EXACERB'ATE, verb transitive [Latin exacerbo, to irritate; ex and acerbo, from acerbus, severe, bitter, harsh, sour. See Harvest.]

1. To irritate; to exasperate; to inflame angry passions; to imbitter; to increase malignant qualities.

2. To increase the violence of a disease.

EXACERBA'TION, noun The act of exasperating; the irritation of angry or malignant passions or qualities; increase of malignity.

1. Among physicians, the increased violence of a disease; hence, a paroxysm, as in the return of an intermitting fever.

This term is more generally restricted to the periodical increase of remittent and continued fevers, where there is no absolute cessation of the fever.

2. Increased severity; as violent exacerbations of punishment. [Unusual.]

EXACERBES'CENCE, noun [Latin exacerbesco.] Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.

EXACT', adjective egzact'. [Latin exactus, from exigo, to drive; ex and ago. Gr. to drive, urge or press.]

1. Closely correct or regular; nice; accurate; conformed to rule; as a man exact in his dealings.

All this, exact to rule, were brought about.

2. Precise; not different in the least. This is the exact sum or amount, or the exact time.

We have an exact model for imitation.

3. Methodical; careful; not negligent; correct; observing strict method, rule or order. This man is very exact in keeping his accounts.

4. Punctual. Every man should be exact in paying his debts when due; he should be exact in attendance on appointments.

5. Strict. We should be exact in the performance of duties.

The exactest vigilance cannot maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.

EXACT', verb transitive egzact'. [Latin exigo, exactum. See the Adjective.]

1. To force or compel to pay or yield; to demand or require authoritatively; to extort by means of authority or without pity or justice. It is an offense for an officer to exact illegal or unreasonable fees. It is customary for conquerors to exact tribute or contributions from conquered countries.

2. To demand or right. Princes exact obedience of their subjects. The laws of God exact obedience from all men.

3. To demand of necessity; to enforce a yielding or compliance; or to enjoin with pressing urgency.

Duty,

And justice to my father's soul, exact

This cruel piety.

EXACT', verb intransitive To practice extortion.

The enemy shall not exact upon him. Psalms 89:22.

EXACT'ED, participle passive Demanded or required by authority; extorted.

EXACT'ING, participle present tense Demanding and compelling to pay or yield under color of authority; requiring authoritatively; demanding without pity or justice; extorting; compelling by necessity.

EXAC'TION, noun The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; authoritative demand; a levying or drawing from by force; a driving to compliance; as the exaction of tribute or of obedience.

1. Extortion; a wresting from one unjustly; the taking advantage of one's necessities, to compel him to pay illegal or exorbitant tribute, fees or rewards.

Take away your exactions from my people. Ezekiel 45:9.

2. That which is exacted; tribute, fees, rewards or contributions demanded or levied with severity or injustice. Kings may be enriched by exactions, but their power is weakened by the consequent disaffection of their subjects.

EXACT'ITUDE, noun Exactness. [Little used.]

EXACT'LY, adverb Precisely according to rule or measure; nicely; accurately. A tenon should be exactly fitted to the mortise.

1. Precisely according to fact. The story exactly accords with the fact or event.

2. Precisely according to principle, justice or right.

EXACT'NESS, noun Accuracy; nicety; precision; as, to make experiments with exactness

1. Regularity; careful conformity to law or rules of propriety; as exactness of deportment.

2. Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as exactness in accounts or business.

EXACT'OR, noun One who exacts; an officer who collects tribute, taxes or customs.

I will make thine officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. Isaiah 60:17.

1. An extortioner; one who compels another to pay more than is legal or reasonable; one who demands something without pity or regard to justice.

2. He that demands by authority; as an exactor of oaths.

3. One who is unreasonably severe in his injunctions or demands.

EXACT'RESS, noun A female who exacts or is severe in her injunctions.

EXAC'UATE, verb transitive [Latin exacuo.] To whet or sharpen. [Not in use.]

EXAG'GERATE, verb transitive [Latin exaggero; ex and aggero, to heap, from agger, a heap.]

1. To heap on; to accumulate. In this literal sense, it is seldom used; perhaps never.

2. To highthen; to enlarge beyond the truth; to amplify; to represent as greater than strict truth will warrant. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; a enemy exaggerates his vices or faults.

3. In painting, to highthen in coloring or design.

EXAG'GERATED, participle passive Enlarged beyond the truth.

EXAG'GERATING, participle present tense Enlarging or amplifying beyond the truth.

EXAGGERA'TION, noun A heaping together; heap; accumulation.

1. In rhetoric, amplification; a representation of things beyond the truth; hyperbolical representation, whether of good or evil.

2. In painting, a method of giving a representation of things too strong for the life.

EXAG'GERATORY, adjective Containing exaggeration.

EXAG'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin exagito.] To shake; to agitate; to reproach. [Little used.]

EXALT', verb transitive egzolt'. [Low Latin exalto; ex and altus, high.]

1. To raise high; to elevate.

2. To elevate in power, wealth, rank or dignity; as, to exalt one to a throne, to the chief magistracy, to a bishopric.

3. To elevate with joy or confidence; as, to be exalted with success or victory. [We now use elate.]

4. To raise with pride; to make undue pretensions to power, rank or estimation; to elevate too high or above others.

He that exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke 14:11. Matthew 23:12.

5. To elevate in estimation and praise; to magnify; to praise; to extol.

He is my father's God, and I will exalt him. Exodus 15:2.

6. To raise, as the voice; to raise in opposition. 2 Kings 19:22.

7. To elevate in diction or sentiment; to make sublime; as exalted strains.

8. In physics, to elevate; to purify; to subtilize; to refine; as, to exalt the juices or the qualities of bodies.

EXALTA'TION, noun The act of raising high.

1. Elevation to power, office, rank, dignity or excellence.

2. Elevated state; state of greatness or dignity.

I wondered at my flight, and change

To this high exaltation

3. In pharmacy, the refinement or subtilization of bodies or their qualities and virtues, or the increase of their strength.

4. In astrology, the dignity of a planet in which its powers are increased.

EXALT'ED, participle passive Raised to a lofty highth; elevated; honored with office or rank; extolled; magnified; refined; dignified; sublime.

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

EXALT'EDNESS, noun The state of being elevated.

1. Conceited dignity or greatness.

EXALT'ER, noun One who exalts or raises to dignity.

EXALT'ING, participle present tense Elevating; raising to an eminent station; praising; extolling; magnifying; refining.

EXA'MEN, noun egza'men. [Latin examen the tongue, needle or beam of a balance. It signifies also a swarm of bees.]

Examination; disquisition; enquiry. [Little used.]

EXAM'INABLE, adjective [See Examine.] That may be examined; proper for judicial examination or inquiry.

EXAM'INANT, noun One who is to be examined. [Not legitimate.]

EXAM'INATE, noun The person examined.

EXAMINA'TION, noun [Latin examinatio. See Examen.]

1. The act of examining; a careful search or inquiry, with a view to discover truth or the real state of things; careful and accurate inspection of a thing and its parts; as an examination of a house or a ship.

2. Mental inquiry; disquisition; careful consideration of the circumstances or facts which relate to a subject or question; a view of qualities and relations, and an estimate of their nature and importance.

3. Trial by a rule or law.

4. In judicial proceedings, a careful inquiry into facts by testimony; an attempt to ascertain truth by inquiries and interrogatories; as the examination of a witness or the merits of a cause.

5. In seminaries of learning, an inquiry into the acquisitions of the students, by questioning them in literature and the sciences, and by hearing their recitals.

6. In chimistry and other sciences, a searching for the nature and qualities of substances, by experiments; the practice or application of the docimastic art.

EXAM'INATOR, noun An examiner. [Not used.]

EXAM'INE, verb transitive egzam'in. [Latin examino, from examen.]

1. To inspect carefully, with a view to discover truth or the real state of a thing; as, to examine a ship to know whether she is sea-worthy, or a house to know whether repairs are wanted.

2. To search or inquire into facts and circumstances by interrogating; as, to examine a witness.

3. To look into the state of a subject; to view in all its aspects; to weigh arguments and compare facts, with a view to form a correct opinion or judgment. Let us examine this proposition; let us examine this subject in all its relations and bearing; let us examine into the state of this question.

4. To inquire into the improvements or qualifications of students, by interrogatories, proposing problems, or by hearing their recitals; as, to examine the classes in college; to examine the candidates for a degree, or for a license to preach or to practice in a profession.

5. To try or assay by experiments; as, to examine minerals.

6. To try by a rule or law.

Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith. 2 Corinthians 13:5.

7. In general, to search; to scrutinize; to explore, with a view to discover truth; as, to examine ourselves; to examine the extent of human knowledge.

EXAM'INED, participle passive Inquired into; searched; inspected; interrogated; tried by experiment.

EXAM'INER, noun One who examines, tries or inspects; one who interrogates a witness or an offender.

1. In chancery, in Great Britain, the Examiners are two officers of that court, who examine, on oath, the witnesses for the parties.

EXAM'INING, participle present tense Inspecting carefully; searching or inquiring into; interrogating; trying or assaying by experiment.

EX'AMPLARY, adjective [from example.] Serving for example or pattern; proposed for imitation. [It is now written exemplary.]

EXAM'PLE, noun egzam'pl. [Latin e xemplum.]

1. A pattern; a copy; a mode; that which is proposed to be imitated. This word, when applied to material things, is now generally written sample, as a sample of cloth; but example is sometimes used.

2. A pattern, in morals or manners; a copy, or model; that which is proposed or is proper to be imitated.

I have given you an example that you should do as I have done to you. John 13:15.

Example is our preceptor before we can reason.

3. Precedent; a former instance. Buonaparte furnished many examples of successful bravery.

4. Precedent or former instance, in a bad sense, intended for caution.

Lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Hebrews 4:11.

Sodom and Gomorrah--are set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude 1:7.

5. A person fit to be proposed for a pattern; one whose conduct is worthy of imitation.

Be thou an example of the believers. 1 Timothy 4:12.

6. Precedent which disposes to imitation.

Example has more effect than precept.

7. Instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept; or a particular case or proposition illustrating a general rule, position or truth. The principles of trigonometry and the rules of grammar are illustrated by examples.

8. In logic, or rhetoric, the conclusion of one singular point from another; an induction of what may happen from what has happened. If civil war has produced calamities of a particular kind in one instance, it is inferred that it will produce like consequences in other cases. This is an example

EXAM'PLE, verb transitive To exemplify; to set an example [Not used.

EXAM'PLELESS, adjective Having no example. [Not used.]

EXAM'PLER, noun A pattern; now sample or sampler.

EXAN'GUIOUS, adjective Having no blood. [Not used. See Exsanguious.]

EXAN'IMATE, adjective egzan'imate. [Latin exanimatus, exanimo; ex and anima, life.]

Lifeless; spiritless; disheartened; depressed in spirits.

EXAN'IMATE, verb transitive To dishearten; to discourage.

EXANIMA'TION, noun Deprivation of life or of spirits. [Little used.]

EXAN'IMOUS, adjective [Latin exanimis; ex and anima, life.]

Lifeless; dead. [Little used.]

EXAN'THEMA, noun plural exanthem'ata. [Gr. to blossom; a flower.]

Among physicians, eruption; a breaking out; pustules, petechiae, or vibices; any efflorescence on the skin, as in measles, small pox, scarlatina, etc.

This term is now limited by systematic nosologists, to such eruptions as are accompanied with fever.

EXANTHEMAT'IC

EXANTHEM'ATOUS, adjective Eruptive; efflorescent; noting morbid redness of the skin. The measles is an exanthematous disease. Tooke uses exanthematic

EXANTHEM'ATOUS, a. Eruptive; efflorescent; noting morbid redness of the skin. The measles is an exanthematous disease. Tooke uses exanthematic.

EXANT'LATE, verb transitive [Latin exantlo.] To draw out; to exhaust.

[Not used.]

EXANTLA'TION, noun The act of drawing out; exhaustion. [Not used.]

EXARA'TION, noun [Latin exaro; ex and aro.] The act of writing. [Not used.]

EX'ARCH, noun [Gr. a chief.] A prefect or governor under the eastern emperors. Also, a deputy or legate in the Greek church.

EX'ARCHATE, noun The office, dignity or administration of an exarch.

EXARTICULA'TION, noun [ex and articulation.] Luxation; the dislocation of a joint.

EX'ASPERATE, verb transitive [Latin exaspero, to irritate; ex and aspero, from asper, rough, harsh.]

1. To anger; to irritate to a high degree; to provoke to rage; to enrage; to excite anger, or to inflame it to an extreme degree. We say, to exasperate a person, or to exasperate the passion of anger or resentment.

2. To aggravate; to embitter; as, to exasperate enmity.

3. To augment violence; to increase malignity; to exacerbate; as, to exasperate pain or a part inflamed.

EX'ASPERATE, adjective Provoked; embittered; inflamed.

EX'ASPERATED, participle passive Highly angered or irritated; provoked; enraged; embittered; increased in violence.

EX'ASPERATER, noun One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity or violence.

EX'ASPERATING, participle present tense Exciting keen resentment; inflaming anger; irritating; increasing violence.

EXASPERA'TION, noun Irritation; the act of exciting violent anger; provocation.

1. Extreme degree of anger; violent passion.

2. Increase of violence or malignity; exacerbation.

EXAUC'TORATE

EXAUCTORA'TION

EXAU'THORATE, verb transitive [Latin exauctoro; ex and auctoro, to hire or bind, from auctor, author.]

To dismiss from service; to deprive of a benefice.

EXAUCTORA'TION

EXAU'THORATE, v.t. [L. exauctoro; ex and auctoro, to hire or bind, from auctor, author.]

To dismiss from service; to deprive of a benefice.

EXAUTHORA'TION, noun Dismission from service; deprivation; degradation; the removal of a person from an office or dignity in the church.

EXAU'THORIZE, verb transitive To deprive of authority.

EXCAL'CEATED, adjective [Latin excalceo, to pull off the shoes; ex and calceus, a shoe.]

Deprived of shoes; unshod; barefooted.

EXCANDES'CENCE, noun [Latin excandescentia, excandesco; ex and candesco, candeo, to glow or be hot, from caneo, to be white, to shine.]

1. A growing hot; or a white heat; glowing heat.

2. Heat of passion; violent anger; or a growing angry.

EXCANDES'CENT, adjective White with heat.

EXCANTA'TION, noun [Latin excanto, but with an opposite signification.]

Disenchantment by a countercharm. [Little used.]

EXC'ARNATE, verb transitive [Latin ex and caro, flesh.]

To deprive or clear of flesh.

EXCARNIFICA'TION, noun [Latin excarnifico, to cut in pieces, from caro, flesh.]

The act of cutting off flesh, or of depriving of flesh.

EX'CAVATE, verb transitive [Latin excavo; ex and cavo, to hollow, cavus, hollow. See Cave.]

To hollow; to cut, scoop, dig or wear out the inner part of any thing and make it hollow; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth; to excavate the trunk of a tree and form a canoe.

EX'CAVATED, participle passive Hollowed; make hollow.

EX'CAVATING, participle present tense Making hollow.

EXCAVA'TION, noun The act of making hollow, by cutting, wearing or scooping out the interior substance or part of a thing.

1. A hollow or a cavity formed by removing the interior substance. Many animals burrow in excavations of their own forming.

EX'CAVATOR, noun One who excavates.

EX'CECATE, verb transitive [Latin excoeco.] To make blind. [Not used.]

EXCECA'TION, noun The act of making blind.

EXCE'DENT, noun Excess. [Not authorized.]

EXCEE'D, verb transitive [Latin excedo; ex and cedo, to pass.

1. To pass or go beyond; to proceed beyond any given or supposed limit, measure or quantity, or beyond any thing else; used equally in a physical or moral sense. One piece of cloth exceeds the customary length or breadth; one man exceeds another in bulk, stature or weight; one offender exceeds another in villainy.

2. To surpass; to excel. Homer exceeded all men in epic poetry. Demosthenes and Cicero exceeded their contemporaries in oratory.

King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. l Kings.10.

EXCEE'D, verb intransitive To go too far; to pass the proper bounds; to go over any given limit, number or measure.

Forty stripes may he give him, and not exceed Deuteronomy 25:3.

1. To bear the greater proportion; to be more or larger.

[This verb is intransitive only by ellipsis.]

EXCEE'DABLE, adjective That may surmount or exceed.

EXCEE'DED, participle passive Excelled; surpassed; outdone.

EXCEE'DER, noun One who exceeds or passes the bounds of fitness.

EXCEE'DING, participle present tense Going beyond; surpassing; excelling; outdoing.

1. Great in extent, quantity or duration; very extensive.

Cities were built an exceeding space of time before the flood. [This sense is unusual.]

2. adverb In a very great degree; unusually; as exceeding rich.

The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea.

I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Genesis 15:1.

EXCEE'DING, noun Excess; superfluity.

EXCEE'DINGLY, adverb To a very great degree; in a degree beyond what is usual; greatly; very much.

Isaac trembled exceedingly Genesis 27:33.

EXCEE'DINGNESS, noun Greatness in quantity, extent or duration. [Not used.]

EXCEL', verb transitive [Latin excello, the root of which, cello, is not in use.

1. To go beyond; to exceed; to surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo.

EXCELling others, these were great;

Thou greater still, must these excel

Many daughters have done virtuously, but

thou excellest them all. Proverbs 31:29.

2. To exceed or go beyond in bad qualities or deeds.

3. To exceed; to surpass.

EXCEL', verb intransitive To have good qualities, or to perform meritorious actions, in an unusual degree; to be eminent, illustrious or distinguished.

Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength. Psalms 103:20.

