Excerpt Definition
ĕksûrpt
excerpted, excerpts
noun
excerpts
A passage or sequence selected or quoted from a book, article, film, etc.; extract.
Webster's New World
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verb
excerpted, excerpts
To select, take out, or quote (passages from a book, sequences from a film, etc.); extract.
Webster's New World
To select or use material from (a longer work).
American Heritage
To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
Wiktionary
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Origin of Excerpt
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From Middle English excerpted from Latin excerptus past participle of excerpere to pick out ex- ex- carpere to pluck kerp- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”)
From Wiktionary
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