† excussv.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To shake off, cast off, get rid of. Said with reference to things material and immaterial.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)]
to let awaya1000
forcast?c1225
to lay downc1275
forthrow1340
flita1375
removea1382
to cast away1382
understrewc1384
castc1390
to lay awaya1400
to lay asidec1440
slingc1440
warpiss1444
to lay from, offc1480
way-put1496
depose1526
to lay apart1526
to put off1526
to set apart1530
to turn up1541
abandonate?1561
devest1566
dispatch1569
decarta1572
discard1578
to make away1580
to fling away1587
to cast off1597
doff1599
cashier1603
to set by1603
moult1604
excuss1607
retorta1616
divest1639
deposit1646
disentail1667
dismiss1675
slough1845
shed1856
jettison1869
shake1872
offload1900
junk1911
dump1919
sluff1934
bin1940
to put down1944
shitcan1973
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 305 To brush ouer their horsses with a little linnen instrument..whereby they excusse all dust from the beast.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 17 Snakes with tender skinne excuss'd theyr yeeres enlarge.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. v, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Z2v That the exteriour shell, and all glumosity may be excussed.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. i. §12 They could not totally excuss the notions of a deity out of their minds.
1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 119 The holy soul's release..will excuss and shake off this drowsy sleep.
2. To shake out the contents of anything; hence, to investigate thoroughly, discuss (a question or document); also, to get (the truth) from (a person).
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)]
through-seekOE
gropea1250
to search outa1382
ensearch1382
boltc1386
examinea1387
ransackc1390
ripea1400
search1409
overreach?a1425
considerc1425
perquirec1460
examec1480
peruse?1520
grounda1529
study1528
oversearch1532
perscrute1536
scrute1536
to go over ——1537
scan1548
examinate1560
rifle1566
to consider of1569
excuss1570
ripe1573
sift1573
sift1577
to pry into ——1581
dive1582
rub1591
explore1596
pervestigate1610
dissecta1631
profound1643
circumspect1667
scrutinize1671
perscrutatea1679
introspect1683
rummage1690
reconnoitre1740
scrutinate1742
to look through1744
scrutiny1755
parse1788
gun1819
cat-haul1840
vivisect1876
scour1882
microscope1888
tooth-comb1893
X-ray1896
comb1904
fine-tooth comb1949
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 689/2 If I should..take in hand your Popishe portues, and..excusse euery Popishe martyr and sancte there canonised.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. x. sig. Qq.iiii/2 Sainct Augustine doth more fully excusse and handle this argument.
1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 59 I then excussid the matter.
1654 Junius in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1864) (Webster 1864) To take some pains in excussing some old documents.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 438 To examine a Delinquent on Oath to excuss the Truth of some Crime from him.
3. Modern Civil Law. [Compare Old French escosser, escousser, ‘saisir, dépouiller’ (Godefroy).] To seize, take in execution (a debtor's goods).
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (transitive)] > seize for debt > seize debtor's goods
pound1398
poindc1430
stress?c1430
pind1437
distressc1450
strain1455
strain1503
distrain1530
fence1570
excuss1726
naam1895
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 272 The Person of a Man ought not by the Civil Law to be taken for a Debt, unless his Goods and Estate has been first excuss'd.
1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. ; whence in mod. Dicts.
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