Word Meanings - EXCERPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXCERPT)

• Extract
• Draw
• educe
• elicit
• cite
• excerpt
• select
• take out
• gather
• quote
• collect
• extol

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXCERPT)

• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to EXCERPT)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• EXTOLMENT
  Praise. Shak.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• CONFOUNDEDLY
  Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• EXTRACT
  1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid
• SWEEPING
  Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping
• EXTOL
  1. To place on high; to lift up; to elevate. Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties. Beau. 2. To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a
• COLLECTORATE
  The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
• SWEEP-SAW
  A bow-saw.
• SWEEPY
  Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.
• EXCERPT
  To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• FELICITATE
  Made very happy. I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love. Shak.
• SEXTOLET
  A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
• BEQUOTE
  To quote constantly or with great frequency.
• SEDUCER
  One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.