Excerp vs Excerpt - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between excerp and excerpt

is that excerp is to pick out while excerpt is to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media.

(en verb)

(obsolete) To pick out.

(Hales)

(Webster 1913)

(en noun)

a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media

To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

* Fuller

out of which we have excerpted the following particulars

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