different between excern vs excerp

English

Borrowed from Latin excern?.

excern (third-person singular simple present excerns, present participle excerning, simple past and past participle excerned)

(archaic) excrete; give off
- 1691, John Ray, The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation
  An unguent or pap prepared, with an open vessel to excern it into.

From Latin excerpere, excerptum, from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, gather”). See harvest and compare scarce (adjective).

excerp (third-person singular simple present excerps, present participle excerping, simple past and past participle excerped)

(obsolete) To pick out.
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