Usually means: Digressions or detailed discussions within text.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. excursuses: Merriam-Webster
  2. excursuses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. excursuses: Collins English Dictionary
  4. excursuses: Vocabulary.com
  5. excursuses: Wiktionary
  6. excursuses: Dictionary.com
  7. excursuses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excursuses: Legal dictionary

(Note: See excursus as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (excursus)

noun:  A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book, especially a classic.
noun:  A narrative digression, especially to discuss a particular issue.
▸ Also see excursus


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