excerpt meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

excerpt

noun

UK /ˈɛɡzɜː(p)t/ · CA, US /ˈɛɡzɝ(p)t/

Etymology From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”).

A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.

verb

Etymology From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”).

To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey:

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