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Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : noun ek-surpt; verb ik-surpt, ek-surpt |
Phonetic Transcription : noun ˈɛk sɜrpt; verb ɪkˈsɜrpt, ˈɛk sɜrpt |
Definition of excerpt
Origin :- early 15c. (implied in excerpte), from Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere "pluck out, pick out, extract, excerpt," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + carpere "pluck, gather," from PIE *kerp- "to gather, pluck, harvest" (see harvest (n.)). Related: Excerpted; excerpting.
- noun citation; something taken from a whole
- verb take a part from a whole
- Grenfell and Hunt date the Gospel, from which it is an excerpt, about 200.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 8 » by Various
- Mark the adjectives in this excerpt and use them in sentences of your own.
- Extract from : « Plain English » by Marian Wharton
- The letter from which the excerpt is taken was written Feb. 13, 1895.
- Extract from : « The Fiction Factory » by John Milton Edwards
- Was then this "excerpt charter" a forgery, or a genuine document?
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851 » by Various
- We should not now combine a Norse saga with an excerpt from a novel by George Meredith.
- Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
- He gives in the Supplement an excerpt from the records of the trial.
- Extract from : « Freaks of Fanaticism » by Sabine Baring-Gould
- We excerpt a few relevant statements from these almost at random.
- Extract from : « Principles of Political Economy » by Arthur Latham Perry
- If you care to read the rest of his history you must turn to the book from which this excerpt was torn.
- Extract from : « Lords of the Housetops » by Various
- An excerpt from the rather ponderous blue book will tell us.
- Extract from : « The Opium Monopoly » by Ellen Newbold La Motte
- Let us glance at an excerpt or two from these official British letters.
- Extract from : « Drugging a Nation » by Samuel Merwin
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