Meanings of excursus in English

Be not I, but they, blamed for any error, obscurity or omission in my brief excursus.

For his description is not an excursus, but the end and aim of the whole work.

Followed by a lengthy excursus on dead relatives, lice, husbands lost at sea, and various other topics.

After this unhappy excursus the Reviewer proceeds to offer a most unintelligent estimate of the Great Recueil.

The construction is almost as severe; and the movement is unbroken from beginning to end, without excursus or digression.

After this historical excursus let us take up again the record of our hero's doings and sufferings in London.

But this is an excursus: I would that my hand were wielding a stout horsewhip rather than a pen!

Consideration of Godard's Swiss Protestant family history takes us into a fascinating excursus on the history of French religious intolerance.

This is not to say, of course, that the excursus in the second stage has been a loss and a defect.

With respect to the polemic excursus, of course, I chuckle over them most sympathetically, and then say how naughty they are!

This started an ethnological excursus on swineherds, and drew from Pinecoffin long tables showing the proportion per thousand of the caste in the Derajat.

The work contains what we may call prolegomena on each of the Four Books, and then excursus on the most difficult and disputed passages.

On Paul's style see Farrar's Excursus at the close of vol.

Excursus on The 'Athanasian' Creed .

Excursus on smallness of world.

21 Stuart, Commentary on the Apocalypse: Excursus upon ch.