"excourse" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Remodelled after course.",
  "forms": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "[1520?], Salust, translated by Alexander Barclay, “How Iugurth Inuaded the Kyngdome of Adherball Yet Ones Agayne: […]”, in […] [T]he Famous Cronycle of the Warre / Which the Romayns Had agaynst Iugurth […], London: […] Rycharde Pynson […], →OCLC, folios xix, verso – xx, recto:",
          "text": "[M]any other places he aſſayled and inuaded moꝛe ĩwardly in yͤ contrey by excourſes of his hoꝛſmen.",
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          "ref": "[c. 1550?], Polydore Vergil, anonymous translator, “The Sixth Booke […]”, in Henry Ellis, editor, Polydore Vergil’s English History, […] (Works of the Camden Society; 36), volume I (Containing the First Eight Books, […]), London: […] [F]or the Camden Society, by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, […], published 1846, →OCLC, pages 235–236:",
          "text": "Then ensewed Duncanus and Maccabœus, a manne notorius for his wiccadnes and bowldnes, who bie plaine force entred on the kingdom; but, after this littel excourse, I will agayne drawe backe to mie purpose.",
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          "ref": "[1555], Edmonde [Bonner], “The Position or Declaration Concernyng the Sixte Article of the Crede, […]”, in A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, […], London: […] Ihon Cawodde, […], →OCLC, signature G, recto:",
          "text": "Egreſſus eius a patre, regreſſus eius ad patrem, excurſus uſq; ad inferos, recurſus ad ſedem Dei.",
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        "Obsolete form of excurse."
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{
  "etymology_text": "Remodelled after course.",
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          "ref": "[1520?], Salust, translated by Alexander Barclay, “How Iugurth Inuaded the Kyngdome of Adherball Yet Ones Agayne: […]”, in […] [T]he Famous Cronycle of the Warre / Which the Romayns Had agaynst Iugurth […], London: […] Rycharde Pynson […], →OCLC, folios xix, verso – xx, recto:",
          "text": "[M]any other places he aſſayled and inuaded moꝛe ĩwardly in yͤ contrey by excourſes of his hoꝛſmen.",
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          "ref": "[c. 1550?], Polydore Vergil, anonymous translator, “The Sixth Booke […]”, in Henry Ellis, editor, Polydore Vergil’s English History, […] (Works of the Camden Society; 36), volume I (Containing the First Eight Books, […]), London: […] [F]or the Camden Society, by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, […], published 1846, →OCLC, pages 235–236:",
          "text": "Then ensewed Duncanus and Maccabœus, a manne notorius for his wiccadnes and bowldnes, who bie plaine force entred on the kingdom; but, after this littel excourse, I will agayne drawe backe to mie purpose.",
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          "ref": "[1555], Edmonde [Bonner], “The Position or Declaration Concernyng the Sixte Article of the Crede, […]”, in A Profitable and Necessarye Doctryne, […], London: […] Ihon Cawodde, […], →OCLC, signature G, recto:",
          "text": "Egreſſus eius a patre, regreſſus eius ad patrem, excurſus uſq; ad inferos, recurſus ad ſedem Dei.",
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