We say, to excel in mathematics; to excel in painting; to excel in heroic achievements.

EXCEL'LED, participle passive Surpassed; outdone; exceeded in good qualities or laudable achievements.

EX'CELLENCE

EXCELLENCY, noun [Latin excellentia.] The state of possessing food qualities in an unusual or eminent degree; the state of excelling in any thing.

1. An valuabale quality; any thing highly laudable, meritorious or virtuous, in persons, or valuable and esteemed, in things. Purity of heart, uprightness of mind, sincerity, virtue, piety, are excellencies of character; symmetry of parts, strength and beauty are excellencies of body; an accurate knowledge of an art is an excellence in the artisan; soundness and durability are excellencies in timber; fertility, in land; elegance, in writing. In short, whatever contributes to exalt man, or to render him esteemed and happy, or to bless society, is in him an excellence

2. Dignity; high rank in the scale of beings. Angels are beings of more excellence than men; men are beings of more excellence than brutes.

3. A title of honor formerly given to kings and emperors, now given to embassadors, governors, and other persons, below the rank of kings, but elevated above the common classes of men.

EXCELLENCY, n. [L. excellentia.] The state of possessing food qualities in an unusual or eminent degree; the state of excelling in any thing.

EX'CELLENT, adjective Being of great virtue or worth; eminent or distinguished for what is amiable, valuable or laudable; as an excellent man or citizen; an excellent judge or magistrate.

1. Being of great value or use, applied to things; remarkable for good properties; as excellent timber; an excellent farm; an excellent horse; excellent fruit.

2. Distinguished for superior attainments; as an excellent artist.

3. Consummate; complete; in an ill sense.

Elizabeth was an excellent hypocrite.

EX'CELLENTLY, adverb In an excellent manner; well in a high degree; in an eminent degree; in a manner to please or command esteem, or to be useful.

EXCEPT', verb transitive [Latin excipio; ex and capio, to take. See Caption, Capture.]

1. To take or leave out of any number specified; to exclude; as, of the thirty persons present and concerned in a riot, we must except two.

2. To take or leave out any particular or particulars, from a general description.

When he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted who did put all things under him. 1 Corinthians 14:5.

EXCEPT', verb intransitive To object; to make an objection or objections; usually followed by to; sometimes by against. I except to a witness, or to his testimony, on account of his interest or partiality.

EXCEPT', participle passive Contracted from excepted. Taken out; not included. All were involved in this affair, except one; that is, one excepted, the case absolute or independent clause. except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish; that is, except this fact, that ye repent, or this fact being excepted, removed, taken away, ye shall all likewise perish. Or except may be considered as the imperative mode. except thou or ye, this fact, ye shall all likewise perish. Hence except is equivalent to without, unless, and denotes exclusion.

EXCEPT'ED, participle passive [See Except.]

EXCEPT'ING, participle present tense Taking or leaving out; excluding.

1. This word is also used in the sense of except, as above explained. The prisoners were all condemned, except in three. This is an anomalous use of the word, unless, in some cases, it may be referred to a pronoun. Excepted would be better: three excepted; three being excepted.

EXCEP'TION, noun The act of excepting, or excluding from a number designated, or from a description; exclusion. All the representatives voted for the bill, with the exception of five. All the land is in tillage, with an exception of two acres.

1. Exclusion from what is comprehended in a general rule or proposition.

2. That which is excepted, excluded, or separated from others in a general description; the person or thing specified as distinct or not included. Almost every general rule has its exceptions.

3. An objection; that which is or may be offered in opposition to a rule, proposition, statement or allegation; with to; sometimes with against. He made some exceptions to the argument.

4. Objection with dislike; offense; slight anger or resentment; with at, to or against, and commonly used with take; as, to take exception at a severe remark; to take exception to what was said.

Roderigo, thou hast taken against me an exception

But it is more generally followed by at.

5. In law, the denial of what is alleged and considered as valid by the other party, either in point of law or in pleading; or an allegation against the sufficiency of an answer. In law, it is a stop or stay to an action, and it is either dilatory or peremptory.

6. A saving clause in a writing.

Bill of exceptions, in law, is a statement of exceptions to evidence, filed by the party, and which the judge must sign or seal.

EXCEP'TIONABLE, adjective Liable to objection.

This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem.

EXCEP'TIOUS, adjective Peevish; disposed or apt to cavil, or take exceptions. [Little used.]

EXCEP'TIOUSNESS, noun Disposition to cavil.

EXCEPT'IVE, adjective Including an exception; as an exceptive preposition.

1. Making or being an exception.

EXCEPT'LESS, adjective Omitting all exception. [Not in use.]

EXCEPT'OR, noun One who objects, or makes exceptions.

EXCERN', verb transitive [Latin excerno; ex and cerno; Gr. to separate.]

To separate and emit through the pores, or through small passages of the body; to strain out; to excrete; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.

EXCERN'ED, participle passive Separated; excreted; emitted through the capillary vessels of the body.

EXCERN'ING, participle present tense Emitting through the small passages; excreting.

EXCERP', verb transitive [Latin excerpo.] To pick out. [Little used.]

EXCERPT', verb transitive [Latin excerpo; ex and carpo, to take.] To select. [Not used.]

EXCERP'TION, noun [Latin excerptio.] A picking out; a gleaning; selection. [Little used.]

1. That which is selected or gleaned. [Little used.]

EXCERP'TOR, noun A picker; a culler.

EXCERPTS', noun Extracts from authors. [A bad word.]

EXCESS', noun [Latin excessus, from excedo. See Exceed.]

1. Literally, that which exceeds any measure or limit, or which exceeds something else, or a going beyond a just line or point. Hence, superfluity; that which is beyond necessity or wants; as an excess of provisions; excess of light.

2. That which is beyond the common measure, proportion, or due quantity; as the excess of a limb; the excess of bile in the system.

3. Super abundance of any thing.

4. Any transgression of due limits.

5. In morals, any indulgence of appetite, passion or exertion, beyond the rules of God's word, or beyond any rule of propriety; intemperance in gratifications; as excess in eating or drinking; excess of joy; excess of grief; excess of love, or of anger; excess of labor.

6. In arithmetic and geometry, the difference between any two unequal numbers or quantities; that which remains when the lesser number or quantity is taken from the greater.

EXCESS'IVE, adjective Beyond any given degree, measure or limit, or beyond the common measure or proportion; as the excessive bulk of a man; excessive labor; excessive wages.

1. Beyond the established laws of morality and religion, or beyond the bounds of justice, fitness, propriety, expedience or utility; as excessive indulgence of any kind.

Excessive bail shall not be required.

2. Extravagant; unreasonable. His expenditures of money were excessive

3. Vehement; violent; as excessive passion.

EXCESS'IVELY, adverb In an extreme degree; beyond measure; exceedingly; as excessively impatient; excessively grieved.

1. Vehemently; violently; as, the wind blew excessively

EXCESS'IVENESS, noun The state or quality of being excessive; excess.

EXCHANGE, verb transitive

1. In commerce, to give one thing or commodity for another; to alienate or transfer the property of a thing and receive in compensation for it something of supposed equal value; to barter; and in vulgar language, to swap; to truck. It differs from sell, only in the kind of compensation. To sell is to alienate for money; to exchange is to alienate one commodity for another; as, to exchange horses; to exchange oxen for corn.

2. To lay aside, quit or resign one thing, state or condition, and take another in the place of it; as, to exchange a crown for a cowl; to exchange a throne for a cell or a hermitage; to exchange a life of ease for a life of toil.

3. To give and receive reciprocally; to give and receive in compensation the same thing.

EXCHANGE forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.

4. To give and receive the like thing; as to exchange thoughts; to exchange work; to exchange blows; to exchange prisoners.

It has with before the person receiving the thing given, and for before the equivalent. Will you exchange horses with me? Will you exchange your horse for mine?

EXCHANGE, noun In commerce, the act of giving one thing or commodity for another; barter; traffic by permutation, in which the thing received is supposed to be equivalent to the thing given.

Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses. Genesis 47:17.

1. The act of giving up or resigning one thing or state for another, without contract.

2. The act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as an exchange of thoughts; an exchange of civilities.

3. The contract by which one commodity is transferred to another for an equivalent commodity.

4. The thing given in return for something received; or the thing received in return for what is given.

There's my exchange

In ordinary business, this is called change.

5. The form of exchanging one debt or credit for another; or the receiving or paying of money in one place, for an equal sum in another, by order, draft or bill of exchange A in London is creditor to B in New York, and C in London owed D in New York a like sum. A in London draws a bill of exchange on B in New York; C in London purchases the bill, by which A receives his debt due from B in New York. C transmits the bill to D in New York, who receives the amount from B.

Bills of exchange drawn on persons in a foreign country, are called foreign bills of exchange; the like bills, drawn on persons in different parts or cities of the same country, are called inland bills of exchange

A bill of exchange is a mercantile contract in which four persons are primarily concerned.

6. In mercantile language, a bill drawn for money is called exchange instead of a bill of exchange

7. The course of exchange is the current price between two places, which is above or below par, or at par. exchange is at par, when a bill in New York for the payment of one hundred pounds sterling in London, can be purchased for one hundred pounds. If it can be purchased for less, exchange is under par. If the purchases is obliged to give more, exchange is above par.

8. In law, a mutual grant of equal interest, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple.

9. The place where the merchants, brokers and bankers of a city meet to transact business, at certain hours; often contracted into change.

EXCHANGEABIL'ITY, noun The quality or state of being exchangeable.

Though the law ought not to be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons.

EXCHANGEABLE, adjective That may be exchanged; capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.

The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of Gen. Howe.

Bank bills exchangeable for gold or silver.

EXCHANGED, participle passive Given or received for something else; bartered.

EXCHANGER, noun One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. Matthew 25:27.

EXCHANGING, participle present tense Giving and receiving one commodity for another; giving and receiving mutually; laying aside or relinquishing one thing or state for another.

EXCHEQ'UER, noun exchek'er.

In England, an ancient court of record, intended principally to collect and superintend the king's debts and duties or revenues, and so called from scaccharium, or from the same root, denoting a checkered cloth, which covers the table. In consists of two divisions: the receipt of the exchequer which manages the royal revenue; and the judicial part, which is divided into a court of law and a court of equity. The court of equity is held in the exchequer chamber, before the lord treasurer, the chancellor of the exchequer the chief baron and three inferior barons. The common law court is held before the barons, without the treasurer or chancellor.

Exchequer-bills, in England, bills for money, or promissory bills, issued from the exchequer; a species of paper currency emitted under the authority of the government and bearing interest.

EXCHEQ'UER, verb transitive To institute a process against a person in the court of exchequer

EXCI'SABLE, adjective s as z. Liable or subject to excise; as, coffee is an excisable commodity.

EXCI'SE, noun s as z. [Latin excisum, cut off, from excido.]

An inland duty or impost, laid on commodities consumed, or on the retail, which is the last state before consumption; as an excise on coffee, soap, candles, which a person consumes in his family. But many articles are excised at the manufactories, as spirit at the distillery, printed silks and linens at the printer's, etc.

EXCI'SE, verb transitive s as z. To lay or impose a duty on articles consumed, or in the hands of merchants, manufacturers and retailers; to levy an excise on.

EXCI'SED, participle passive Charged with the duty of excise.

EXCI'SEMAN, noun An officer who inspects commodities and rates the excise duty on them.

EXCI'SING, participle present tense Imposing the duty of excise.

EXCIS'ION, noun s as z. [Latin excisio.] In surgery, a cutting out or cutting off any part of the body; extirpation; amputation.

1. The cutting off of a person from his people; extirpation; destruction.

The rabbins reckon three kinds of excision

EXCITABIL'ITY, noun [from excite.] The quality of being capable of excitement; susceptibility of increased vital action by the force of stimulants.

EXCI'TABLE, adjective Having the quality of being susceptible of excitement; capable of increased action by the force of stimulants.

1. Capable of being excited, or roused into action.

EXCI'TANT, noun That which produces or may produce increased action in a living body; a stimulant.

EX'CITATE, verb transitive To excite. [Not in use.]

EXCITA'TION, noun The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing or awakening.

EXCI'TATIVE, adjective Having power to excite.

EXCI'TATORY, adjective Tending to excite; containing excitement.

EXCI'TE, verb transitive [Latin excito; ex and cito, to cite, to call or provoke.]

1. To rouse; to call into action; to animate; to stir up; to cause to act that which is dormant, stupid or inactive; as, to excite the spirits or courage.

2. To stimulate; to give new or increased action to; as, to excite the human system; to excite the bowels.

3. To raise; to create; to put in motion; as, to excite a mutiny or insurrection.

4. To rouse; to inflame; as, to excite the passions.

EXCI'TED, participle passive Roused; awakened; animated; put in motion; stimulated; inflamed.

EXCI'TEMENT, noun The act of exciting; stimulation.

1. The state of being roused into action, or of having increased action. Stimulants are intended to produce excitement in the animal system.

2. Agitation; a state of being roused into action; as an excitement of the people.

3. That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.

EXCI'TER, noun He or that which excites; he that puts in motion, or the cause which awakens and moves.

1. In medicine, a stimulant.

EXCI'TING, participle present tense Calling or rousing into action; stimulating.

Exciting causes, in medicine, are those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisponent causes.

EXCI'TING, noun Excitation.

EXCLA'IM, verb intransitive [Latin exclamo; ex and clamo, to cry out. See Claim, Clamor.]

1. To utter the voice with vehemence; to cry out; to make a loud outcry in words; as, to exclaim against oppression; to exclaim with wonder or astonishment; to exclaim with joy.

2. To declare with loud vociferation.

That thus you do exclaim you'll go with him.

EXCLA'IMER, noun One who cries out with vehemence; one who speaks with heat, passion or much noise; as an exclaimer against tyranny.

EXCLA'IMING, participle present tense Crying out; vociferating; speaking with heat or passion.

EXCLAMA'TION, noun Outcry; noisy talk; clamor; as exclamations against abuses in government.

1. Vehement vociferation.

Thus will I drown your exclamations.

2. Emphatical utterance; a vehement extension or elevation of voice; ecphonesis; as, O dismal night!

3. A note by which emphatical utterance or outcry is marked: thus!

4. In grammar, a word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing some passion, as wonder, fear or grief.

EXCLAM'ATORY, adjective Using exclamation; as an exclamatory speaker.

1. Containing or expressing exclamation; as an exclamatory phrase.

EXCLU'DE, verb transitive [Latin excludo; ex and claudo, to shut.] Properly, to thrust out or eject; but used as synonymous with preclude.

1. To thrust out; to eject; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.

2. To hinder from entering or admission; to shut out; as, one body excludes another from occupying the same space. The church ought to exclude immoral men from the communion.

3. To debar; to hinder from participation or enjoyment. European nations, in time of peace, exclude our merchants from the commerce of their colonies. In some of the states, no man who pays taxes is excluded from the privilege of voting for representatives.

4. To except; not to comprehend or include in a privilege, grant, proposition, argument, description, order, species, genus, etc. in a general sense.

EXCLU'DED, participle passive Thrust out; shut out; hindered or prohibited from entrance or admission; debarred; not included or comprehended.

EXCLU'DING, participle present tense Ejecting; hindering from entering; debarring; not comprehending.

EXCLU'SION, noun s as z. The act of excluding, or of thrusting out; ejection; as the exclusion of a fetus.

1. The act of denying entrance or admission; a shutting out.

2. The act of debarring from participation in a privilege, benefit, use or enjoyment.

3. Rejection; non-reception or admission, in a general sense.

4. Exception.

5. Ejection; that which is emitted or thrown out.

EXCLU'SIONIST, noun One who would preclude another from some privilege.

EXCLU'SIVE, adjective Having the power of preventing entrance; as exclusive bars.

1. Debarring from participation; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as an exclusive privilege.

2. Not taking into the account; not including or comprehending; as, the general had five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery and cavalry. He sent me all the numbers from 78 to 94 exclusive; that is, all the numbers between 78 and 94, but these numbers, the first and last, are excepted or not included.

EXCLU'SIVELY, adverb Without admission of others to participation; with the exclusion of all others; as, to enjoy a privilege exclusively

1. Without comprehension in an account or number; not inclusively.

EXCLU'SORY, adjective Exclusive; excluding; able to exclude. [Little used.]

EXCOCT', verb transitive [Latin excoctus.] To boil. [Not in used.]

EXCOG'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin excogito; ex and cogito, to think.]

To invent; to strike out by thinking; to contrive.

EXCOGITA'TION, noun Invention; contrivance; the act of devising in the thoughts.

EXCOMMU'NE, verb transitive To exclude. [Not used.]

EXCOMMU'NICABLE, adjective [See Excommunicate.] Liable or deserving to be excommunicated.

EXCOMMU'NICATE, verb transitive [Latin ex and communico.] To expel from communion; to eject from the communion of the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence, and deprive of spiritual advantages; as, to excommunicate notorious offenders.

EXCOMMU'NICATED, participle passive Expelled or separated from communion with a church, and a participation of its ordinances, rights and privileges.

EXCOMMU'NICATING, participle present tense Expelling from the communion of a church, and depriving of spiritual advantages, by an ecclesiastical sentence or decree.

EXCOMMUNICA'TION, noun The act of ejecting from a church; expulsion from the communion of a church, and deprivation of its rights, privileges and advantages; an ecclesiastical penalty or punishment inflicted on offenders. excommunication is an ecclesiastical interdict, of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension of the offender from partaking of the eucharist; the greater, is an absolute separation and exclusion of the offender from the church and all its rites and advantages.

EXCO'RIATE, verb transitive [Low Latin excorio; ex and corium, skin, hide.]

To flay; to strip or wear off the skin; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

EXCO'RIATED, participle passive Flayed; galled; stripped of skin or the cuticle; abraded.

