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Excursus

noun
1.
A message that departs from the main subject.  Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, parenthesis.





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"Excursus" Quotes from Famous Books



... leave to make a short excursus to the ancient Ophirs of Egypt Proper, where, we are told by an inscription in the treasury of Ramses the Great (fourteen centuries before Christ), the gold and silver mines yielded per annum a total of 32,000,000 mina L90,000,000. Dr. H. Brugsch-Bey first drew attention to Hamamat, where, ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton


Words linked to "Excursus" :   content, message, aside, parenthesis, subject matter, divagation, substance, digression


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