excern

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excernō.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪkˈsɜː(ɹ)n/

Verb

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

  1. (archaic) excrete; give off
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
      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.
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