exect
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]See exsect.
Verb
[edit]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
References
[edit]“exect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.