excurse
English
Etymology
See excurrent.
Verb
excurse (third-person singular simple present excurses, present participle excursing, simple past and past participle excursed)
- To travel or pass through.
- 2017, Annie Gray, The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria, →ISBN, page 142:
- 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.
- To digress.
References
- “excurse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.