Meaning

(intransitive, now chiefly archaic and somewhat rare) To make a journey, especially an excursion; to travel..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive, now chiefly archaic and somewhat rare) To make a journey, especially an excursion; to travel.
2. (intransitive, now rare) To digress; to turn aside from the main subject of attention.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To travel or pass through.
4. Synonym of excursus.
5. (obsolete) An act of moving or rushing forward or out; an incursion by troops.

Example Sentences

In which of the nine hundred ſtreets—I mean lanes—of this capital of the world—for who can diſpute a Pariſian’s word, who never has excurſed beyond the gates?

Let’s all help our bodies get over what we did to them this winter by taking an excursion to Grace Spa. Or pick the spa of your choice. But it was Grace Spa that I excursed to and that I'm writing about firsthand.

There was a notable lack of security, ostensibly because the place was so isolated, although it seems that journalists still thronged about the borders, leaping from beds of nettles to catch a glimpse of the royal party of excursing.

But how I excurſe!—Yet thou uſedſt to ſay, thou likedſt my excurſions. If thou doſt, thou’lt have enow of them: For I never had a ſubject I ſo much adored; […]

By the labors of the Bridgewater writers, the argument has been cleared of many extraneous and unnecessary excurses.

Prof. Kuhn shows further that the original version seems to have been better preserved in the Arabic text, at least so far as the end of the tale is concerned. In two Excurses, pp. 40–45 and 45–50, he examines the Hebrew version of [Abraham ben Samuel ha-Levi] Ibn Hisdai (c. 1250) and the Greek; […]

Actually, the passage occurs in an excurse in the edictal commentary, the exact meaning of which is unknown; […]

Sometimes, there are overlong excurses in drawing out parallels with other Victorians.

Word Forms

• excurses
• excursing
• excursed
• excourse

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Use excurse when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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