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单词 excurse
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excursen.

Etymology: < Latin excursus: see excursus n.
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.

/ɛkˈskəːs/
Etymology: < Latin excurs- participial stem of excurrĕre : see excur v.
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).
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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).
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