单词 | excurse |
释义 | † excursen. Obsolete. rare. An outrush, raid, hostile sally. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > raid > [noun] roadeOE skeck1297 chevacheec1380 forayc1400 reisea1450 raid1455 bodrag1537 skeg1542 reid1544 inroad1548 outroad1560 excursion1577 excurse1587 bodraging1590 cavalcade1591 chevachance1592 chivancy1616 algaradea1649 course1651 outrakea1765 commando1791 razzia1821 muru1836 chappow1860 night raid1872 1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. xvii. 15/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II I am to require thee, that thou doo retire and withdraw these excurses of strangers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021). excursev. 1. intransitive. To run off, wander, digress. Chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > digress overleapc1400 to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500 digress1530 traverse1530 decline?1543 square1567 rovea1575 deviate1638 to step aside1653 swerve1658 to sally out1660 transgress1662 to run off1687 canceleera1697 cantona1734 excurse1748 to travel out of the record1770 divagate1852 desult1872 sidetrack1893 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > change course or turn off > diverge from direct course swervec1330 digress1552 stray1561 deviate1635 slant1702 diverge1856 excurse1891 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xiii. 91 How I excurse!—Yet thou usedst to say, thou likedst my excursions. 1887 Sat. Rev. 17 Sept. 403 The text excurses in Mr. Carroll's usual style about babies and cakes. 1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 239 At first I excursed in various directions thinking to light upon a track. 2. To make, or go upon, an excursion. ΚΠ 1769 J. Hall-Stevenson Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued III. 66 Who can dispute a Parisian's word, who never has excursed beyond the gates? 1820 J. Jebb Let. 10 July in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) II. 440 I..am to excurse ten miles, on the Dover road. 1841 C. Fox Mem. Old Friends 7 Aug. When the Franklins..were excursing in Ireland, they went through some difficult pass. 3. transitive. ‘To journey or pass through’ (Webster 1864). ΚΠ 1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Hallam). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1587v.1748 |
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