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excursus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun excursus has 1 sense
- excursus(n = noun.communication) aside, digression, divagation, parenthesis - a message that departs from the main subject; Array is a kind of content, message, subject matter, substance
CIDE DICTIONARY
excursus, n. [L., fr. excurrere, excursum. See Excurrent.].
A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
excursus, n.
1 a detailed discussion of a special point in a book, usu. in an appendix.
2 a digression in a narrative.
1 a detailed discussion of a special point in a book, usu. in an appendix.
2 a digression in a narrative.
Etymology
L, verbal noun formed as EXCURSION
ROGET THESAURUS
excursus
Dissertation
N dissertation, treatise, essay, thesis, theme, monograph, tract, tractate, tractation, discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect, excursus, commentary, review, critique, criticism, article, leader, leading article, editorial, running commentary, investigation, study, discussion, exposition, commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer, discursive, discoursive, disquisitionary, expository.
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