exect
English
Etymology
See exsect.
Verb
exect (third-person singular simple present exects, present participle execting, simple past and past participle exected)
- (transitive, obsolete) To cut off or out.
- 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
- the Office of the Spleen is of great importance, though it may be ſupplyed by other parts, in caſe it be diſeaſed, obſtructed, or exected
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References
exect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913