Antonyms for excursus


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ek-skur-suh s
Phonetic Transcription : ɛkˈskɜr səs


Definition of excursus

  • noun digression
Example sentences :
  • This is not to say, of course, that the excursus in the second stage has been a loss and a defect.
  • Extract from : « Pagan & Christian Creeds » by Edward Carpenter
  • Let us not at this moment go into an excursus to inquire who he was and who he was not.
  • Extract from : « Christmas Eve and Christmas Day » by Edward E. Hale
  • In an excursus we shall deal with the language of the Picts.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 » by Various
  • On the relations between Edessa and Rome see the end of the Excursus.
  • Extract from : « History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) » by Adolph Harnack
  • That would involve an excursus on Irish topography, which would be, to say the least, out of place.
  • Extract from : « St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh » by H. J. Lawlor
  • Write down the chorus to each line of Mr. S. Weller's song, and a sketch of the mottled-faced man's excursus on it.
  • Extract from : « Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 » by Various
  • An excursus upon Napoleon had got into the torrent somehow and kept bobbing up and down.
  • Extract from : « Kipps » by H. G. Wells
  • It is needless to extend further the present excursus on the origin and history of modern pseudo-science.
  • Extract from : « Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • Doubtless most of us have so styled him in relation to one excursus of his or another that has specially captivated us.
  • Extract from : « Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District » by Frederick Sessions
  • But call it a note or 'excursus,' which is the scholarlike name for notes a little longer than usual, and all will be made right.
  • Extract from : « The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) » by Thomas De Quincey

Synonyms for excursus

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