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Webster 1913 Edition


Excerpt

Ex-cerpt′

(ĕk-sẽrpt′)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Excerpted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Excerpting
.]
[From L.
excerptus
, p. p. See
Excerp
.]
To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.
Out of which we have
excerpted
the following particulars.
Fuller.

Ex′cerpt

(ĕk′sẽrpt; 277)
,
Noun.
An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

Webster 1828 Edition


Excerpt

EXCERPT'

,
Verb.
T.
[L. excerpo; ex and carpo, to take.] To select. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


excerpt

excerpt

English

Noun

excerpt (plural excerpts)

  1. a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media

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Verb

excerpt (third-person singular simple present excerpts, present participle excerpting, simple past and past participle excerpted)

  1. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
    • Fuller
      out of which we have excerpted the following particulars

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