Usually means: Digression in text for clarification.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word excursus:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. excursus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. excursus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. excursus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. excursus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. excursus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Excursus, excursus: Wordnik
  7. excursus: Wiktionary
  8. excursus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. excursus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Excursus, excursus: Dictionary.com
  11. Excursus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Excursus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. excursus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. excursus: Rhymezone
  15. Excursus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. excursus: Free Dictionary
  17. excursus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. excursus: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excursus: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excursus: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excursus: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (excursus)

noun:  A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book, especially a classic.
noun:  A narrative digression, especially to discuss a particular issue.

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