excuss

Meaning

Verb

To shake off.
To examine (a document).
To decipher.
To seize and detain by law.
To proceed against a principal debtor where there are either joint debtors or debtors and sureties.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin excussus, past participle of excutio.

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