Excursus Definition

ĭk-skûrsəs
excursuses
noun
excursuses
A detailed discussion of some point in a work, added as an appendix.
Webster's New World
A lengthy digression, as in a literary work.
Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary

A narrative digression, especially to discuss a particular issue.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:

Other Word Forms of Excursus

Noun

Singular:
excursus
Plural:
excursuses

Origin of Excursus

  • Latin from past participle of excurrere to run out excursion

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin excursus ‘excursion’.

    From Wiktionary

Excursus Sentence Examples

  • Hamilton encouraging the confusion by speaking of "psychology or metaphysics," 1 while his lectures on metaphysics are mainly taken up with what belongs in the strictest sense to psychology proper, with an occasional excursus (as in the theory of perception) into epistemology.

  • It may be appropriate to make a short excursus into Hume's examination of miracles.

  • His career may be studied in Hesiod; in the splendid Prometheus vinctus of Aeschylus, with the scholia; in Heyne's Apollodorus; in the excursus (I) of Schi zius to the Aeschylean drama, and in the frequently quoted work of Kuhn.

  • See Driver, Commentary on Genesis, excursus i.

  • In accordance with this we can give the relative positions of the various tribes, and an excursus on the rivers (47-57) lets us define their actual seats.

More Sentences

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to excursus using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

EEXEXC

Words Ending With

SUSSUS

Unscrambles

excursus

Words Starting With E and Ending With S

Starts With E & Ends With SStarts With EX & Ends With SStarts With E & Ends With US

Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With E8 Letter Words Ending With S