EXCO'RIATING, participle present tense Flaying; galling; stripping of the cuticle.

EXCORIA'TION, noun The act of flaying, or the operation of wearing off the skin or cuticle; a galling; abrasion; the state of being galled or stripped of skin.

1. Plunder; the act of stripping of possessions. [Little used.]

EXCORTICA'TION, noun [Latin ex and cortex, bark.]

The act of stripping off bark.

EX'CREABLE, adjective That may be discharged by spitting. [Little used.]

EX'CREATE, verb transitive [Latin excreo, exscreo, to hawk and spit.]

To hawk and spit; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.

EXCREA'TION, noun A spitting out.

EX'CREMENT, noun [Latin excrementum, from excerno, excretus; ex and cerno, to separate.]

Matter excreted and ejected; that which is discharged from the animal body after digestion; alvine discharges.

EXCREMENT'AL, adjective Excreted or ejected by the natural passages of the body.

EXCREMENTI'TIAL, adjective Pertaining to or consisting in excrement.

EXCREMENTI'TIOUS, adjective Pertaining to excrement; containing excrement; consisting in matter evacuated or proper to be evacuated from the animal body.

EXCRES'CENCE, noun [Latin excrescens, from excresco; ex and cresco, to grow.] In surgery, a preternatural protuberance growing on any part of the body, as a wart or a tubercle; a superfluous part.

1. Any preternatural enlargement of a plant, like a wart or tumor; or something growing out from a plant.

2. A preternatural production.

EXCRES'CENT, adjective Growing out of something else, in a preternatural manner; superfluous; as a wart or tumor.

Expunge the whole or lop the excrescent parts.

EXCRE'TE, verb transitive [Latin excretus, infra.] To separate and throw off; to discharge; as, to excrete urine.

EXCRE'TION, noun [Latin excretio, from excerno, to separate.]

1. A separation of some fluid from the blood, by means of the glands; a throwing off or discharge of animal fluids from the body.

2. That which is excreted; fluids separated from the body by the glands and called excrement.

The term excretion is more usually applied to those secretions which are directly discharged from the body. It is also applied to the discharges from the bowels, which are called alvine excretions.

EX'CRETIVE, adjective Having the power of separating and ejecting fluid matter from the body.

Excretive faculty.

EX'CRETORY, adjective Having the quality of excreting or throwing off excrementitious matter by the glands.

EX'CRETORY, noun A little duct or vessel, destined to receive secreted fluids, and to excrete them; also, a secretory vessel.

The excretories are nothing but slender slips of the arteries, deriving an appropriated juice from the blood.

EXCRU'CIABLE, v. [infra.] Liable to torment. [Little used.]

EXCRU'CIATD, participle passive Tortured; racked; tormented.

EXCRU'CIATE, verb transitive [Latin excrucio; ex and crucio, to torment, from crux, a cross.] To torture; to torment; to inflict most severe pain on; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.

EXCRU'CIATING, participle present tense Torturing; tormenting; putting to most severe pain.

1. Extremely painful; distressing; as excruciating fears.

EXCUBA'TION, noun The act of watching all night. [Little used.]

EXCUL'PATE, verb transitive [Latin ex and culpo, to blame, culpa, fault.]

To clear by words from a charge or imputation of fault or guilt; to excuse. How naturally are we inclined to exculpate ourselves and throw the blame on others. Eve endeavored to exculpate herself for eating the forbidden fruit, and throw the blame on the serpent; Adam attempted to exculpate himself and throw the blame on Eve.

EXCUL'PATED, participle passive Cleared by words from the imputation of fault or guilt.

EXCUL'PATING, participle present tense Clearing by words from the charge of fault or crime.

EXCULPA'TION, noun The act of vindicating from a charge of fault or crime; excuse.

EXCUL'PATORY, adjective Able to clear from the charge of fault or guilt; excusing; containing excuse.

EXCUR'SION, noun [Latin excursio, excurso, from cursus, from curro, to run.]

1. A rambling; a deviating from a stated or settled path.

She in low numbers short excursions tries.

2. Progression beyond fixed limits; as, the excursions of the seasons into the extremes of heat and cold.

3. Digression; a wandering from a subject or main design.

4. An expedition or journey into a distant part; any rambling from a point or place, and return to the same point or place.

EXCUR'SIVE, adjective Rambling; wandering; deviating; as an excursive fancy or imagination.

EXCUR'SIVELY, adverb In a wandering manner.

EXCUR'SIVENESS, noun The act of wandering or of passing usual limits.

EXCU'SABLE, adjective s as z. [See Excuse.] That may be excused; pardonable; as, the man is excusable

1. Admitting of excuse or justification; as an excusable action.

EXCU'SABLENESS, noun s as z. The state of being excusable; pardonableness; the quality of admitting of excuse.

EXCUSA'TION, noun s as z. Excuse; apology. [Little used.]

EXCUSA'TOR, noun s as z. One who makes or is authorized to make an excuse or carry an apology.

EXCU'SATORY, adjective s as z. Making excuse; containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as an excusatory plea.

EXCU'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin excuso; ex and causor, to blame. See Cause.]

1. To pardon; to free from the imputation of fault or blame; to acquit of guilt. We excuse a person in our own minds, when we acquit him of guilt or blame; or we excuse him by a declaration of that acquital.

2. To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook. We excuse a fault, which admits of apology or extenuation; and we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.

3. To free from an obligation or duty.

I pray thee have me excused. Luke 14:18.

4. To remit; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.

5. To pardon; to admit an apology for.

Excuse some courtly strains.

6. To throw off an imputation by apology.

Think you that we excuse ourselves to you? 2 Corinthians 12:19.

7. To justify; to vindicate.

Their thoughts accusing or else excusing one another. Romans 2:1.

EXCU'SE, noun A plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology. Every man has an excuse to offer for his neglect of duty; the debtor makes excuses for delay of payment.

1. The act of excusing or apologizing.

2. That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault. His inability to comply with the request must be his excuse

EXCU'SELESS, adjective Having no excuse; that for which no excuse or apology can be offered. [Little used.]

EXCU'SER, noun s as z. One who offers excuses or pleads for another.

1. One who excuses or forgives another.

EXCU'SING, participle present tense s as z. Acquitting of guilt or fault; forgiving; overlooking.

EXCUSS', verb transitive [Latin excussus.] To shake off; also, to seize and detain by law. [Not used.]

EXCUS'SION, noun A seizing by law. [Not used.]

EX'ECRABLE, adjective [Latin execrabilis. See Execrate.]

Deserving to be cursed; very hateful; destable; abominable; as an execrable wretch.

EX'ECRABLY, adverb Cursedly; detestably.

EX'ECRATE, verb transitive [Latin execror, from ex and sacer, the primary sense of which is to separate. See Sacred.]

Literally, to curse; to denounce evil agianst, or to imprecate evil on; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.

EXECRA'TION, noun The act of cursing; a curse pronounced; imprecation of evil; utter detestation expressed.

Cease, gentle queen, these execrations:

EX'ECRATORY, noun A formulary of execration.

EXECT', verb transitive [Latin execo, for exseco.] To cut off or out; to cut away. [Little used.]

EXEC'TION, noun A cutting off or out. [Little used.]

EX'ECUTE, verb transitive [Latin exequor, for exsequor; ex and sequor, to follow. See Seek.]

1. Literally, to follow out or through. Hence, to perform; to do; to effect; to carry into complete effect; to complete; to finish. We execute a purpose, a plan, design or scheme; we execute a work undertaken, that is, we pursue it to the end.

2. To perform; to inflict; as, to execute judgment or vengeance.

3. To carry into effect; as, to execute law or justice.

4. To carry into effect the law, or the judgment or sentence on a person; to inflict capital punishment on; to put to death; as, to execute a traitor.

5. To kill.

6. To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to a writing, as by signing and sealing; as, to execute a deed or lease.

EX'ECUTE, verb intransitive To perform the proper office; to produce an effect.

EX'ECUTED, participle passive Done; performed; accomplished; carried into effect; put to death.

EX'ECUTER, noun One who performs or carries into effect. [See executor.]

EX'ECUTING, participle present tense Doing; performing; finishing; accomplishing; inflicting; carrying into effect.

EXECU'TION, noun Performance; the act of completing or accomplishing.

The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution

1. In law, the carrying into effect a sentence or judgment of court; the last act of the law in completing the process by which justice is to be done, by which the possession of land or debt, damages or cost, is obtained, or by which judicial punishment is inflicted.

2. The instrument, warrant or official order, by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect. An execution issues from the clerk of a court, and is levied by a sheriff, his deputy or a constable, on the estate, goods or body of the debtor.

3. The act of signing and sealing a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it a valid act; as the execution of a deed.

4. The last act of the law in the punishment of criminals; capital punishment; death inflicted according to the forms of law.

5. Effect; something done or accomplished.

Every shot did execution

6. Destruction; slaughter.

It is used after do, to do execution; never after make.

7. Performance, as in music or other art.

EXECU'TIONER, noun One who executes; one who carries into effect a judgment of death; one who inflicts a capital punishment in pursuance of a legal warrant. It is chiefly used in this sense.

1. He that kills; he that murders.

2. The instrument by which any thing is performed.

EXEC'UTIVE, adjective egzec'utive. Having the quality of executing or performing; as executive power or authority; an executive officer. Hence, in government, executive is used in distinction from legislative and judicial. The body that deliberates and enacts laws, is legislative; the body that judges, or applies the laws to particular cases, is judicial; the body or person who carries the laws into effect, or superintends the enforcement of them, is executive

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

EXEC'UTIVE, noun The officer, whether king, president or other chief magistrate, who superintends the execution of the laws; the person who administers the government; executive power or authority in government.

Men most desirous of places in the executive gift, will not expect to be gratified, except by their support of the executive

EXEC'UTOR, noun The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see it carried into effect.

EXECUTO'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to an executor; executive.

EXEC'UTORSHIP, noun The office of an executor.

EXEC'UTORY, adjective Performing official duties.

1. In law, to be executed or carried into effect in future; to take effect on a future contingency; as an executory devise or remainder.

EXEC'UTRESS

EXEC'UTRIX, noun A female executor; a woman appointed by a testator to execute his will. [The latter word is generally used.]

EXEC'UTRIX, n. A female executor; a woman appointed by a testator to execute his will. [The latter word is generally used.]

EXEGE'SIS, noun [Gr. to explain, to lead.]

1. Exposition; explanation; interpretation.

2. A discourse intended to explain or illustrate a subject.

EXEGET'ICAL, adjective Explanatory; tending to unfold or illustrate; expository.

EXEGET'ICALLY, adverb By way of explanation.

EXEM'PLAR, noun egzem'plar. [Latin See Example.]

1. A model, original or pattern, to be copies or imitated.

2. The idea or image of a thing, formed in the mind or an artist, by which he conducts his work; the ideal model which he attempts to imitate.

EX'EMPLARILY, adverb In a manner to deserve imitation; in a worthy or excellent manner.

She is exemplarily loyal.

1. In a manner that may warn others, by way of terror; in such

a manner that others may be cautioned to avoid an evil; or in a manner intended to warn others.

Some he punished exemplarily in this world.

EX'EMPLARINESS, noun The state or quality of being a pattern for imitation.

EX'EMPLARY, adjective [from exemplar.] Serving for a pattern or model for imitation; worthy of imitation. The christian should be exemplary in his life, as well as correct in his doctrines.

1. Such as may serve for a warning to others; such as may deter from crimes or vices; as exemplary justice; exemplary punishment.

2. Such as may attract notice and imitation.

When any duty has fallen into general neglect, the most visible and exemplary performance is required.

3. Illustrating.

EXEMPLIFICA'TION, noun [from exemplify.]

1. The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.

2. A copy; a transcript; an attested copy; as an exemplification of a deed, or of letters patent.

EXEM'PLIFIED, participle passive Illustrated by example or copy.

EXEM'PLIFIER, noun One that exemplifies by following a pattern.

EXEM'PLIFY, verb transitive egzem'plify. [from exemplar; Low Latin exemplo.]

1. To show or illustrate by example. The life and conversation of our Savior exemplified his doctrines and precepts.

2. To copy; to transcribe; to take an attested copy.

3. To prove or show by an attested copy.

EXEM'PLIFYING, participle present tense Illustrating by example; transcribing; taking an attested copy; proving by an attested copy.

EXEMPT', verb transitive egzemt' [Latin eximo, exemptus; ex and emo, to take.]

Literally, to take out or from; hence, to free, or permit to be free, from any charge, burden, restraint, duty, evil or requisition, to which others are subject; to privilege; to grant immunity from. Officers and students of colleges are exempted from military duty. No man is exempted from pain and suffering. The laws of God exempt no man from the obligation to obedience.

Certain abbeys claimed to be exempted from the jurisdiction of their bishops.

EXEMPT', adjective Free from any service, charge, burden, tax, duty, evil or requisition, to which others are subject; not subject; not liable to; as, to be exempt from military duty, or from a poll tax; to be exempt from pain or fear. Peers in G. Britain are exempt from serving on inquests.

1. Free by privilege; as exempt from the jurisdiction of a lord or of a court.

2. Free; clear; not included.

3. Cut off from. [Not used.]

EXEMPT', noun One who is exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

EXEMPT'ED, participle passive Freed from charge, duty, tax or evils, to which others are subject; privileged; not subjected.

EXEMPT'IBLE, adjective Free; privileged. [Not in use.]

EXEMPT'ING, participle present tense Freeing from charge, duty, tax or evil; granting immunity to.

EXEMP'TION, noun The act of exempting; the state of being exempt.

1. Freedom from any service, charge, burden, tax, evil or requisition, to which others are subject; immunity; privilege. Many cities of Europe purchased or obtained exemptions from feudal servitude. No man can claim an exemption from pain, sorrow or death.

EXEMPTI'TIOUS, adjective Separable; that may be taken from. [Not used.]

EXEN'TERATE, verb transitive [Latin exentero; ex and Gr. entrails.]

To take out the bowels or entrails; to embowel.

EXENTERA'TION, noun The act of taking out the bowels.

EXEQUA'TUR, noun [Latin] A written recognition of a person in the character of consul or commercial agent, issued by the government, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the country.

EXE'QUIAL, adjective [Latin exequialis.] Pertaining to funerals.

EX'EQUIES, noun plural [Latin exequioe, from exequor, that is, exsequor, to follow.]

Funeral rites; the ceremonies of burial; funeral procession.

EXER'CENT, adjective [Latin exercens. See Exercise.] Using; practicing; following; as a calling or profession. [Little used.]

EX'ERCISABLE, adjective s as z. That may be exercised, used, employed or exerted.

EX'ERCISE, noun s as z. [Latin exercitium, from exerceo; Eng. work.]

In a general sense, any kind of work, labor or exertion of body. Hence,

1. Use; practice; the exertions and movements customary in the performance of business; as the exercise of an art, trade, occupation, or profession.

2. Practice; performance; as the exercise of religion.

3. Use; employment; exertion; as the exercise of the eyes or of the senses, or of any power of body or mind.

4. Exertion of the body, as conducive to health; action; motion, by labor, walking, riding, or other exertion.

The wise for cure on exercise depend.

5. Exertion of the body for amusement, or for instruction; the habitual use of the limbs for acquiring an art, dexterity, or grace, as in fencing, dancing, riding; or the exertion of the muscles for invigorating the body.

6. Exertion of the body and mind or faculties for improvement, as in oratory, in painting or statuary.

7. Use or practice to acquire skill; preparatory practice. Military exercises consist in using arms, in motions, marches and evolutions. Naval exercise consists in the use or management of artillery, and in the evolutions of fleets.

8. Exertion of the mind; application of the mental powers.

9. Task; that which is appointed for one to perform.

10. Act of divine worship.

11. A lesson or example for practice.

EX'ERCISE, verb transitive [Latin exerceo.]

1. In a general sense, to move; to exert; to cause to act, in any manner; as, to exercise the body or the hands; to exercise the mind, the powers of the mind, the reason or judgment.

2. To use; to exert; as, to exercise authority or power.

3. To use for improvement in skill; as, to exercise arms.

4. To exert one's powers or strength; to practice habitually; as, to exercise one's self in speaking or music.

5. To practice; to perform the duties of; as, to exercise an office.

6. To train to use; to discipline; to cause to perform certain acts, as preparatory to service; as, to exercise troops.

7. To task; to keep employed; to use efforts.

Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense towards God and men. Acts 24:16.

8. To use; to employ.

9. To busy; to keep busy in action, exertion or employment.

10. To pain or afflict; to give anxiety to; to make uneasy.

EX'ERCISE, verb intransitive To use action or exertion; as, to exercise for health or amusement.

EX'ERCISED, participle passive Exerted; used; trained; disciplined; accustomed; made skillful by use; employed; practiced; pained; afflicted; rendered uneasy.

EX'ERCISER, noun One who exercises.

EX'ERCISING, participle present tense Exerting; using; employing; training; practicing.

EXERCITA'TION, noun [Latin exercitatio, from exerceo. See Exercise.]

Exercise; practice; use.

EXER'GUE, noun [Gr. work.] A little space around or without the figures of a medal, left for the inscription, cipher, device, date, etc.

EXERT', verb transitive egzert'. [Latin exero, for exsero; ex and sero, to throw, to thrust, for this is the radical sense of sero.]

1. Literally, to thrust forth; to emit; to push out.

Before the gems exert

Their feeble heads.

[An unusual application.]

2. To bring out; to cause to come forth; to produce. But more generally,

3. To put or thrust forth, as strength, force or ability; to strain; to put in action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body or limbs; to exert efforts; to exert powers or faculties; to exert the mind.

