English edit

Etymology edit

See exsect.

Verb edit

exect (third-person singular simple present exects, present participle execting, simple past and past participle exected)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To cut off or out.
    • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
      the Office of the Spleen is of great importance, though it may be ſupplyed by other parts, in caſe it be diſeaſed, obſtructed, or exected

References edit

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