excern
verb/ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)n/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin excernō.
1
Archaic excrete; give off
- That which is dead, or corrupted; or excerned, hath antipathy with the same thing when it is alive and sound, and with those parts which do excern.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- An unguent or pap prepared, with an open vessel to excern it into.1691, John Ray, The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation:
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