excerpt

Etymology

From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”).

noun

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

verb

1. (transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
   out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey