excern
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]excern (third-person singular simple present excerns, present participle excerning, simple past and past participle excerned)
- (archaic) excrete; give off
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- 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.