Definition of Excerpting

1. Verb. (present participle of excerpt) ¹

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Definition of Excerpting

1. excerpt [v] - See also: excerpt

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excerpting

excerable
excercise
excerebration
excerebrations
excern
excernent
excerp
excerped
excerping
excerps
excerpt
excerpta
excerpted
excerpter
excerpters
excerpting
excerption
excerptions
excerptive
excerptor
excerptors
excerpts
excess
excess annual growth
excess lactate
excess return
excessed
excesses
excessing
excessive

Literary usage of Excerpting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1896)
"... promise whatever cooperation our members should feel able and willing to give in the way of reading and excerpting printed matter for their dictionary. ..."

2. The Ancient Editions of Plautus by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1904)
"Nonius' copy of Plautus may have been not a single volume, but a collection of separate papyrus rolls; so that, in excerpting the plays composing the ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1875)
"The author reserved for himself the excerpting of the German journals and the arrangement of the whole, while the other journals are extracted by a corps of ..."

4. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1897)
"... scholars have given up the idea of publishing it in full, and have contented themselves with excerpting that which relates to each country or locality. ..."

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