Excerpt

created by Webster 1913

(thing) by Segnbora-t (16.9 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Fri Jan 21 2000 at 19:32:04

a passage quoted from a longer work, usually to promote or review the longer work but sometimes as a stand-alone piece which just happens to be extracted from another work.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:31:28

Ex*cerpt" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excerpted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excerpting.] [From L. excerptus, p. p. See Excerp.]

To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.

Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.

Ex*cerp"t

An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

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Mama, You Been on My Mind	No Longer, Orpheus	Refrangibility	The Bristol International Noder Meet
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