Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

excerptive en · ADJ

Etymology

From excerpt + -ive.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That excerpts or selects.
    • For Communion, he retained the somewhat arbitrary and excerptive pre-Reformation pattern of unconnected Epistle and Gospel readings. 2009, Colin Buchanan, The A to Z of Anglicanism: