of ground covered, range (of a person's activity, also of a chain of mountains).
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun]
space1521
excourse?c1550
extendure1610
extendedness1674
expansion1690
extension1790
development1807
extensitya1834
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 6 The mountayne Grampius..from the entree of the ryver Dee..hathe excourse to the Irish seas.
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 6 The nation of Britons..havinge thether excourse owt of Fraunce did occupie the ilonde.
1555 E. Bonner Profitable & Necessarye Doctryne C The Excourse of hym is even unto the helles.
3. = excursus n. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > discursiveness or digression > a digression
sojournc1330
digressionc1374
adigression1483
start1534
interposition1553
vagary1572
excursion1574
excourse1579
parecbasis1584
parenthesis1594
transversal1612
evagation1618
passage1625
far-about1639
excurrency1650
deviation1665
parathesis1668
alieniloquy1727
side-slip1843
excursus1845
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 144 He interlaceth a fond excourse of the authoritie of the later writers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
† excoursev.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To exchange, barter, ‘swop’. (It is doubtful whether quot. 1593 belongs here.)
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society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)]
interchangec1374
changea1382
barterc1440
corsec1440
rore1440
truckc1440
coss14..
scorse1509
chafferc1535
to chop and change1549
chop1554
cope1570
excourse1593
swap1594
coupc1610
exchange1614
to trade off1676
rap1699
dicker1864
horse-trade1924
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 52 b So shall you be ready to curse God, and desire to be swallowed quicke, to excorse the agony you are in.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii To Change..Excourse, Trucke, Traffique..Barter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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