Dictionary entry

Excerpt

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ex‐cerpt″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Excerpted; p. pr. & vb. n.Excerpting.] [From L. excerptus, p. p. See Excerp.] To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.

Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.