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Webster 1913 Edition


Excerptive

Ex-cerp′tive

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Adj.
That excerpts, selects, or chooses.
D. L. Mackenzie.

Definition 2024


excerptive

excerptive

English

Adjective

excerptive (not comparable)

  1. That excerpts or selects.
    • 2009, Colin Buchanan, The A to Z of Anglicanism
      For Communion, he retained the somewhat arbitrary and excerptive pre-Reformation pattern of unconnected Epistle and Gospel readings.