noun
- Plural of excerptor; people who select and extract passages or quotations from texts or documents.
Usage: Formal or academic usage; Rare in modern English
Examples
- Medieval excerptors carefully copied passages from classical texts into their manuscripts.
- The excerptors of the anthology chose the most memorable lines from each author.
- Early scholars served as excerptors, preserving important ideas through selective quotation.
- The excerptors' work helped distribute knowledge across monasteries and libraries.