excurse (third-person singular simple present excurses, present participle excursing, simple past and past participle excursed)
To journey or pass through.
To digress.
• excuser
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*curse", v. t. Etym: [See excurrent.]
Definition: To journey or pass thought. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 February 2025
(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain); “They breasted the mountain”; “Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
