excur

English

Etymology

From Latin excurro

Verb

excur (third-person singular simple present excurs, present participle excurring, simple past and past participle excurred)

(rare) To digress.
(rare) To pass beyond limits; to go to or towards an extreme.
(rare) To take an excursion.

References

“excur” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, Sixth Edition (1785)

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