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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[L.

excussus

. p. p. of

excutere

to shake off;

out, from +

quatere

to shake. Cf.

To shake off; to discard.

[R.]

excuss

the notation of a Geity out of their minds.

Bp. Stillingfleet.

To inspect; to investigate; to decipher.

[R.]

To take some pains in excusing some old monuments.

F. Junius (1654).

To seize and detain by law, as goods.

[Obs.]

Ayliffe.

Verb.

[L. excussus.] To shake off; also, to seize and detain by law. [Not used.]