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excursus

noun
/ɛkˈskɝsəs/US/ɛkˈskɜːsəs/UK

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin excursus (“excursion”). Doublet of excurse.

  1. learned borrowing from excursus

Definitions

  1. A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book,…

    A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book, especially a classic.

  2. A narrative digression, especially to discuss a particular issue.

    • Here is what us scholars call an excursus. If you are an honest man the following page or two can be of no possible interest to you.
    • In his excursus on the Jewish people at the opening of the fifth book of his Histories [...], Tacitus was at a loss to uncover any deep cause for the war that broke out in 66.
    • The authors devote a fascinating excursus to the Western imagination’s preoccupation with serpents—from Eden to esoterica—and how this primed the ground for Kuṇḍalinī’s reception.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for excursus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA