Excerptive

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That excerpts or selects. not-comparable

    "For Communion, he retained the somewhat arbitrary and excerptive pre-Reformation pattern of unconnected Epistle and Gospel readings."

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"For Communion, he retained the somewhat arbitrary and excerptive pre-Reformation pattern of unconnected Epistle and Gospel readings."

Etymology

From excerpt + -ive.

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