Having been selected and extracted from a larger source; taken as a piece or passage from a whole work.
Past tense and participle form of 'excerpt,' from Latin excerpere. The -ed ending marks both the past tense verb and the adjectival form describing something that has undergone extraction.
When a quote goes 'viral' as an excerpted passage, people often miss the context—a problem that's ancient; medieval scribes worried about the same thing when excerpta were copied without their original frame.
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