excursuses

Variant of excursus

noun pl. excursuses or excursus

  1. a detailed discussion of some point in a work, added as an appendix
  2. a lengthy digression, as in a literary work

Origin: L, a running forth, digression, pp. of excurrere: see excurrent

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