v. Obs. [ad. L. excerp-ĕre: see EXCERPT v.] = EXCERPT v. 1.

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1563–87.  Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 45/2. Of this Melito, Eusebius … excerpeth certeine places of his apologie.

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a. 1640.  Jackson, Creed, XI. xliv. Wks. XI. 311. Out of this tractate … himself had excerpt the two next foreprinted sermons.

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1697.  Molyneux, in Locke’s Lett. (1708), 241. If their lordships should think fit to excerp anything out of those papers.

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