excerp

English

Etymology

From Latin excerpere, excerptum, from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, gather”). See harvest and compare scarce (adjective).

Verb

excerp (third-person singular simple present excerps, present participle excerping, simple past and past participle excerped)

1. (obsolete) To pick out.
   • 1659, Henry Hickman, Πατρο-σχολαστικο-δικαιωσις:

     If in that sentence which Mr Barlee hath excerped out of my letter, he can find the word reall, then I must necessarily either explain, or condemne my selfe

References

• “excerp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.