EXCERPTED

Verb

excerpted

simple past tense and past participle of excerpt

Adjective

excerpted (not comparable)

Consisting of excerpts.

Source: Wiktionary


EXCERPT

Ex*cerpt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excerpted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excerpting.] Etym: [From L. excerptus, p. p. See Excerp.]

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

Ex*cerp"t (277), n.

Definition: An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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UNSEASONED

(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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