"excuss" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: excusses [present, singular, third-person], excussing [participle, present], excussed [participle, past], excussed [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excussus, past participle of excutere (“to shake off”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|excussus}} Latin excussus, {{m|la|excutio|excutere|to shake off}} excutere (“to shake off”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} excuss (third-person singular simple present excusses, present participle excussing, simple past and past participle excussed)
  1. (obsolete) To shake off. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-excuss-en-verb-xwh5SHCz
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To examine (a document). Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-excuss-en-verb-ZAHFoK3v
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To decipher. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-excuss-en-verb-0kpk4GJ8
  4. (transitive, law) To seize and detain by law. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-excuss-en-verb-HJIcuwsL Topics: law
  5. (law) To proceed against a principal debtor where there are either joint debtors or debtors and sureties. Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-excuss-en-verb-1hVfTiD0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 9 5 8 67 Topics: law
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: beneficium excussionis, excussion

Inflected forms

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