Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go beyond proper limits; run to an extreme.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To run out or forth; to extend.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rare To
digress . - verb rare To pass beyond limits; to go to or towards an
extreme . - verb rare To take an
excursion .
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Examples
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Anyone interested in an excur sion should make reservations for dinner at Restaurant Lille Herbern, at Bygdo island (Oslo Fjord).
Oslo, Norway 2010
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Her cousin Laurana was always with her in these excur-sions, and sometimes
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Singing class, Winston Lodge, 167 ½ receipts excur.
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This was the first golfing excur-sion for both of them this year.
unknown title 2009
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If you are disposed for a little excur - flion into the countiy by way of variety, no one will be more glad to see you. —
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As to our hero, he so fully put on the charac - ter of a shipwrecked seaman, that in his first excur - sion he gained a very considerable booty, having likewise ingeniously imitated the passes and certifi - cates that were necessary for him to travel unmo - lested.
The surprising adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, king of the beggars, containing his life--a dictionary of the cant language and many entertaining particulars of that extraordinary man Goadby, Robert, 1721-1778 1812
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In these excur - sions, opportunities continually occurred for observing, and collecting information respecting, those objects which are inter - esting to adventurers into a new country, and which may be gratifying to the curios - ity of others.
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Longe excur -, rent R E rem bine inde germinans, f. rcd'uulas dem'ittens. —
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Afgha'n ufed frequently to make excur - fipns to the mountains; where. his progeny, after his death, eftablifhed themfelves, lived in a ftate of independence, buijt forts, and exter - piinated the Infidels.
Dissertations and Miscellaneous Pieces Relating to the History and Antiquities, the Arts ... William Jones, William Chambers, Warren Hastings 1792
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"Ricky saved the day with alarms and excur - sions without.
Ralestone Luck Norton, Andre 1938
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