excerptive

adj

excerptive

adj

Etymology From excerpt + -ive.

1

That excerpts or selects.

For Communion, he retained the somewhat arbitrary and excerptive pre-Reformation pattern of unconnected Epistle and Gospel readings.2009, Colin Buchanan, The A to Z of Anglicanism:

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