4. To put forth; to do or perform.

When the will has exerted an act of command

on any faculty of the soul.

To exert one's self, is to use efforts; to strive.

EXERT'ED, participle passive Thrust or pushed forth; put in action.

EXERT'ING, participle present tense Putting forth; putting in action.

EXER'TION, noun The act of exerting or straining; the act of putting into motion or action; effort; a striving or struggling; as an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs, of the mind or faculties. The ship was saved by great exertions of the crew. No exertions will suppress a vice which great men countenance.

EXE'SION, noun s as z. [Latin exesus, exedo; ex and edo, to eat.]

The act of eating out or through. [Little used.]

EXESTUA'TION, noun [Latin exoestuatio; ex and oestuo, to boil.]

A boiling; ebullition; agitation caused by heat; effervescence.

EXFO'LIATE, verb intransitive [Latin exfolio; ex and folium, a leaf.]

In surgery and mineralogy, to separate and come off in scales, as pieces of carious bone; to scale off, as the lamins of a mineral.

EXFO'LIATED, participle passive Separated in thin scales, as a carious bone.

EXFO'LIATING, participle present tense Separating and coming off in scales.

EXFOLIA'TION, noun The scaling of a bone; the process of separating, as pieces of unsound bone from the sound part; desquamation.

EXFO'LIATIVE, adjective That has the power of causing exfoliation or the desquamation of a bone.

EXFO'LIATIVE, noun That which has the power or quality of procuring exfoliation.

EXHA'LABLE, adjective [See Exhale.] That may be exhaled or evaporated.

EXHALA'TION, noun [Latin exhalatio. See Exhale.]

1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth fluids in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.

2. That which is exhaled; that which is emitted, or which rises in the form of vapor; fume or steam; effluvia. Exhalations are visible or invisible. The earth is often dried by evaporation, without visible exhalations. The smell of fragrant plants is caused by invisible exhalations.

EXHA'LE, verb transitive egzha'le. [Latin exhalo; ex and halo, to breathe, to send forth vapor.]

1. To send out; to emit; as vapor, or minute particles of a fluid or other substance. The rose exhales a fragrant odor. The earth exhales vapor. Marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

2. To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor or minute particles; to evaporate. The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.

EXHA'LED, participle passive Sent out; emitted, as vapor; evaporated.

EXHA'LEMENT, noun Matter exhaled; vapor.

EXHA'LING, participle present tense Sending or drawing out in vapor of effluvia.

EXHAUST', verb transitive egzhaust'. [Latin exhaurio, exhaustum; ex and haurio, to draw.]

1. To draw out or drain off the whole of any thing; to draw out, till nothing of the matter drawn is left. We exhaust the water in a well, by drawing or pumping; the water of a marsh is exhausted by draining; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

2. To empty by drawing out the contents. Venesection may exhaust the veins and arteries.

3. To draw out or to use and expend the whole; to consume. The treasures of the prince were exhausted; his means or his resources were exhausted. The strength or fertility of land may be exhausted.

4. To use or expend the whole by exertion; as, to exhaust the strength or spirits; to exhaust one's patience. Hence this phrase is equivalent to tire, weary, fatigue.

EXHAUST', adjective Drained; exhausted. [Little used.]

EXHAUST'ED, participle passive Drawn out; drained off; emptied by drawing, draining or evaporation; wholly used or expended; consumed.

EXHAUST'ER, noun He or that which exhausts or draws out.

EXHAUST'IBLE, adjective That may be exhausted or drained off.

EXHAUST'ING, participle present tense Drawing out; draining off; emptying; using or expending the whole; consuming.

1. Tending to exhaust; as exhausting labor.

EXHAUST'ION, noun The act of drawing out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.

1. The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.

2. In mathematics, a method of proving the equality of two magnitudes by a reductio ad absurdum, or showing that if one is supposed either greater or less than the other, there will arise a contradiction.

EXHAUST'LESS, adjective Not to be exhausted; not to be wholly drawn off or emptied; inexhaustible; as an exhaustless fund or store.

EXHAUST'MENT, noun Exhaustion; drain.

EXHER'EDATE, verb transitive [infra.] To disinherit.

EXHEREDA'TION, noun [Latin exhoeredatio, exhoeredo; ex and hoeres, an heir.]

In the civil law, a disinheriting; a father's excluding a child from inheriting any part of his estate.

EXHIBIT, verb transitive egzhib'it. [Latin e xhibeo; ex and habeo, to have or hold, as we say, to hold out or forth.]

1. To offer or present to view; to present for inspection; to show; as, to exhibit painting or other specimens of art; to exhibit papers or documents in court.

2. To show; to display; to manifest publicly; as, to exhibit a noble example of bravery or generosity.

3. To present; to offer publicly or officially; as, to exhibit a charge of high treason.

EXHIB'IT, noun Any paper produced or presented to a court or to auditors, referees or arbitrators, as a voucher, or in proof of facts; a voucher or document produced.

1. In chancery, a deed or writing produced in court, sworn to by a witness, and a certificate of the oath indorsed on it by the examiner or commissioner.

EXHIB'ITED, participle passive Offered to view; presented for inspection; shown; displayed.

EXHIB'ITER, noun One who exhibits; one who presents a petition or charge.

EXHIB'ITING, participle present tense Offering to view; presenting; showing; displaying.

EXHIBI'TION, noun [Latin exhibitio.] The act of exhibiting for inspection; a showing or presenting to view; display.

1. The offering, producing or showing of titles, authorities or papers of any kind before a tribunal, in proof of facts.

2. Public show; representation of feats or actions in public; display of oratory in public; any public show.

3. Allowance of meat and drink; pension; salary; benefaction settled for the maintenance of scholars in universities, not depending on the foundation.

4. Payment; recompense.

EXHIBI'TIONER, noun In English universities; one who has a pension or allowance, granted for the encouragement of learning.

EXHIB'ITIVE, adjective Serving for exhibition; representative.

EXHIB'ITIVELY, adverb By representation.

EXHIB'ITORY, adjective Exhibiting; showing; displaying.

EXHIL'ARATE, verb transitive egzhil'arate. [Latin exhilaro; ex and hilaro, to make merry, hilaris, merry, jovial.]

To make cheerful or merry; to enliven; to make glad or joyous; to gladden; to cheer. Good news exhilarates the mind, as good wine exhilarates the animal spirits.

EXHIL'ARATE, verb intransitive To become cheerful or joyous.

EXHIL'ARATED, participle passive Enlivened; animated; ; cheered; gladdened; made joyous or jovial.

EXHIL'ARATING, participle present tense Enlivening; giving life and vigor to the spirits; cheering; gladdening.

EXHILARA'TION, noun The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful.

1. The state of being enlivened or cheerful. exhilaration usually expresses less than joy or mirth, but it may be used to express both.

EXHORT', verb transitive egzhort'. [Latin exhortor; ex and hortor, to encourage, to embolden, to cheer, to advise. The primary sense seems to be to excite or to give strength, spirit or courage.]

1. To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments to a good deed or to any laudable conduct or course of action.

I exhort you to be of good cheer. Acts 27:22.

Young men also exhort to be sober minded.

EXHORT servants to be obedient to their masters. Titus 2:6.

2. To advise; to warn; to caution.

3. To incite or stimulate to exertion.

EXHORT', verb intransitive To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.

And with many other words did he testify and exhort Acts 2:40.

EXHORTA'TION, noun The act or practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.

1. The form of words intended to incite and encourage.

2. Advice; counsel.

EXHORT'ATIVE, adjective Containing exhortation.

EXHORT'ATORY, adjective Tending to exhort; serving for exhortation.

EXHORT'ED, participle passive Incited by words to good deeds; animated to a laudable course of conduct; advised.

EXHORT'ER, noun One who exhorts or encourages.

EXHORT'ING, participle present tense Inciting to good deeds by words or arguments; encouraging; counseling.

EXHUMA'TION, noun [Latin ex and humus, ground.]

1. The digging up a dead body interred; the disinterring of a corpse.

2. The digging up of any thing buried.

EXICCATE, EXICCATION. [See Exsiccate.]

EXICCATE, EXICCATION [See Exsiccate.]

EX'IGENCE

EX'IGENCY, noun [Latin exigens from exigo, to exact; ex and ago, to drive.]

1. Demand; urgency; urgent need or want. We speak of the exigence of the case; the exigence of the times, or of business.

2. Pressing necessity; distress; any case which demands immediate action, supply or remedy. A wise man adapts his measures to his exigencies. In the present exigency, no time is to be lost.

EX'IGENCY, n. [L. exigens from exigo, to exact; ex and ago, to drive.]

EXI'GENT, noun Pressing business; occasion that calls for immediate help. [Not used.] See Exigence.]

1. In law, a writ which lies where the defendant is not to be found, or after a return of non est inventus on former writs; the exigent or exigi facias then issues, which requires the sheriff to cause the defendant to be proclaimed or exacted, in five county courts successively, to render himself; and if he does not, he is outlawed.

2. End; extremity. [Not used.]

EX'IGENTER, noun An officer in the court of Common Pleas in England who makes out exigents and proclamations, in cases of outlawry.

EX'IGIBLE, adjective [See Exigence.] That may be exacted; demandable; requirable.

EXIGU'ITY, noun [Latin exiguitas.] Smallness; slenderness. [Little used.]

EXIG'UOUS, adjective [Latin exiguus.] Small; slender; minute; diminutive. [Little used.]

EX'ILE, noun eg'zile. [Latin exilium, exul; The word is probably compounded of ex and a root in Sl, signifying to depart, or cut off, to separate, or the thrust away, perhaps Latin salio.]

1. Banishment; the state of being expelled from one's native country or place of residence by authority, and forbid to return, either for a limited time or for perpetuity.

2. An abandonment of one's country, or removal to a foreign country for residence, through fear, disgust or resentment, or for any cause distinct from business, is called a voluntary exile as is also a separation from one's country and friends by distress or necessity.

3. The person banished, or expelled from his country by authority; also, one who abandons his country and resides in another; or one who is separated from his country and friends by necessity.

EX'ILE, verb transitive To banish, as a person from his country or from a particular jurisdiction by authority, with a prohibition of return; to drive away, expel or transport from one's country.

1. To drive from one's country by misfortune, necessity or distress.

To exile one's self, is to quit one's country with a view not to return

EX'ILE, adjective eg'zil, [Latin exilis.] Slender; thin; fine.

EX'ILED, participle passive Banished; expelled from one's country by authority.

EX'ILEMENT, noun Banishment.

EX'ILING, participle present tense Banishing; expelling from one's country by law, edict or sentence; voluntarily departing from one's country, and residing in another.

EXILI'TION, noun [Latin exilio, for exsalio, to leap out.]

A sudden springing or leaping out. [Little used.]

EXIL'ITY, noun [Latin exilitas.] Slenderness; fineness; thinness.

EXIM'IOUS, adjective [Latin eximius.] Excellent. [Little used.]

EXIN'ANITE, verb transitive [Latin exinanio.] To make empty; to weaken. [Not used.]

EXINANI'TION, noun [Latin exinanitio, from exinanio, to empty or evacuate; ex and inanio, to empty, inanis, empty, void.]

An emptying or evacuation; hence, privation; loss; destitution. [Little used.]

EXIST', verb intransitive egzist'. [Latin existo; ex and sisto, or more directly from Gr. to set, place or fix; Latin sto, to stand. The primary sense is to set, fix or be fixed, whence the sense of permanence, continuance.]

1. To be; to have an essence or real being; applicable to matter or body, and to spiritual substances. A supreme being and first cause of all other beings must have existed from eternity, for no being can have created himself.

2. To live; to have life or animation. Men cannot exist in water, nor fishes on land.

3. To remain; to endure; to continue in being. How long shall national enmities exist?

EXIST'ENCE, noun The state of being or having essence; as the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence; temporal existence

1. Life; animation.

2. Continued being; duration; continuation. We speak of the existence of troubles or calamities, or of happiness. During the existence of national calamities, our pious ancestors always had recourse to prayer for divine aid.

EXIST'ENT, adjective Being; having being, essence or existence.

The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent

EXISTEN'TIAL, adjective Having existence.

EX'IT, noun [Latin the 3d person of exeo, to go out.] Literally, he goes out or departs. Hence,

1. The departure of a player from the state, when he has performed his part. This is also a term set in a play, to mark the time of an actor's quitting the state.

2. Any departure; the act of quitting the state of action or of life; death; decease.

3. A way of departure; passage out of a place.

4. A going out; departure.

EXI'TIAL

EXITIOUS, adjective [Latin exitialis.] Destructive to a life.

EXITIOUS, a. [L. exitialis.] Destructive to a life.

EX'ODE, noun [Gr. See Exodus.] In the Greek drama, the concluding part of a play, or the part which comprehends all that is said after the last interlude.

EX'ODUS

EX'ODY, noun [Gr. way.] Departure from a place; particularly, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses.

1. The second book of the Old Testament, which gives a history of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.

Ex officio, [Latin] By virtue of office, and without special authority. A justice of the peace may ex officio take sureties of the peace.

EX'ODY, n. [Gr. way.] Departure from a place; particularly, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses.

Ex officio, [L.] By virtue of office, and without special authority. A justice of the peace may ex officio take sureties of the peace.

EX'OGLOSS, noun [Gr. tongue.] A genus of fishes found in the American seas, whose lower jaw is trilobed, and the middle lobe protruded performs the office of a tongue.

EXOLE'TE, adjective [Latin exoleltus.] Obsolete. [Not in use.]

EXOLU'TION, noun Laxation of the nerves. [Not in use.]

EXOLVE, verb transitive To loose. [Not in use.]

EXOM'PHALOS, noun [Gr.] A navel rupture.

EXON'ERATE, verb transitive egzon'erate. [Latin exonero; ex and onero, to load, onus, a load.]

1. To unload; to disburden.

The vessels exonerate themselves into a common duct.

But more generally, in a figurative sense.

2. To cast off, as a charge or as blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon the character as an imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice.

3. To cast off, as an obligation, debt or duty; to discharge of responsibility or liability; as, a surety exonerates himself by producing a man in court.

EXON'ERATED, participle passive Unloaded; disburdened; freed from a charge, imputation or responsibility.

EXON'ERATING, participle present tense Unloading; disburdening; freeing from any charge or imputation.

EXONERA'TION, noun The act of disburdening or discharging; the act of freeing from a charge or imputation.

EXON'ERATIVE, adjective Freeing from a burden or obligation.

EX'ORABLE, adjective [Latin exorabilis, from exoro; ex and oro, to pray.]

That may be moved or persuaded by entreaty.

EXORB'ITANCE

EXORB'ITANCY, noun egzorb'itance. [Latin exorbitans, from ex and orbita, the track of a wheel, orbis, and orb.]

Literally, a going beyond or without the tract or usual limit. Hence, enormity; extravagance; a deviation from rule or the ordinary limits or right or propriety; as the exorbitances of the tongue, or of deportment.

The reverence of my presence may be a curb to your exorbitancies.

EXORB'ITANCY, n. egzorb'itance. [L. exorbitans, from ex and orbita, the track of a wheel, orbis, and orb.]

Literally, a going beyond or without the tract or usual limit. Hence, enormity; extravagance; a deviation from rule or the ordinary limits or right or propriety; as the exorbitances of the tongue, or of deportment.

EXORB'ITANT, adjective [Latin exorbitans.] Literally, departing from an orbit or usual track. Hence, deviating from the usual course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; hence, excessive; extravagant; enormous. We speak of exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant demands or claims; exorbitant taxes.

1. Anomalous; not comprehended in a settled rule or method.

The Jews were inured with causes exorbitant

EXORB'ITANTLY, adverb Enormously; excessively.

EXORB'ITATE, verb intransitive To go beyond the usual track or orbit; to deviate from the usual limit.

EX'ORCISE, verb intransitive s as z. [Gr. to adjure, to bind by oath, an oath.]

1. To adjure by some holy name; but chiefly, to expel evil spirits by conjurations, prayers and ceremonies. To exorcise a person, is to expel from him the evil spirit supposed to possess him. To exorcise a demon or evil spirit, is to cast him out or drive him from a person, by prayers or other ceremonies.

2. To purify from unclean spirits by adjurations and ceremonies; to deliver from the influence of malignant spirits or demons; as, to exorcise a bed or a house.

EX'ORCISED, participle passive Expelled from a person or place by conjurations and prayers; freed from demons in like manner.

EX'ORCISER, noun One who pretends to cast out evil spirits by adjurations and conjuration.

EX'ORCISING, participle present tense Expelling evil spirits by prayers and ceremonies.

EX'ORCISM, noun [Latin exorcismus.] The expulsion of evil spirits from persons or places by certain adjurations and ceremonies. exorcism was common among the Jews, and still makes a part of the superstitions of some churches.

EX'ORCIST, noun One who pretends to expel evil spirits by conjuration, prayers, and ceremonies. Acts 14:1.

EXORD'IAL, adjective [infra.] Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse; introductory.

EXORD'IUM, noun plural exordiums. [Latin from exodior; ex and ordior, to begin. See Order.] In oratory, the beginning; the introductory part of a discourse, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the preface or proemial part of a composition. The exordium may be formal and deliberate, or abrupt and vehement, according to the nature of the subject and occasion.

EXORNA'TION, noun [Latin exornatio, from exorno; ex and orno, to adorn.]

Ornament; decoration; embellishment.

EXORT'IVE, adjective [Latin exortivus; ex and ortus, a rising.] Rising; relating to the east.

EXOS'SATED, adjective [infra.] Deprived of bones.

EXOS'SEOUS, adjective [Latin ex and ossa, bones.] Without bones; destitute of bones; as exosseous animals.

