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English Dictionary: excerpt	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
excerpt n a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings" Synonym(s): excerpt, excerption, extract, selection v take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy [syn: excerpt, extract, take out]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Excerpt \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Excerpt \Ex*cerp"t\ (277), n. An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.