excourse

Remodelled after course.^[1]

excourse (plural excourses)

1. Obsolete form of excurse.
   • [1520?], Salust, translated by Alexander Barclay, “How Iugurth Inuaded the Kyngdome of Adherball Yet Ones Agayne: […]”, in […] [T]he Famous Cronycle of the Warre / Which the Romayns Had agaynst Iugurth […], London: […] Rycharde Pynson […], →OCLC, folios xix, verso – xx, recto:

     [M]any other places he aſſayled and inuaded moꝛe ĩwardly in yͤ contrey by excourſes of his hoꝛſmen.

   • [c. 1550?], Polydore Vergil, anonymous translator, “The Sixth Booke […]”, in Henry Ellis, editor, Polydore Vergil’s English History, […] (Works of the Camden Society; 36), volume I (Containing the First Eight Books, […]), London: […] [F]or the Camden Society, by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, […], published 1846, →OCLC, pages 235–236:

     Then ensewed Duncanus and Maccabœus, a manne notorius for his wiccadnes and bowldnes, who bie plaine force entred on the kingdom; but, after this littel excourse, I will agayne drawe backe to mie purpose.

   • [1555], Edmonde [Bonner], “The Position or Declaration Concernyng the Sixte Article of the Crede, […]”, in A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, […], London: […] Ihon Cawodde, […], →OCLC, signature G, recto:

     The goyng furth of hym is from the father, the retourne of him is to the father: the excourſe of hym is euen to the belles, and the recourſe of him is vnto the ſeate of God.

     [original: Egreſſus eius a patre, regreſſus eius ad patrem, excurſus uſq; ad inferos, recurſus ad ſedem Dei.]