excerpta

[ ik-surp-tuh ]

plural noun

1. short selections or pieces of writing, especially summary statements or parts of a longer work.

Word History and Origins

Origin of excerpta¹

1630–40; < Latin, noun use of neuter plural past participle of excerpere. See excerpt

Example Sentences

This most precious excerpta he continued to read and devoutly study with great profit and comfort.

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Historica qudam excerpta ex veteri stemmate genealogico Regum Franci.

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Schuch incorporated the excerpta with his Apicius, placing the formulæ in what he believed to be the proper order.

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M. Ihm, who faithfully reprinted the excerpta in the Archiv f. lat.

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It is furthermore interesting to note that the excerpta, too, are silent about Cœlius.

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