excurse

English

Etymology

See excurrent.

Verb

excurse (third-person singular simple present excurses, present participle excursing, simple past and past participle excursed)

  1. 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.
  2. To digress.

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