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Excursus   Listen
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Excursus  n.  A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.





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"Excursus" Quotes from Famous Books



... Chapter II. Sec.Sec. 1-3 of the "Presuppositions", also the Third Chapter of the First Book (especially Section 6), also in the Second Book, Chapter I. and Chapter II. (under B), the Third Chapter (Supplement 3 and excursus on "Catholic and Romish"), the Fifth Chapter (under 1 and 3) and the Sixth Chapter (under 2) have been subjected to changes and greater additions. Finally, a new excursus has been added on the various modes of conceiving pre-existence, and ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack


Words linked to "Excursus" :   content, digression, parenthesis, substance


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