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Definition of Excelled
1. excel [v] - See also: excel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excelled
Literary usage of Excelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Bancroft's work in scientific thoroughness and philosophic grasp, and Prescott's
in the picturesque brilliancy of the narrative, while it excelled them both ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty, and as
Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has in judgment. ..."
3. Of the Origin and Progress of Language by James Burnett Monboddo (1792)
"He studied action and pronunciation very much) and excelled in it more than in
any other art. ... It does not appear that Cicero excelled in ..."
4. 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 (1890)
"... Progress" are not only charming reading, but are full of suggestions and
excelled advice. The same may be said of Stevens' " Around the World on a ..."
5. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. by James Boswell, Arnold Glover (1901)
"TO write the Life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others,
and who, whether we consider his extraordinary endowments, or his various ..."
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