excursus's Usage Examples:

See Driver, Commentary on Genesis, excursus i.

It may be appropriate to make a short excursus into Hume's examination of miracles.

Everything he published in later life may be called a commentary, an excursus or a scholium to his main book; and many of them are decidedly of the nature of commonplace books or collectanea of notes.

In a special excursus of considerable length he has paid a tribute of the highest order to monachism, and in his characterization of Theodosius II.

His annotations on the Psalms are especially interesting for the polemical excursuses directed against the Christian interpretation.

with notes and excursuses chiefly on the chronology and organization of the empire).

In accordance with this we can give the relative positions of the various tribes, and an excursus on the rivers (47-57) lets us define their actual seats.

An edition covering the period from Solon to 403, with new notes and excursuses, was published by J.

"Everything he published in later life may be called a commentary, an excursus or a scholium to his main book; and many of them are decidedly of the nature of commonplace books or collectanea of notes.

Ethnographical and geographical excursuses are a special feature of the work.

, 1882), and Harnack's "excursus" in the German edition of this Tertull.

"An edition covering the period from Solon to 403, with new notes and excursuses, was published by J.

Hamilton encouraging the confusion by speaking of "psychology or metaphysics," 1 while his lectures on metaphysics are mainly taken up with what belongs in the strictest sense to psychology proper, with an occasional excursus (as in the theory of perception) into epistemology.

Synonyms:

message, aside, subject matter, divagation, parenthesis, substance, content, digression,

Antonyms:

unhappy, belief, unbelief, approval, disapproval,