EXOT'ERIC, adjective [Gr. exterior.] External; public; opposed to esoteric or secret. The exoteric doctrines of the ancient philosophers were those which were openly professed and taught. The esoteric were secret, or taught only to a few chosen disciples.

EX'OTERY, noun What is obvious or common.

EXOT'IC, adjective [Gr. without.] Foreign; pertaining to or produced in a foreign country; not native; extraneous; as an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.

EXOT'IC, noun A plant, shrub or tree not native; a plant produced in a foreign country.

1. A word of foreign origin.

EXPAND', verb transitive [Latin expando; es and pando, to open or spread; Eng. span. The primary sense is to strain or stretch, and this seems to be the sense of bend, Latin pandus.]

1. To open; to spread; as, a flower expands its leaves.

2. To spread; to enlarge a surface; to diffuse; as, a stream expands its waters over a plain.

3. To dilate; to enlarge in bulk; to distend; as, to expand the chest by inspiration; heat expands all bodies; air is expanded by rarefaction.

4. To enlarge; to extend; as, to expand the sphere of benevolence; to expand the heart or affections.

EXPAND'ED, participle passive Opened; spread; extended; dilated; enlarged; diffused.

EXPAND'ING, participle present tense Opening; spreading; extending; dilating; diffusing.

EXPANSE, noun expans'. [Latin expansum.] A spreading; extend; a wide extent of space or body; as the expanse of heave.

The smooth expanse of crystal lakes.

EXPANSIBIL'ITY, noun [from expansible.] The capacity of being expanded; capacity of extension in surface or bulk; as the expansibility of air.

EXPANS'IBLE, adjective Capable of being expanded or spread; capable of being extended, dilated or diffused.

Bodies are not expansible in proportion to their weight.

EXPANS'ILE, adjective Capable of expanding, or of being dilated.

EXPAN'SION, noun [Latin expansio.] The act of expanding or spreading out.

1. The state of being expanded; the enlargement of surface or bulk; dilatation. We apply expansion to surface, as the expansion of a sheet or of a lake, and to bulk, as the expansion of fluids or metals by heat; but not to a line or length without breadth.

2. Extent; space to which any thing is enlarged; also, pure space or distance between remote bodies.

3. Enlargement; as the expansion of the heart or affections.

EXPANS'IVE, adjective Having the power to expand, to spread, or to dilate; as the expansive force of heat or fire.

1. Having the capacity of being expanded; as the expansive quality of air; the expansive atmosphere.

2. Widely extended; as expansive benevolence.

EXPANS'IVENESS, noun The quality of being expansive.

Ex parte, [Latin] On one part; as a hearing or a council ex parte, on one side only.

EXPA'TIATE, verb intransitive [Latin expatior; ex and spatior, to wander, to enlarge in discourse, spatium, space, probably allied to pateo, to open.

1. To open at large; to rove without prescribed limits; to wander in space without restraint.

He bids his soul expatiate in the skies.

Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man.

2. To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion. On important topics the orator thinks himself at liberty to expatiate

EXPA'TIATING, participle present tense Roving at large; moving in space without certain limits or restraint; enlarging in discourse or writing.

EXPA'TIATOR, noun One who enlarges or amplifies in language.

EXPAT'RIATE, verb transitive [Latin ex and patria, country.]

In a general sense, to banish.

To expatriate one's self, is to quit one's country, renouncing citizenship and allegiance in that country, to take residence and become a citizen in another country. The right to expatriate one's self is denied in feudal countries, and much controverted in the U. States.

EXPAT'RIATED, participle passive Banished; removed from one's native country, with renunciation of citizenship and allegiance.

EXPAT'RIATING, participle present tense Banishing; abandoning one's country, with renunciation of allegiance.

EXPATRIA'TION, noun Banishment. More generally, the forsaking one's own country, with a renunciation of allegiance, and with the view of becoming a permanent resident and citizen in another country.

EXPECT', verb transitive [Latin expecto; ex and specto, to look, that is, to reach forward, or to fix the eyes.]

1. To wait for.

The guards,

By me encamp'd on yonder hill, expect

Their motion.

[This sense, though often used by Gibbon, seems to be obsolescent.]

2. To look for; to have a previous apprehension of something future, whether good or evil; to entertain at least a slight belief that an event will happen. We expect a visit that has been promised. We expect money will be paid at the time it is due, though we are often disappointed.

EXPECT, in its legitimate sense, always refers to a future event. The common phrase, I expect it was, is a vulgar as it is improper.

EXPECT'ABLE, adjective To be expected; that may be expected.

EXPECT'ANCE

EXPECT'ANCY, noun The act or state of expecting; expectation.

1. Something expected.

2. Hope; a looking for with pleasure.

EXPECT'ANCY, noun In law, a state of waiting or suspension. An estate in expectancy is one which is to take effect or commence after the determination of another estate. Estates of this kind are remainders and reversions. A remainder, or estate in remainder, is one which is limited to take effect and be enjoyed after another estate is determined. Thus when a grant of land is made to A for twenty years, and after the determination of that term, to B and his heirs forever; A is tenant for years, remainder to B in fee. In this case, the estate of B is in expectancy, that is, waiting for the determination of the estate for years. A reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of a particular estate granted out by him. As when A leases an estate to B for twenty years; after the determination of that period, the estate reverts to the lessor, but during the term the estate of the lessor is in expectancy.

EXPECT'ANCY, n. The act or state of expecting; expectation.

EXPECT'ANCY, n. In law, a state of waiting or suspension. An estate in expectancy is one which is to take effect or commence after the determination of another estate. Estates of this kind are remainders and reversions. A remainder, or estate in remainder, is one which is limited to take effect and be enjoyed after another estate is determined. Thus when a grant of land is made to A for twenty years, and after the determination of that term, to B and his heirs forever; A is tenant for years, remainder to B in fee. In this case, the estate of B is in expectancy, that is, waiting for the determination of the estate for years. A reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of a particular estate granted out by him. As when A leases an estate to B for twenty years; after the determination of that period, the estate reverts to the lessor, but during the term the estate of the lessor is in expectancy.

EXPECT'ANT, adjective Waiting; looking for.

1. An expectant estate, is one which is suspended till the determination of a particular estate.

EXPECT'ANT, noun One who expects; one who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by his belief or hope of receiving some good. Those who have the gift of offices are usually surrounded by expectants.

EXPECTA'TION, noun [Latin expectatio.] The act of expecting or looking forward to a future event with at least some reason to believe the event will happen. expectation differs from hope. Hope originates in desire, and may exist with little or no ground of belief that the desired event will arrive. expectation is founded on some reasons which render the event probably. Hope is directed to some good; expectation is directed to good or evil.

The same weakness of mind which indulges absurd expectations, produces petulance in disappointment.

1. The state of expecting, either with hope or fear.

2. Prospect of good to come.

My soul, wait thou only on God, for my expectation is from him. Psalms 62:5,

3. The object of expectation; the expected Messiah.

4. A state or qualities in a person which excite expectations in others of some future excellence; as a youth of expectation

We now more generally say, a youth of promise.

5. In chances, expectation is applied to contingent events, and is reducible to computation. A sum of money in expectation when an event happens, has a determinate value before that event happens. If the chances of receiving or not receiving a hundred dollars, when an event arrives, are equal; then, before the arrival of the event, the expectation is worth half the money.

EXPECT'ATIVE, noun That which is expected. [Not used.]

EXPECT'ER, noun One who expects; one who waits for something, or for another person.

EXPECT'ING, participle present tense Waiting or looking for the arrival of.

EXPEC'TORANT, adjective [See Expectorate.] Having the quality of promoting discharges from the lungs.

EXPEC'TORANT, noun A medicine which promotes discharges from the lungs.

EXPEC'TORATE, verb transitive [Latin expectoro; ex and pectus, the breast.]

To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking and spitting.

EXPEC'TORATED, participle passive Discharged from the lungs.

EXPEC'TORATING, participle present tense Throwing from the lungs by hawking and spitting.

EXPECTORA'TION, noun The act of discharging phlegm or mucus from the lungs, by coughing, hawking and spitting.

EXPEC'TORATIVE, adjective Having the quality of promoting expectoration.

EXPE'DIATE, verb transitive To expedite. [Not in use.]

EXPE'DIENCE

EXPE'DIENCY, noun [See Speed, Expedient and Expedite.]

1. Fitness or suitableness to effect some good end or the purpose intended; propriety under the particular circumstances of a case. The practicability of a measure is often obvious, when the expedience of it is questionable.

2. Expedition; adventure. [Not now used.]

3. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Not now use.]

EXPE'DIENCY, n. [See Speed, Expedient and Expedite.]

EXPE'DIENT, adjective [Latin expediens; expedio, to hasten; Eng. speed.]

1. Literally, hastening; urging forward. Hence, tending to promote the object proposed; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances. Many things may be lawful, which are not expedient

2. Useful; profitable.

3. Quick; expeditious. [Not used.]

EXPE'DIENT, noun That which serves to promote or advance; any means which may be employed to accomplish an end. Let every expedient be employed to effect an important object, nor let exertions cease till all expedients fail of producing the effect.

1. Shift; means devised or employed in an exigency.

EXPE'DIENTLY, adverb Fitly; suitably; conveniently.

1. Hastily; quickly.

EXPED'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin ex and pes, foot.] In the forest laws of England, to cut out the balls or claws of a dog's fore feet, for the preservation of the king's game.

EXPEDITA'TION, noun The act of cutting out the balls or claws of a dog's fore feet.

EX'PEDITE, verb transitive [Latin expedio; Eng. speed. Expedio is compound. We see the same root in impedio, to hinder to send against, to move in opposition.]

1. To hasten; to quicken; to accelerate motion or progress. The general sent orders to expedite the march of the army. Artificial heat may expedite the growth of plants.

2. To dispatch; to send from.

Such charters are expedited of course.

3. To hasten by rendering easy.

EX'PEDITE, adjective [Latin expeditus.] Quick; speedy; expeditious; as expedite execution. [Little used.]

1. Easy; clear of impediments; unencumbered; as, to make a way plain and expedite [Unusual.]

2. Active; nimble; ready; prompt.

The more expedite will be the soul in its operations. [Unusual.]

3. Light-armed. [Not used.]

EX'PEDITELY, adverb Readily; hastily; speedily; promptly.

EXPEDI'TION, noun [Latin expeditio.] Haste; speed; quickness; dispatch. The mail is conveyed with expedition

1. The march of an army, or the voyage of a fleet, to a distant place, for hostile purposes; as the expedition of the French to Egypt; the expedition of Xerxes into Greece.

2. Any enterprize, undertaking or attempt by a number of persons; or the collective body which undertakes. We say, our government sent an expedition to the Pacific; the expedition has arrived.

EXPEDI'TIOUS, adjective Quick; hasty; speedy; as an expeditious march.

1. Nimble; active; swift; acting with celerity; as an expeditious messenger or runner.

EXPEDI'TIOUSLY, adverb Speedily; hastily; with celerity or dispatch.

EXPED'ITIVE, adjective Performing with speed.

EXPEL', verb transitive [Latin expello; ex and pello, to drive; from the Latin participle.]

1. To drive or force out from any inclosed place; as, to expel wind from the stomach, or air from a bellows. [The word is applicable to any force, physical or moral.]

2. To drive out; to force to leave; as, to expel the inhabitants of a country; to expel wild beasts from a forest.

3. To eject; to throw out.

4. To banish; to exile.

5. To reject; to refuse. [Little used.]

And would you not poor fellowship expel?

6. To exclude; to keep out or off.

7. In college government, to command to leave; to dissolve the connection of a student; to interdict him from further connection.

EXPEL'LABLE, adjective That may be expelled or driven out.

Acid expellable by heat.

EXPEL'LED, participle present tense Driven out or away; forced to leave; banished; exiled; excluded.

EXPEL'LER, noun He or that which drives out or away.

EXPEL'LING, participle present tense Driving out; forcing away; compelling to quit or depart; banishing; excluding.

EXPEND', verb transitive [Latin expendo; ex and pendo, to weigh, from Latin dispendo.]

1. To lay out; to disburse; to spend; to deliver or distribute, either in payment or in donations. We expend money for food, drink and clothing. We expend a little in charity, and a great deal in idle amusements.

2. To lay out; to use; to employ; to consume; as, to expend time and labor. I hope the time, labor and money expended on this book will not be wholly misemployed.

3. To use and consume; as, to expend hay in feeding cattle.

4. To consume; to dissipate; to waste; as, the oil of a lamp is expended to burning; water is expended in mechanical operations.

EXPEND', verb intransitive To be laid out, used or consumed.

EXPEND'ED, participle passive Laid out; spent; disbursed; used; consumed.

EXPEND'ING, pr. Spending; using; employing; wasting.

EXPEND'ITURE, noun The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. A corrupt administration is known by extravagant expenditures of public money.

National income and expenditure

1. Money expended; expense.

The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country.

EXPENSE, noun expens'. [Latin expensum.] A laying out or expending; the disbursing of money, or the employment and consumption, as of time or labor. Great enterprises are accomplished only by a great expense of money, time and labor.

1. Money expended; cost; charge; that which is disbursed in payment or in charity. A prudent man limits his expenses by his income. The expenses of war are rarely or never reimbursed by the acquisition either of goods or territory.

2. That which is used, employed, laid out or consumed; as the expense of time or labor.

EXPENSEFUL, adjective expens'ful. Costly; expensive. [Little used.]

EXPENSELESS, adjective expens'less. Without cost or expense.

EXPENS'IVE, adjective Costly; requiring much expense; as an expensive dress or equipment; an expensive family. Vices are usually more expensive than virtues.

1. Given to expense; free in the use of money; extravagant; lavish; applied to persons. Of men, some are frugal and industrious; others, idle land expensive

2. Liberal; generous in the distribution of property.

This requires an active, expensive indefatigable goodness.

EXPENS'IVELY, adverb With great expense; at great cost or charge.

EXPENS'IVENESS, noun Costliness; the quality of incurring or requiring great expenditures of money. The expensiveness of war is not its greatest evil.

1. Addictedness to expense; extravagance; applied to persons.

EXPE'RIENCE, noun [Latin experientia, from experior, to try; ex and ant. perior; Gr. to attempt, whence pirate. Eng. to fare.The Latin periculum, Eng. peril, are from the same root. We see the root of these words is to go, to fare, to drive, urge or press, to strain or stretch forward.

1. Trial, or a series of trials or experiments; active effort or attempt to do or to prove something, or repeated efforts. A man attempts to raise wheat on moist or clayey ground; his attempt fails of success; experience proves that wheat will not flourish on such a soil. He repeats the trial, and his experience proves the same fact. A single trial is usually denominated an experiment; experience may be a series of trials, or the result of such trials.

2. Observation of a fact or of the same facts or events happening under like circumstances.

3. Trial from suffering or enjoyment; suffering itself; the use of the senses; as the experience we have of pain or sickness. We know the effect of light, of smell or of taste by experience We learn the instability of human affairs by observation or by experience We learn the value of integrity by experience Hence,

4. Knowledge derived from trials, use, practice, or from a series of observations.

EXPE'RIENCE, verb transitive To try by use, by suffering or by enjoyment. Thus we all experience pain, sorrow and pleasure; we experience good and evil; we often experience a change of sentiments and views.

1. To know by practice or trial; to gain knowledge or skill by practice or by a series of observations.

EXPE'RIENCED, participle passive Tried; used; practiced.

1. Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use or observation; as an experienced artist; an experienced physician.

EXPE'RIENCER, noun One who makes trials or experiments.

EXPE'RIENCING, participle present tense Making trial; suffering or enjoying.

EXPER'IMENT, noun [Latin experimentum, from experior, as in experience, which see.]

A trial; an act or operation designed to discover some unknown truth, principle or effect, or to establish it when discovered. Experiments in chimistry disclose the qualities of natural bodies. A series of experiments proves the uniformity of the laws of matter. It is not always safe to trust to a single experiment It is not expedient to try many experiments in legislation.

A political experiment cannot be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours.

EXPER'IMENT, verb intransitive To make trial; to make an experiment; to operate on a body in such a manner as to discover some unknown fact, or to establish it when known. Philosophers experiment on natural bodies for the discovery of their qualities and combinations.

1. To try; to search by trial.

2. To experience. [Not used.]

EXPER'IMENT, verb transitive To try; to know by trial. [Little used.]

EXPERIMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to experiment.

1. Known by experiment or trial; derived from experiment. experimental knowledge is the most valuable, because it is most certain, and most safely to be trusted.

2. Built on experiments; founded on trial and observations, or on a series of results, the effects of operations; as experimental philosophy.

3. Taught by experience; having personal experience.

Admit to the holy communion such only as profess and appear to be regenerated, and experimental christians.

4. Known by experience; derived from experience; as experimental religion.

EXPERIMENT'ALIST, noun One who makes experiments.

EXPERIMENT'ALLY, adverb By experiment; by trial; by operation and observation of results.

1. By experience; by suffering or enjoyment. We are all experimentally acquainted with pain and pleasure.

EXPER'IMENTER, noun One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.

EXPER'IMENTING, participle present tense Making experiments or trials.

EXPERT', adjective [Latin expertus, from experior, to try. See Experience.]

1. Properly, experienced; taught by use, practice or experience; hence, skillful; well instructed; having familiar knowledge of; as an expert philosopher.

2. Dextrous; adroit; ready; prompt; having a facility of operation or performance from practice; as an expert operator in surgery. It is usually followed by in; as expert in surgery; expert in performance on a musical instrument. Pope uses expert of arms, but improperly.

EXPERT'LY, adverb In a skillful or dextrous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.

