excern
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin excernō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)n/
Verb
excern (third-person singular simple present excerns, present participle excerning, simple past and past participle excerned)
- (archaic) excrete; give off
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
- 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.
- 1691, John Ray, The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation
- An unguent or pap prepared, with an open vessel to excern it into.
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Related terms
- excrete