excursus

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Up through May 2017 at Dia: Beacon is Excursus: Homage to the Square³, a reworking of a piece he first created for the foundation’s Chelsea space in 1998.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2015

And in this case, before news was brought to me of his death, I followed my customary practice, and in the course of three days compiled an Excursus in short chapters.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)

For instance, there is Dr. PEAGAM, the celebrated author of Indo-Hebraic Fairy Tales: a new Theory of their Rise and Development, with an Excursus on an Early Aryan Version of "Three Blind Mice."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891 by Various

On these resemblances, see Excursus iii. in the "Corpus Poeticum Boreale," vol. ii. p.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

The reader should by all means consult Bishop Lightfoot's Excursus in his Commentary on this Epistle, The Christian Ministry.

From Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)