EXPERT'NESS, noun Skill derived from practice; readiness; dexterity; adroitness; as expertness in musical performance; expertness in war or in seamanship; expertness in reasoning.

EXPE'TIBLE, adjective [Latin expetibilis.] That may be wished for; desirable. [Not used.]

EX'PIABLE, adjective [Latin expiabilis. See Expiate.]

That may be expiated; that may be atoned for and done away; as an expiable offense; expiable guilt.

EX'PIATE, verb transitive [Latin expio; ex and pio, to worship, to atone; pius, pious, mild. The primary sense is probably to appease, to pacify, to allay resentment, which is the usual sense of atone in most languages which I have examined. Pio is probably contracted from pico, and from the root of paco, the radical sense of which is to lay, set or fix; the primary sense of peach, pax. Hence the sense of mild in pius. But this opinion is offered only as probable.

1. To atone for; to make satisfaction for; to extinguish the guilt of a crime by subsequent acts of piety or worship, by which the obligation to punish the crime is canceled. To expiate guilt or a crime, is to perform some act which is supposed to purify the person guilty; or some act which is accepted by the offended party as satisfaction for the injury; that is, some act by which his wrath is appeased, and his forgiveness procured.

2. To make reparation for; as, to expiate an injury.

3. To avert the threats of prodigies.

EX'PIATED, participle passive Atoned for; done away by satisfaction offered and accepted.

EX'PIATING, participle present tense Making atonement or satisfaction for; destroying or removing guilt, and canceling the obligation to punish.

EXPIA'TION, noun [Latin expiatio.] The act of atoning for a crime; the act of making satisfaction for an offense, by which the guilt is done away, and the obligation of the offended person to punish the crime is canceled; atonement; satisfaction. Among pagans and Jews, expiation was made chiefly by sacrifices, or washings and purification. Among christians, expiation for the sins of men is usually considered as made only by the obedience and sufferings of Christ.

1. The means by which atonement for crimes is made; atonement; as sacrifices and purification among heathens, and the obedience and death of Christ among christians.

2. Among ancient heathens, an act by which the threats of prodigies were averted.

EX'PIATORY, adjective Having the power to make atonement or expiation; as an expiatory sacrifice.

EXPILA'TION, noun [Latin expilatio, from expilo, to strip; ex and pilo, to peel.] A stripping; the act of committing waste on land; waste. [Little used.]

EXPI'RABLE, adjective [from expire.] That may expire; that may come to an end.

EXPIRA'TION, noun [Latin expiratio, from expiro. See Expire.]

1. The act of breathing out, or forcing the air from the lungs. Respiration consists of expiration and inspiration.

2. The last emission of breath; death.

3. The emission of volatile matter from any substance; evaporation; exhalation; as the expiration of warm air from the earth.

4. Matter expired; exhalation; vapor; fume.

5. Cessation; close; end; conclusion; termination of a limited time; as the expiration of a month or year; the expiration of a term of years; the expiration of a lease; the expiration of a contract or agreement.

EXPI'RE, verb transitive [Latin expiro, for exspiro; ex and spiro, to breathe.]

1. To breathe out; to throw out the breath from the lungs; opposed to inspire. We expire air at every breath.

2. To exhale; to emit in minute particles, as a fluid or volatile matter. The earth expires a damp or warm vapor; the body expires fluid matter from the pores; plants expire odors.

3. To conclude.

EXPI'RE, verb intransitive To emit the last breath, as an animal; to die; to breathe the last.

1. To perish; to end; to fail or be destroyed; to come to nothing; to be frustrated.

With the loss of battle all his hopes of empire expired.

2. To fly out; to be thrown out with force. [Unusual.]

The ponderous ball expires.

3. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to close or conclude, as a given period. A lease will expire on the first of May. The year expires on Monday. The contract will expire at Michaelmas. The days had not expired.

When forty years had expired. Acts 7:30.

EXPI'RING, participle present tense Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

1. Pertaining to or uttered at the time of dying; as expiring words; expiring groans.

EXPLA'IN, verb transitive [Latin explano; ex and planus, plain, open, smooth.]

To make plain, manifest or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to illustrate by discourse, or by notes. The first business of a preacher is to explain his text. Notes and comments are intended to explain the scriptures.

EXPLA'IN, verb intransitive To give explanations.

EXPLA'INABLE, adjective That may be cleared of obscurity; capable of being made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.

EXPLA'INED, participle passive Made clear or obvious to the understanding; cleared of doubt, ambiguity or obscurity; expounded; illustrated.

EXPLA'INER, noun One who explains; an expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

EXPLA'INING, participle present tense Expounding; illustrating; interpreting; opening to the understanding; clearing of obscurity.

EXPLANA'TION, noun [Latin explanatio.] The act of explaining, expounding or interpreting; exposition; illustration; interpretation; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as the explanation of a passage in scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

1. The sense given by an expounder or interpreter.

2. A mutual exposition of terms, meaning or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding and reconcile differences. Hence, reconciliation, agreement or good understanding of parties who have been at variance. The parties have come to an explanation

EXPLAN'ATORY, adjective Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

EXPLE'TION, noun [Latin expletio.] Accomplishment; fulfillment. [Little used.]

EX'PLETIVE, adjective [Latin expleo, to fill.] Filling; added for supply or ornament.

EX'PLETIVE, noun In language, a word or syllable inserted to fill a vacancy, or for ornament. The Greek language abounds with expletives.

EX'PLICABLE, adjective [Latin explicabilis. See Explicate.]

1. Explainable; that may be unfolded to the mind; that may be made intelligible. Many difficulties in old authors are not explicable

2. That may be accounted for. The conduct and measures of the administration are not explicable by the usual rules of judging.

EX'PLICATE, verb transitive [Latin explico, to unfold; ex and plico, to fold.

1. To unfold; to expand; to open. 'They explicate the leaves.' [In this sense, the word is not common, and hardly admissible.]

2. To unfold the meaning or sense; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.

The last verse of his last satyr is not yet sufficiently explicated.

EX'PLICATED, participle passive Unfolded; explained.

EX'PLICATING, participle present tense Unfolding; explaining; interpreting.

EXPLICA'TION, noun The act of opening or unfolding.

1. The act of explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation; as the explication of the parables of our Savior.

2. The sense given by an expositor or interpreter.

EX'PLICATIVE

EX'PLICATOR, noun One who unfolds or explains; an expounder.

EX'PLICATOR, n. One who unfolds or explains; an expounder.

EX'PLICATORY, adjective Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding.

EXPLIC'IT, adjective [Latin explicitus, part of explico, to unfold.]

1. Literally, unfolded. Hence, plain in language; open to the understanding; clear, not obscure or ambiguous; express, not merely implied. An explicit proposition or declaration is that in which the words, in their common acceptation, express the true meaning of the person who utters them, and in which there is no ambiguity or disguise.

2. Plain; open; clear; unreserved; having no disguised meaning or reservation; applied to persons. He was explicit in his terms.

EXPLIC'ITLY, adverb Plainly; expressly; without duplicity; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication. He explicitly avows his intention.

EXPLIC'ITNESS, noun Plainness of language or expression; clearness; direct expression of ideas or intention, without reserve or ambiguity.

EXPLO'DE, verb intransitive [Latin explodo; ex and plaudo, to utter a burst of sound, from the root of loud.]

Properly, to burst forth, as sound; to utter a report with sudden violence. Hence, to burst and expand with force and a violent report, as an elastic fluid. We say, gun powder explodes, on the application of fire; a volcano explodes; a meteor explodes.

EXPLO'DE, verb transitive To decry or reject with noise; to express disapprobation of, with noise or marks of contempt; as, to explode a play on the state. Hence,

1. To reject with any marks of disapprobation or disdain; to treat with contempt, and drive from notice; to drive into disrepute; or in general, to condemn; to reject; to cry down. Astrology is now exploded.

2. To drive out with violence and noise. [Little used.]

The kindled powder exploded the ball.

EXPLO'DED, participle passive Driven away by hisses or noise; rejected with disapprobation or contempt; condemned; cried down.

EXPLO'DER, noun One who explodes; a hisser; one who rejects.

EXPLO'DING, participle present tense Bursting and expanding with force and a violent report; rejecting with marks of disapprobation or contempt; rejecting; condemning.

EXPLOIT', noun

1. A deed or act; more especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; a great or noble achievement; as the exploits of Alexander, of Caesar, of Washington. [Exploiture, in a like sense, is not in use.]

2. In a ludicrous sense, a great act of wickedness.

EXPLOIT', verb transitive To achieve. [Not in use.]

EXPLO'RATE, verb transitive To explore. [Not used. See Explore.]

EXPLORA'TION, noun [See Explore.] The act of exploring; close search; strict or careful examination.

EXPLORA'TOR, noun One who explores; one who searches or examines closely.

EXPLO'RATORY, adjective Serving to explore; searching; examining.

EXPLO'RE, verb transitive [Latin exploro; ex and ploro, to cry out, to wail, to bawl. The compound appears to convey a very different sense from the simple verb ploro; but the primary sense is to stretch, strain, drive; applied to the voice, it is to strain or press out sounds or words; applied to the eyes, it is to stretch or reach, as in prying curiosity.]

1. To search for making discovery; to view with care; to examine closely by the eye.

Moses sent spies to explore the land of Canaan.

2. To search by any means; to try; as, to explore the deep by a plummet or lead.

3. To search or pry into; to scrutinize; to inquire with care; to examine closely with a view to discover truth; as, to explore the depths of science.

EXPLO'RED, participle passive Searched; viewed; examined closely.

EXPLO'REMENT, noun Search; trial. [Little used.]

EXPLO'RING, participle present tense Searching; viewing; examining with care.

EXPLO'SION, noun s as z. [from explode.]

1. A bursting with noise; a bursting or sudden expansion of any elastic fluid, with force and a loud report; as the explosion of powder.

2. The discharge of a piece of ordnance with a loud report.

3. The sudden burst of sound in a volcano, etc.

EXPLO'SIVE, adjective Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as the explosive force of gun-powder.

EXPOLIA'TION, noun [Latin expoliatio.] A spoiling; a wasting. [See Spoliation.]

EXPOLISH, for polish, a useless word.

EXPO'NENT, noun [Latin exponens; expono, to expose or set forth; ex and pono, to place.]

1. In algebra, the number or figure which, placed above a root at the right hand, denotes how often that root is repeated, or how many multiplications are necessary to produce the power. Thus a[2] denotes the second power of the root a, or aa: a[4] denotes the fourth power. The figure is the exponent or index of the power.

2. The exponent of the ratio or proportion between two numbers or quantities, is the quotient arising when the antecedent is divided by the consequent. Thus six is the exponent of the ratio of thirty to five.

EXPONEN'TIAL, adjective exponential curves are such as partake both of the nature of algebraic and transcendental ones. They partake of the former, because they consist of a finite number of terms, though these terms themselves are indeterminate; and they are in some measure transcendental, because they cannot be algebraically constructed.

EXPO'RT, verb transitive [Latin exporto; ex and porto, to carry. Porto seems allied to fero, and Eng. bear.]

To carry out; but appropriately, and perhaps exclusively, to convey or transport, in traffic, produce and goods from one country to another, or from one state or jurisdiction to another, either by water or land. We export wares and merchandize from the United States to Europe. The Northern States export manufactures to South Carolina and Georgia. Goods are exported from Persia to Syria and Egypt on camels.

EX'PORT, noun A commodity actually conveyed from one country or state to another in traffic, or a commodity which may be exported; used chiefly in the plural, exports. We apply the word to goods or produce actually carried abroad, or to such as are usually exported in commerce.

EXPO'RTABLE, adjective That may be exported.

EXPORTA'TION, noun The act of exporting; the act of conveying goods and productions from one country or state to another in the course of commerce. A country is benefited or enriched by the exportation of its surplus productions.

1. The act of carrying out.

EXPO'RTED, participle passive Carried out of a country or state in traffic.

EXPO'RTER, noun The person who exports; the person who ships goods, wares and merchandize of any kind to a foreign country, or who sends them to market in a distant country or state; opposed to importer.

EXPO'RTING, participle present tense Conveying to a foreign country or to another state, as goods, produce or manufactures.

EXPO'SAL, noun Exposure. [Not in use.]

EXPO'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin expositum, from expono; ex and pono, to place. The radical sense of pono is to set or place, or rather to throw or thrust down. To expose is to set or throw open, or to thrust forth.]

1. To lay open; to set to public view; to disclose; to uncover or draw from concealment; as, to expose the secret artifices of a court; to expose a plan or design.

2. To make bare; to uncover; to remove from any thing that which guards or protects; as, to expose the head or the breast to the air.

3. To remove from shelter; to place in a situation to be affected or acted on; as, to expose one's self to violent heat.

4. To lay open to attack, by any means; as, to expose an army or garrison.

5. To make liable; to subject; as, to expose one's self to pain, grief or toil; to expose one's self to insult.

6. To put in the power of; as, to expose one's self to the seas.

7. To lay open to censure, ridicule or contempt.

A fool might once himself alone expose

8. To lay open, in almost any manner; as, to expose one's self to examination or scrutiny.

9. To put in danger. The good soldier never shrinks from exposing himself, when duty requires it.

10. To cast out to chance; to place abroad, or in a situation unprotected. Some nations expose their children.

11. To lay open; to make public. Be careful not unnecessarily to expose the faults of a neighbor.

12. To offer; to place in a situation to invite purchasers; as, to expose goods to sale.

13. To offer to inspection; as, to expose paintings in a gallery.

EXPO'SED, participle passive Laid open; laid bare; uncovered; unprotected; made liable to attack; offered for sale; disclosed; made public; offered to view.

EXPO'SEDNESS, noun A state of being exposed, open to attack, or unprotected; as an exposedness to sin or temptation.

EXPO'SER, noun One who exposes.

EXPO'SING, participle present tense Lying or laying open; making bare; putting in danger; disclosing; placing in any situation without protection; offering to inspection or to sale.

EXPOSI'TION, noun A laying open; a setting to public view.

1. A situation in which a thing is exposed or laid open, or in which it has an unobstructed view, or in which a free passage to it is open; as, a house has an easterly exposition an exposition to the south or to a southern prospect. The exposition gives a free access to the air or to the sun's rays.

2. Explanation; interpretation; a laying open the sense or meaning of an author or of any passage in a writing.

EXPOS'ITIVE, adjective Explanatory; laying open.

EXPOS'ITOR, noun [Latin] One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.

1. A dictionary or vocabulary which explains words.

EXPOS'ITORY, adjective Serving to explain; tending to illustrate.

Ex post facto. [Latin] In law, done after another thing. An estate granted may be made good by matter ex post facto, which was not good at first.

An ex post facto law, in criminal cases, consists in declaring an act penal or criminal, which was innocent when done; or in raising the grade of an offense, making it greater than it was when committed, or increasing the punishment after the commission of the offense; or in altering the rules of evidence, so as to allow different or less evidence to convict the offender, than was required when the offense was committed.

An ex post facto law is one that renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable at the time it was committed.

This definition is distinguished for its comprehensive brevity and precision.

In a free government, no person can be subjected to punishment by an ex post facto law.

EXPOS'TULATE, verb intransitive [Latin expostulo; ex and postulo, to require, probably from the root of posco.]

To reason earnestly with a person, on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to desist, or to make redress; followed by with.

The emperor's embassador expostulated with the king, that he had broken the league with the emperor.

EXPOS'TULATE, verb transitive To discuss; to examine. [Not used.]

EXPOS'TULATING, participle present tense Reasoning or urging arguments against any improper conduct.

EXPOSTULA'TION, noun Reasoning with a person in opposition to his conduct; the act of pressing on a person reasons or arguments against the impropriety of his conduct, and in some cases, demanding redress or urging reformation.

1. In rhetoric, an address containing expostulation

EXPOS'TULATOR, noun One who expostulates.

EXPOS'TULATORY, adjective Containing expostulation; as an expostulatory address or debate.

EXPO'SURE, noun s as z. [from expose.] The act of exposing or laying open.

1. The state of being laid open to view, to danger or to any inconvenience; as exposure to observation; exposure to cold, or to the air; exposure to censure.

2. The situation of a place in regard to points of compass, or to a free access of air or light. We say, a building or a garden or a wall has a northern or a southern exposure We speak of its exposure or exposition to a free current of air, or to the access of light.

EXPOUND', verb transitive [Latin expono; ex and pono, to set.]

1. To explain; to lay open the meaning; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of scripture; to expound a law.

2. To lay open; to examine; as, to expound the pocket. [Not used.]

EXPOUND'ED, participle passive Explained; laid open; interpreted.

EXPOUND'ER, noun An explainer; one who interprets or explains the meaning.

EXPOUND'ING, participle present tense Explaining; laying open; making clear to the understanding; interpreting.

EXPRESS', verb transitive [Latin expressum, exprimo; ex and premo, to press. See Press.]

1. To press or squeeze out; to force out by pressure; as, to express the juice of grapes or of apples.

2. To utter; to declare in words; to speak. He expressed his ideas or his meaning with precision. His views were expressed in very intelligible terms.

3. To write or engrave; to represent in written words or language. The covenants in the deed are well expressed.

4. To represent; to exhibit by copy or resemblance.

So kids and whelps their sires and dams express

5. To represent or show by imitation or the imitative arts; to form a likeness; as in painting or sculpture.

Each skilful artist shall express thy form.

6. To show or make known; to indicate.

A downcast eye or look may express humility, shame or guilt.

7. To denote; to designate.

Moses and Aaron took these men, who are expressed by their names. Numbers 1:17.

8. To extort; to elicit. [Little used.]

EXPRESS', adjective Plain; clear; expressed; direct not ambiguous. We are informed in express terms or words. The terms of the contract are express

1. Given in direct terms; not implied or left to inference. This is the express covenant or agreement. We have his express consent. We have an express law on the subject. express warranty; express malice.

