Definitions for excursus

excursus ex·cur·sus

Spelling: [ek-skur-suh s]
IPA: /ɛkˈskɜr səs/

Excursus is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in excursus (cerssuux).

Definitions for excursus

noun

  1. a detailed discussion of some point in a book, especially one added as an appendix.
  2. a digression or incidental excursion, as in a narrative.

Origin of excursus

1795-1805; Latin: a running out, sally, digression, derivative of excurrere to run out. See ex-1, course

Examples for excursus

In an excursus we shall deal with the language of the Picts.

An excursus upon Napoleon had got into the torrent somehow and kept bobbing up and down.

But call it a note or 'excursus,' which is the scholarlike name for notes a little longer than usual, and all will be made right.

Let us not at this moment go into an excursus to inquire who he was and who he was not.

It is needless to extend further the present excursus on the origin and history of modern pseudo-science.

That would involve an excursus on Irish topography, which would be, to say the least, out of place.

On the relations between Edessa and Rome see the end of the excursus.

This is not to say, of course, that the excursus in the second stage has been a loss and a defect.

Doubtless most of us have so styled him in relation to one excursus of his or another that has specially captivated us.

Write down the chorus to each line of Mr. S. Weller's song, and a sketch of the mottled-faced man's excursus on it.

Word Value for excursus
Scrable

0

Words with friends

20

Similar words for excursus
Word of the day