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n. - A message that departs from the main subject.

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  • I might come home with a new gadget that you don't have and you'll decide its time to "excursus" your right to take my money.
  • "excursus" on Sordello's presumed effort to strike out a new form and method in poetic language.
  • Benedicti "but Mabillon added so much to it in the way of prefaces, notes, and" excursus "that it is justly accounted as his work.
  • He also has a separate excursus on Josephus' material on pp.56-62.
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