2. Copied; resembling; bearing an exact representation.

His face express

3. Intended or sent for a particular purpose, or on a particular errand; as, to send a messenger express

EXPRESS', noun A messenger sent on a particular errand or occasion; usually, a courier sent to communicate information of an important event, or to deliver; important dispatches. It is applied also to boats or vessels sent to convey important information.

1. A message sent.

2. A declaration in plain terms. [Not in use.]

EXPRESS'ED, participle passive Squeezed or forced out, as juice or liquor; uttered in words; set down in writing or letters; declared; represented; shown.

EXPRESS'IBLE, adjective That may be expressed; that may be uttered, declared, shown or represented.

1. That may be squeezed out.

EXPRESS'ING, participle present tense Forcing out by pressure; uttering; declaring; showing; representing.

EXPRES'SION, noun The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure, as juices and oils from plants.

1. The act of uttering, declaring or representing; utterance; declaration; representation; as an expression of the public will.

2. A phrase, or mode of speech; as an old expression; an odd expression

3. In rhetoric, elocution; diction; the peculiar manner of utterance, suited to the subject and sentiment.

No adequate description can be given of the nameless and ever varying shades of expression which real pathos gives to the voice.

4. In painting, a natural and lively representation of the subject; as the expression of the eye, of the countenance, or of a particular action or passion.

5. In music, the tone, grace or modulation of voice or sound suited to any particular subject; that manner which gives life and reality to ideas and sentiments.

6. Theatrical expression is a distinct, sonorous and pleasing pronunciation, accompanied with action suited to the subject.

EXPRESS'IVE, adjective Serving to express; serving to utter or represent; followed by of. He sent a letter couched in terms expressive of his gratitude.

Each verse so swells expressive of her woes.

1. Representing with force; emphatical.

These words are very expressive

2. Showing; representing; as an expressive sign.

EXPRESS'IVELY, adverb In an expressive manner; clearly; fully; with a clear representation.

EXPRESS'IVENESS, noun The quality of being expressive; the power of expression or representation by words.

1. The power or force of representation; the quality of presenting a subject strongly to the senses or to the mind; as the expressiveness of the eye, or of the features, or of sounds.

EXPRESS'LY, adverb In direct terms; plainly.

EXPRESS'URE, noun Expression; utterance; representation; mark; impression. [Little used.]

EX'PROBRATE, verb transitive [Latin exprobro; ex and probrum, deformity, a shameful act.]

To upbraid; to censure as reproachful; to blame; to condemn.

EXPROBRA'TION, noun The act of charging or censuring reproachfully; reproachful accusation; the act of upbraiding.

No need such boasts, or exprobrations false

Of cowardice.

EXPROBRA'TIVE, adjective Upbraiding; expressing reproach.

EXPRO'PRIATE, verb transitive [Latin ex and proprius, own.]

To disengage from appropriation; to hold no longer as one's own; to give up a claim to exclusive property.

EXPROPRIA'TION, noun The act of discarding appropriation, or declining to hold as one's own; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property.

EXPU'GN, verb transitive expu'ne. [Latin expugno; ex and pugno, to fight.]

To conquer; to take by assault.

EXPU'GNABLE, adjective That may be forced.

EXPUGNA'TION, noun Conquest; the act of taking by assault.

EXPU'GNER, noun One who subdues.

EXPUI'TION, noun [Latin expuo for exspuo.] A discharge of saliva by spitting.

EXPULSE, verb transitive expuls'. [Latin expulsus, expello; ex and pello, to drive.] To drive out; to expel. [Little used.]

EXPUL'SION, noun The act of driving out or expelling; a driving away by violence; as the expulsion of the thirty tyrants from Athens, or of Adam from paradise.

1. The state of being driven out or away.

EXPUL'SIVE, adjective Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.

EXPUNC'TION, noun [See Expunge.] The act of expunging; the act of blotting out or erasing.

EXPUNGE, verb transitive expunj'. [Latin expungo; ex and pungo, to thrust, to prick.]

1. To blot out, as with a pen; to rub out; to efface, as words; to obliterate. We expunge single words or whole lines or sentences.

2. To efface; to strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expunge an offense.

EXPUNGE the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.

EXPUN'GED, participle passive Blotted out; obliterated; destroyed.

EXPUN'GING, participle present tense Blotting out; erasing; effacing; destroying.

EX'PURGATE, verb transitive [Latin expurgo; ex and purgo, to cleanse.]

To purge; to cleanse; to purify from any thing noxious, offensive or erroneous.

EX'PURGATED, participle passive Purged; cleansed; purified.

EX'PURGATING, participle present tense Purging; cleansing; purifying.

EXPURGA'TION, noun The act of purging or cleansing; evacuation.

1. A cleansing; purification from any thing noxious, offensive, sinful or erroneous.

EX'PURGATOR, noun One who expurgates or purifies.

EXPURG'ATORY, adjective Cleansing; purifying; serving to purify from any thing noxious or erroneous; as the expurgatory index of the Romanists, which directs the expunction of passages of authors contrary to their creed or principles.

Expurgatory animadversions.

EXPURGE, verb transitive expurj'. [Latin expurgo.] To purge away. [Not in use.]

EXQUI'RE, verb transitive [Latin exquiro.] To search into or out. [Not in use.]

EX'QUISITE, adjective s as z. [Latin e xquisitus, from exquiro; ex and quaero, to seek.] Literally, sought out or searched for with care; whence, choice; select. Hence,

1. Nice; exact; very excellent; complete; as a vase of exquisite workmanship.

2. Nice; accurate; capable of nice perception; as exquisite sensibility.

3. Nice; accurate; capable of nice discrimination; as exquisite judgment, taste or discernment.

4. Being in the highest degree; extreme; as, to relish pleasure in an exquisite degree. So we say, exquisite pleasure or pain.

The most exquisite of human satisfactions flows from an approving conscience.

5. Very sensibly felt; as a painful and exquisite impression on the nerves.

EX'QUISITELY, adverb Nicely; accurately; with great perfection; as a work exquisitely finished; exquisitely written.

1. With keen sensation or with nice perception. We feel pain more exquisitely when nothing diverts our attention from it.

We see more exquisitely with one eye shut.

EX'QUISITENESS, noun Nicety; exactness; accuracy; completeness; perfecton; as the exquisiteness of workmanship.

1. Keenness; sharpness; extremity; as the exquisiteness of pain or grief.

EXQUIS'ITIVE, adjective Curious; eager to discover. [Not in use.]

EXQUIS'ITIVELY, adverb Curiously; minutely. [Not in use.]

EXSAN'GUIOUS, adjective [Latin exsanguis; ex and sanguis, blood.]

Destitute of blood, or rather of red blood, as an animal.

EXSCIND', verb transitive [Latin exscindo.] To cut off. [Little used.]

EXSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin exscribo.] To copy; to transcribe. [Not in use.]

EX'SCRIPT, noun A copy; a transcript. [Not used.]

EXSEC'TION, noun [Latin exsectio.] A cutting off, or a cutting out.

EXSERT'

EXSERT'ED, adjective [Latin exsero; ex and sero. See Exert.]

Standing out; protruded from the corol; as stamens exsert

A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted.

EXSERT'ED, a. [L. exsero; ex and sero. See Exert.]

Standing out; protruded from the corol; as stamens exsert.

EXSERT'ILE, adjective That may be thrust out or protruded.

EXSIC'CANT, adjective [See Exsiccate.] Drying; evaporating moisture; having the quality of drying.

EX'SICCATE, verb transitive [Latin exsicco; ex and sicco, to dry.]

To dry; to exhaust or evaporate moisture.

EX'SICCATED, participle passive Dried.

EX'SICCATING, participle present tense Drying; evaporating moisture.

EXSICCA'TION, noun The act or operation of drying; evaporation of moisture; dryness.

EXSPUI'TION

EXSTIP'ULATE, adjective [Latin ex and stipula, straw.] In botany, having no stipules.

EXSTIP'ULATE, a. [L. ex and stipula, straw.] In botany, having no stipules.

EXSUC'COUS, adjective [Latin exsuccus; ex and succus, juice.] Destitute of juice; dry.

EXSUC'TION, noun [Latin exugo, exsugo, to suck out; sugo, to suck.]

The act of sucking out.

EXSUDA'TION, noun [Latin exudo, for exsudo.] A sweating; a discharge of humors or moisture from animal bodies by sweat or extillation through the pores.

1. The discharge of the juices of a plant, moisture from the earth. etc.

EXSU'DE, verb transitive [supra.] To discharge the moisture or juices of a living body through the pores; also, to discharge the liquid matter of a plant by incisions.

Our forests exude turpentine in the greatest abundance.

EXSU'DE, verb intransitive To flow from a living body through the pores or by a natural discharge, as juice.

EXSU'DED, participle passive Emitted, as juice.

EXSU'DING, participle present tense Discharging, as juice.

EXSUFFLA'TION, noun [Latin ex and sufflo, to blow.]

1. A blowing or blast from beneath. [Little used.]

2. A kind of exorcism.

EXSUF'FOLATE, adjective Contemptible. [Not in use.]

EXSUS'CITATE, verb transitive [Latin exsuscito.] To rouse; to excite. [Not used.]

EXSUSCITA'TION, noun A stirring up; a rousing. [Not used.]

EX'TANCE, noun [Latin estans.] Outward existence. [Not used.]

EX'TANCY, noun [Latin exstans, extans, standing out, from exsto; ex and sto, to stand.]

1. The state of rising above others.

2. Parts rising above the rest; opposed to depression. [Little used.]

EX'TANT, adjective [Latin exstans, extans, supra.] Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums.

A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant

1. In being; not subsisting; not suppressed, destroyed, or lost. A part only of the history of Livy, and of the writings of Cicero, is now extant Socrates wrote much, but none of his writings are extant The extant works of orators and philosophers.

EXTASY, EXTATIC. [See Ecstasy, Ecstatic.]

EXTASY, EXTATIC [See Ecstasy, Ecstatic.]

EXTEM'PORAL, adjective [Latin extemporalis; ex and tempus, time.] Made or uttered at the moment, without premeditation; as an extemporal discourse.

1. Speaking without premeditation.

Instead of this word, extemporaneous and extemporary are now used.

EXTEM'PORALLY, adverb Without premeditation.

EXTEMPORA'NEAN, adjective [Not used. See Extemporaneous.]

EXTEMPORA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin extemporaneus; ex and tempus, time.]

Composed, performed or uttered at the time the subject occurs, without previous study; unpremeditated; as an extemporaneous address; an extemporaneous production; an extemporaneous prescription.

EXTEMPORA'NEOUSLY, adverb Without previous study.

EXTEM'PORARILY, adverb Without previous study.

EXTEM'PORARY, adjective [Latin ex and temporius, from tempus, time.]

Composed, performed or uttered without previous study or preparation. See Extemporaneous.]

EXTEM'PORE, adverb extem'pory. [Latin abl.]

1. Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; suddenly; as, to write or speak extempore

2. It is used as an adjective, improperly, at least without necessity; as an extempore dissertation.

EXTEM'PORIIZING, participle present tense Speaking without previous study, or preparation by writing.

The extemporizing faculty is never more out of its element than in the pulpit.

EXTEM'PORINESS, noun The state of being unpremeditated; the state of being composed, performed or uttered without previous study.

EXTEM'PORIZE, verb intransitive To speak extempore; to speak without previous study or preparation. To extemporize well requires a ready mind well furnished with knowledge.

1. To discourse without notes or written composition.

EXTEM'PORIZER, noun One who speaks without previous study, or without written composition.

EXTEND', verb transitive [Latin extendo; ex and tendo, teneo.]

1. To stretch in any direction; to carry forward, or continue in length, as a line; to spread in breadth; to expand or dilate in size. The word is particularly applied to length and breadth. We extend lines in surveying; we extend roads, limits, bounds; we extend metal plates by hammering.

2. To stretch; to reach forth; as, to extend the arm of hand.

3. To spread; to expand; to enlarge; to widen; as, to extend the capacities, or intellectual powers; to extend the sphere of usefulness; to extend commerce.

4. To continue; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment; to extend the season of trial.

5. To communicate; to bestow on; to use or exercise towards.

He hath extended mercy to me before the king. Ezra 7:28.

6. To impart; to yield or give.

I will extend peace to her like a river. Isaiah 66:12.

7. In law, to value lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; or to levy on lands, as an execution.

The execution was delivered to the sheriff, who extended the same on certain real estate.

EXTEND', verb intransitive To stretch; to reach; to be continued in length or breadth. The state of Massachusetts extends west to the border of the state of New York. Connecticut river extends from Canada to the sound. How far will your argument or proposition extend? Let our charities extend to the heathen.

EXTEND'ED, participle passive Stretched; spread; expanded; enlarged; bestowed on; communicated; valued under a writ of extendi facias; levied.

EXTEND'ER, noun He or that which extends or stretches.

EXTEND'IBLE, adjective Capable of being extended; that may be stretched, extended, enlarged, widened or expanded.

1. That may be taken by a writ of extent and valued.

EXTEND'ING, participle present tense Stretching; reaching; continuing in length; spreading; enlarging; valuing.

EXTEND'LESSNESS, noun Unlimited extension. [Not used.]

EXTENS'IBILITY, adjective [from extensible.] The capacity of being extended, or of suffering extension; as the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.

EXTENS'IBLE, adjective [from Latin extensus.] That may be extended; capable of being stretched in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement.

EXTENS'IBLENESS, noun Extensibility, which see.

EXTENS'ILE, adjective Capable of being extended.

EXTEN'SION, noun [Latin extension ] The act of extending; a stretching.

1. The state of being extended; enlargement in breadth, or continuation of length.

2. In philosophy, that property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.

EXTEN'SIONAL, adjective Having great extent. [Not used.]

EXTENS'IVE, adjective Wide; large; having great enlargement or extent; as an extensive farm; an extensive field; an extensive lake; and extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence.

1. That may be extended. [Not used.]

EXTENS'IVELY, adverb Widely; largely; to a great extent; as, a story is extensively circulated.

EXTENS'IVENESS, noun Wideness; largeness; extent; as the extensiveness of the ocean.

1. Extent; diffusiveness; as the extensiveness of a man's charities or benevolence.

2. Capacity of being extended. [Little used.]

EXTENS'OR, noun In anatomy, a muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; opposed to flexor.

EXTENT', adjective Extended.

EXTENT', noun [Latin extentus. It is frequently accented on the first syllable.]

1. Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, compass; bulk; size; as a great extent of country, or of body.

2. Length; as an extent of line.

3. Communication; distribution.

The extent of equal justice.

4. In law, a writ of execution or extendi facias, commanding a sheriff to value the lands of a debtor; or extent is the act of the sheriff or commissioner in making the valuation.

EXTEN'UATE, verb transitive [Latin extenuo; ex and tenuo, to make thin.]

1. To make thin, lean or slender. Sickness extenuates the body.

2. To lessen; to diminish; as a crime or guilt.

But fortune there extenuates the crime.

3. To lessen in representation; to palliate; opposed to aggravate.

4. To lessen or diminish in honor. [Little used.]

5. To make thin or rare; opposed to condense. [Little used.]

EXTEN'UATE, adjective Thin; slender. [Not used.]

EXTEN'UATED, participle passive Made thin, lean or slender; made smaller; lessened; diminished; palliated; made rare.

EXTEN'UATING, participle present tense Making thin or slender; lessening; diminishing; palliating; making rare.

EXTENUA'TION, noun The act of making thin; the process of growing thin or lean; the losing of flesh.

1. The act representing any thing less wrong, faulty or criminal than it is in fact; palliation; opposed to aggravation; as the extenuation of faults, injuries or crimes.

2. Mitigation; alleviation; as the extenuation of punishment.

[Not common.]

EXTE'RIOR, adjective [Latin from exterus, foreign.]

1. External; outward; applied to the outside or outer surface of a body, and opposed to interior. We speak of the exterior and interior surfaces of a concavo-convex lens.

2. External; on the outside, with reference to a person; extrinsic. We speak of an object exterior to a man, as opposed to that which is within or in his mind.

EXTE'RIOR, noun The outward surface; that which is external.

1. Outward or visible deportment; appearance.

EXTE'RIORLY, adverb Outwardly; externally. [An ill formed word.]

EXTE'RIORS, noun plural The outward parts of a thing.

1. Outward or external deportment, or forms and ceremonies; visible acts; as the exteriors of religion.

EXTERM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin extermino; ex and terminus, limit.]

Literally, to drive from within the limits or borders. Hence,

1. To destroy utterly; to drive away; to extirpate; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe or a nation; to exterminate inhabitants or a race of men.

2. To eradicate; to root out; to extirpate; as, to exterminate error, heresy, infidelity or atheism; to exterminate vice.

3. To root out, as plants; to extirpate; as, to exterminate weeds.

4. In algebra, to take away; as, to exterminate surds or unknown quantities.

EXTERM'INATED, participle passive Utterly driven away or destroyed; eradicated; extirpated.

EXTERM'INATING, participle present tense Driving away or totally destroying; eradicating; extirpating.

EXTERMINA'TION, noun The act of exterminating; total expulsion or destruction; eradication; extirpation; excision; as the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

1. In algebra, a taking away.

EXTERM'INATOR, noun He or that which exterminates.

EXTERM'INATORY, adjective Serving or tending to exterminate.

EXTERM'INE, verb transitive To exterminate. [Not used.]

EXTERN', adjective [Latin externus. External; outward; visible.

1. Without itself; not inherent; not intrinsic. [Little used.]

EXTERN'AL, adjective [Latin externus.]

