0 a detailed discussion or explanation of a subject, which is separate from the main subject that is being written or talked about:
Before discussing this a short historical excursus will be necessary to explain how it all came about.
There is a 14 page excursus to chapter 10 which directly discusses several "difficult texts."
The Marquis de Valady is a little-known participant in the French Revolution whose vegetarianism leads the author into an extended excursus on the bloody internecine struggles of that momentous event.
We hope that this short excursus into the Christian mind shows why freedom matters so much to us.
A more thorough study of his ideas could not ignore the theological excursuses.
Then follows a fourchapter excursus in the history of scientific accounts of time.
Chapter five is a brief excursus on the position of the verb stem within the complex.
In the midst of these concerns, he places an excursus on truth.
The case studies offered in support of a particular theoretical position frequently do not match up to the claims made about them in the preceding theoretical excursus.
