v. rare. Also 7 excurre. [ad. L. excur-rĕre, f. ex- out + currĕre to run.]
† 1. intr. To go out of or beyond the ordinary or proper course or path; to digress; to go to an extreme. Obs.
1656. M. Casaubon, Enthus., iii. 80. Beyond which not to excurre … is my chiefest care.
1669. Flamsteed, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), II. 85. Thus far … this heat for the concerns of science hath caused me to excur.
1672. G. Harvey, Morb. Angl. (ed. 2), 47. His Disease was … an Asthma, oft excurring to an Orthopnœa.
2. U.S. (See quot.)
c. 1850. Nat. Encycl., I. 619. [Americanisms:] Excur, used as a verb in the sense of to take an excursion.
