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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



... was doubtless with a view to this result that Mr. Deane, when he expected to take his wine alone, would tell Tom to step in and sit with him an hour, and would pass that hour in much lecturing and catechising concerning articles of export and import, with an occasional excursus of more indirect utility on the relative advantages to the merchants of St. Ogg's of having goods brought in their own and in foreign bottoms,—a subject on which Mr. Deane, as a ship-owner, naturally threw off a few sparks when he got ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot



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



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