excern

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excerno.

Verb

excern (third-person singular simple present excerns, present participle excerning, simple past and past participle excerned)

  1. (archaic) excrete; give off
    • Francis Bacon's Natural History.
      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.
    • John Ray on the Creation.
      An unguent or pap prepared, with an open vessel to excern it into.
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