Excern

//ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)n// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    excrete; give off archaic

    "That which is dead, or corrupted; or excerned, hath antipathy with the same thing when it is alive and sound, and with those parts which do excern."

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"That which is dead, or corrupted; or excerned, hath antipathy with the same thing when it is alive and sound, and with those parts which do excern."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excernō.

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give off

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