1. Outward; exterior; as the external surface of a body; opposed to internal.

2. Outward; not intrinsic; not being within; as external objects; external causes or effects.

3. Exterior; visible; apparent; as external deportment.

4. Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.

External taxes, are duties or imposts laid on goods imported into a country.

EXTERNAL'ITY, noun External perception.

EXTERN'ALLY, adverb Outwardly; on the outside.

1. In appearance; visibly.

EXTERN'ALS, noun plural The outward parts; exterior form.

Adam was no less glorious in his externals; he had a beautiful body, as well as an immortal soul.

1. Outward rites and ceremonies; visible forms; as the externals of religion.

EXTERRA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin exterraneus; ex and terra, a land.]

Foreign; belonging to or coming from abroad.

EXTER'SION, noun [Latin extersio, from extergeo; ex and tergeo, to wipe.] The act of wiping or rubbing out.

EXTILL', verb intransitive [Latin extillo; ex and stillo, to drop.]

To drop or distil from.

EXTILLA'TION, noun The act of distilling from, or falling from in drops.

EXTIMULATE. [Not in use.] [See Stimulate.]

EXTIMULATION. [See Stimulation.]

EXTINCT', adjective [Latin extinctus. See Extinguish.

1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, fire, light or a lamp is extinct

2. Being at an end; having no survivor; as, a family or race is extinct

3. Being at an end; having ceased. The enmity between the families is extinct

My days are extinct Job 17:1.

4. Being at an end, by abolition or disuse; having no force; as, the law is extinct

EXTINC'TION, noun [Latin extinctio. See Extinguish.]

1. The act of putting out or destroying light or fire, by quenching, suffocation or otherwise.

2. The state of being extinguished, quenched or suffocated; as the extinction of fire or of a candle.

3. Destruction; excision; as the extinction of nations.

4. Destruction; suppression; a putting an end to; as the extinction of life, or of a family; the extinction of feuds, jealousies or enmity; the extinction of a claim.

EXTIN'GUISH, verb transitive [Latin extinguo; ex and stingo, stinguo, or the latter may be a contraction; Gr. to prick, that is, to thrust; or more directly from tingo, to dip, to stain; both probably allied to tango, for tago, to touch.

1. To put out; to quench; to suffocate; to destroy; as, to extinguish fire or flame.

2. To destroy; to put an end to; as, to extinguish love or hatred in the breast; to extinguish desire or hope; to extinguish a claim or title.

3. To cloud or obscure by superior splendor.

4. To put an end to, by union or consolidation. [See Extinguishment.]

EXTIN'GUISHABLE, adjective That may be quenched, destroyed or suppressed.

EXTIN'GUISHED, participle passive Put out; quenched; stifled; suppressed; destroyed.

EXTIN'GUISHER, noun He or that which extinguishes.

1. A hollow conical utensil to be put on a candle to extinguish it.

EXTIN'GUISHING, participle present tense Putting out; quenching; suppressing; destroying.

EXTIN'GUISHMENT, noun The act of putting out or quenching; extinction; suppression; destruction; as the extinguishment of fire or flame; of discord, enmity or jealousy; or of love or affection.

1. Abolition; nullification.

Divine laws of christian church policy may not be altered by extinguishment

2. Extinction; a putting an end to, or a coming to an end; termination; as the extinguishment of a race or tribe.

3. The putting an end to a right or estate, by consolidation or union.

If my tenant for life makes a lease to A for life, remainder to B and his heirs, and I release to A; this release operates as an extinguishment of my right to the reversion.

EXTIRP', verb transitive To extirpate. [Not used.]

EXTIRP'ABLE, adjective That may be eradicated.

EX'TIRPATE, verb transitive [Latin extirpo; ex and stirps, root.]

1. To pull or pluck up by the roots; to root out; to eradicate; to destroy totally; as, to extirpate weeds or noxious plants from a field.

2. To eradicate; to root out; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate error or heresy; to extirpate a sect.

3. In surgery, to cut out; to cut off; to eat out; to remove; as, to extirpate a wen.

EX'TIRPATED, participle passive Plucked up by the roots; rooted out; eradicated; totally destroyed.

EX'TIRPATING, participle present tense Pulling up or out by the roots; eradicating; totally destroying.

EXTIRPA'TION, noun The act of rooting out; eradication; excision; total destruction; as the extirpation of weeds from land; the extirpation of evil principles from the heart; the extirpation of a race of men; the extirpation of heresy.

EX'TIRPATOR, noun One who roots out; a destroyer.

EXTOL', verb transitive [Latin extollo; ex and tollo, to raise.]

To raise in words or eulogy; to praise; to exalt in commendation; to magnify. We extol virtues, noble exploits, and heroism. Men are too much disposed to extol the rich and despise the poor.

EXTOL him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah. Psalms 68:4.

EXTOL'LED, participle present tense Exalted in commendation; praised; magnified.

EXTOL'LER, noun One who praises or magnifies; a praiser or magnifier.

EXTOL'LING, participle present tense Praising; exalting by praise or commendation; magnifying.

EXTORS'IVE, adjective [See Extort.] Serving to extort; tending to draw from by compulsion.

EXTORS'IVELY, adverb In an extorsive manner; by extortion.

EXTORT', verb transitive [Latin extortus, from extorqueo, to wrest from; ex and torqueo, to twist.]

1. To draw from by force or compulsion; to wrest or wring from by physical force, by menace, duress, violence, authority, or by an illegal means. Conquerors extort contributions from the vanquished; tyrannical princes extort money from their subjects; officers often extort illegal fees; confessions of guilt are extorted by the rack. A promise extorted by duress is not binding.

2. To gain by violence or oppression.

EXTORT', verb intransitive To practice extortion.

EXTORT'ED, participle passive Drawn from by compulsion; wrested from.

EXTORT'ER, noun One who extorts, or practices extortion.

EXTORT'ING, participle present tense Wresting from by force or undue exercise of power.

EXTOR'TION, noun The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting any thing from a person by force, duress, menaces, authority, or by any undue exercise of power; illegal exaction; illegal compulsion to pay money, or to do some other act. extortion is an offense punishable at common law.

1. Force or illegal compulsion by which any thing is taken from a person.

EXTOR'TIONER, noun One who practices extortion.

Extortioners shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:10.

EXTOR'TIOUS, adjective Oppressive; violent; unjust.

EXTRA, A Latin preposition, denoting beyond or excess; as extra-work, extra-pay, work or pay beyond what is usual or agreed on.

EXTRACT', verb transitive [Latin extractus, from extraho; ex and traho, to draw.]

1. To draw out; as, to extract a tooth.

2. To draw out, as the juices or essence of a substance, by distillation, solution or other means; as, to extract spirit from the juice of the cane; to extract salts from ashes.

3. To take out; to take from.

Woman is her name, of man

EXTRACTed.

4. To take out or select a part; to take a passage or passages from a book or writing.

I have extracted from the pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.

5. In a general sense, to draw from by any means or operation.

EX'TRACT, noun That which is extracted or drawn from something.

1. In literature, a passage taken from a book or writing.

2. In pharmacy, any thing drawn from a substance, as essences, tinctures, etc.; or a solution of the purer parts of a mixed body inspissated by distillation or evaporation, nearly to the consistence of honey.

Any substance obtained by digesting vegetable substances in water, and evaporating them to a solid consistence.

3. In chimistry, a peculiar principle, supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; called also the extractive principle.

4. Extraction; descent. [Not now used.]

EXTRACT'ED, participle passive Drawn or taken out.

EXTRACT'ING, participle present tense Drawing or taking out.

EXTRAC'TION, noun [Latin extractio.] The act of drawing out; as the extraction of a tooth; the extraction of a bone or an arrow from the body; the extraction of a fetus or child in midwifery.

1. Descent; lineage; birth; derivation of persons from a stock or family. Hence, the stock or family from which one has descended. We say, a man is of a noble extraction

2. In pharmacy, the operation of drawing essences, tinctures, etc. from a substance.

3. In arithmetic and algebra, the extraction of roots is the operation of finding the root of a given number of quantity; also, the method or rule by which the operation is performed.

EXTRACT'IVE, adjective That may be extracted.

EXTRACT'IVE, noun The proximate principle of vegetable extracts.

EXTRACT'OR, noun In midwifery, a forceps or instrument for extracting children.

EXTRAFOLIA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin extra, on the outside, and folium, a leaf.]

In botany, growing on the outside of a leaf; as extrafoliaceous stipules.

EXTRAGE'NEOUS, adjective [Latin extra and genus, kind.] Belonging to another kind.

EXTRAJUDI'CIAL, adjective [extra, without, and judicial.]of the proper court, or the ordinary course of legal procedures.

EXTRAJUDI'CIALLY, adverb In a manner out of the ordinary course of legal proceedings.

EXTRALIM'ITARY, adjective [extra and limit.] Being beyond the limit or bounds; as extralimitary land.

EXTRAMIS'SION, noun [Latin extra and mitto, to send.]

A sending out; emission.

EXTRAMUN'DANE, adjective [Latin extra and mundus, the world.]

Beyond the limit of the material world.

EXTRA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin extraneus.] Foreign; not belonging to a thing; existing without; not intrinsic; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter.

Relation is not contained in the real existence of things, but is extraneous and superinduced.

Extraneous fossils, organic remains; exuviae of organized beings, imbedded in the strata of the earth.

EXTRAOR'DINARIES, noun plural Things which exceed the usual order, kind or method. Rarely used in the singular.

EXTRAOR'DINARILY, adverb extror'dinarily. [See Extraordinary.]

In a manner out of the ordinary or usual method; beyond the common course, limits or order; in an uncommon degree; remarkably; particularly; eminently.

The temple of Solomon was extraordinarily magnificent.

EXTRAOR'DINARINESS, noun Uncommonness; remarkableness.

EXTRAOR'DINARY, adjective extror'dinary. [Latin extraordinarius; extra and ordinarius, usual, from ordo, order.]

1. Beyond or out of the common order or method; not in the usual, customary or regular course; not ordinary. extraordinary evils require extraordinary remedies.

2. Exceeding the common degree or measure; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as the extraordinary talents of Shakespeare; the extraordinary powers of Newton; an edifice of extraordinary grandeur.

3. Special; particular; sent for a special purpose, or on a particular occasion; as an extraordinary courier or messenger; an embassador extraordinary; a gazette extraordinary

EXTRAPARO'CHIAL, adjective [extra and parochial.] Not within the limits of any parish.

EXTRAPROFES'SIONAL, adjective [extra and professional.] Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.

Molina was an ecclesiastic, and these studies were extraprofessional

EXTRAPROVIN'CIAL, adjective [extra and provincial.] Not within the same province; not within the jurisdiction of the same archbishop.

EXTRAREG'ULAR, adjective [extra and regular.] Not comprehended with a rule or rules.

EXTRATERRITO'RIAL, adjective Being beyond or without the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction.

EXTRAUGHT, old participle passive of extract.

EXTRAV'AGANCE

EXTRAV'AGANCY, adjective [Latin extra and vagans; vagor, to wander. See Vague.]

1. Literally, a wandering beyond a limit; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course or limit.

2. In writing or discourse, a going beyond the limits of strict truth, or probability; as extravagance of expression or description.

3. Excess of affection, passion or appetite; as extravagance of love, anger, hatred or hunger.

4. Excess in expenditures of property; the expending of money without necessity, or beyond what is reasonable or proper; dissipation.

The income of three dukes was not enough to supply her extravagance

5. In general, any excess or wandering from prescribed limits; irregularity; wildness; as the extravagance of imagination; extravagance of claims or demands.

EXTRAV'AGANCY, a. [L. extra and vagans; vagor, to wander. See Vague.]

EXTRAV'AGANT, adjective Literally, wandering beyond limits.

1. Excessive; exceeding due bounds; unreasonable. The wishes, demands, desires and passions of men are often extravagant

2. Irregular; wild; not within ordinary limits of truth or probability, or other usual bounds; as extravagant flights of fancy.

There is something nobly wild and extravagant in great geniuses.

3. Exceeding necessity or propriety; wasteful; prodigal; as extravagant expenses; an extravagant mode of living.

4. Prodigal; profuse in expenses; as an extravagant man.

He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

EXTRAV'AGANT, noun One who is confined to no general rule.

EXTRAV'AGANTLY, adverb In an extravagant manner; wildly; not within the limits of truth or probability. Men often write and talk extravagantly

1. Unreasonably; excessively. It is prudent not to praise or censure extravagantly

2. In a manner to use property without necessity or propriety, or to no good purpose; expensively, or profusely to an unjustifiable degree; as, to live, eat, drink, or dress extravagantly

EXTRAV'AGANTNESS, noun Excess; extravagance. [Little used.]

EXTRAV'AGANTS, noun In church history, certain decretal epistles, or constitutions of the popes, which were published after the Clementines, and not at first arranged and digested with the other papal constitutions. They were afterward inserted in the body of the canon law.

EXTRAV'AGATE, verb intransitive To wander beyond the limits. [Not used.]

EXTRAVAGA'TION, noun Excess; a wandering beyond limits.

EXTRAV'ASATED, adjective [Latin extra and vasa, vessels.] Forced or let out of its proper vessels; as extravasated blood.

EXTRAVASA'TION, noun The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; the state of being forced or let out of its containing vessels; effusion; as an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

EXTRAVE'NATE, adjective [Latin extra and vena, vein.]

Let out of the veins.

EXTRAVER'SION, noun [Latin extra and versio, a turning.] The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Little used.]

EXTRE'AT, noun Extraction.

EXTRE'ME, adjective [Latin extremus, last.] Outermost; utmost; farthest; at the utmost point, edge or border; as the extreme verge or point of a thing.

1. Greatest; most violent; utmost; as extreme pain, grief, or suffering; extreme joy or pleasure.

2. Last; beyond which there is none; as an extreme remedy.

3. Utmost; worst or best that can exist or be supposed; as an extreme case.

4. Most pressing; as extreme necessity.

Extreme unction, among the Romanists, is the anointing of a sick person with oil, when decrepit with age or affected with some mortal disease, and usually just before death. It is applied to the eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, hands, feet and reins of penitents, and is supposed to represent the grace of God poured into the soul.

Extreme and mean proportion, in geometry, is when a line is so divided, that the whole line is to the greater segment, as the segment is to the less; or when a line is so divided, that the rectangle under the whole line and the lesser segment is equal to the square of the greater segment.

EXTRE'ME, noun The utmost point or verge of a thing; that part which terminates a body; extremity.

1. Utmost point; furthest degree; as the extremes of heat and cold; the extremes of virtue and vice. Avoid extremes. Extremes naturally beget each other.

There is a natural progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny.

2. In logic, the extremes or extreme terms of a syllogism are the predicate and subject. Thus, 'man is an animal: Peter is a man, therefore Peter is an animal; ' the word animal is the greater extreme and man the medium.

3. In mathematics, the extremes are the first and last terms of a proportion; as, when three magnitudes are proportional, the rectangle contained by the extremes is equal contained by the extremes is equal to the square of the mean.

EXTRE'MELY, adverb In the utmost degree; to the utmost point. It is extremely hot or cold; it is extremely painful.

1. In familiar language, very much; greatly.

EXTREM'ITY, noun [Latin extremitas.] The utmost point or side; the verge; the point or border that terminates a thing; as the extremities of a country.

1. The utmost parts. The extremities of the body, in painting and sculpture, are the head, hands and feet; but in anatomy, the term is applied to the limbs only.

2. The utmost point; the highest or furthest degree; as the extremity of pain or suffering; the extremity of cruelty. Even charity and forbearance may be carried to extremity

3. Extreme or utmost distress, straits or difficulties; as a city besieged and reduced to extremity

4. The utmost rigor or violence. The Greeks have endured oppression in its utmost extremity

5. The most aggravated state.

The world is running after farce, the extremity of bad poetry.

EX'TRICABLE, adjective [infra.] That can be extricated.

EX'TRICATE, verb transitive [Latin extrico. The primary verb trico is not in the Latin. We probably see its affinities in the Gr. hair, or a bush of hair, from interweaving, entangling. I suspect that three is contracted from this root; three for threg, folded, or a plexus. The same word occurs in intricate and intrigue; Eng. trick.

1. Properly, to disentangle; hence, to free from difficulties or perplexities; to disembarrass; as, to extricate one from complicated business, from troublesome alliances or other connections; to extricate one's self from debt.

2. To set out; to cause to be emitted or evolved.

EX'TRICATED, participle passive Disentangled; freed from difficulties and perplexities; disembarrassed; evolved.

EX'TRICATING, participle present tense Disentangling; disembarrassing; evolving.

EXTRICA'TION, noun The act of disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.

1. The act of sending out or evolving; as the extrication of heat or moisture from a substance.

EXTRIN'SIC

EXTRIN'SICAL, adjective [Latin extrinsecus.] External; outward; not contained in or belonging to a body. Mere matter cannot move without the impulse of an extrinsic agent. It is opposed to intrinsic.

EXTRIN'SICAL, a. [L. extrinsecus.] External; outward; not contained in or belonging to a body. Mere matter cannot move without the impulse of an extrinsic agent. It is opposed to intrinsic.

EXTRIN'SICALLY, adverb From without; externally.

EXTRUCT', verb transitive [Latin extruo, extructus.] To build; to construct. [Not in use.]

EXTRUC'TION, noun A building. [Not used.]

EXTRUCT'IVE, adjective Forming into a structure.

EXTRUCT'OR, noun A builder; a fabricator; a contriver. [Not used.]

EXTRU'DE, verb transitive [Latin extrudo; ex and trudo, to thrust.

1. To thrust out; to urge, force or press out; to expel; as, to extrude a fetus.

2. To drive away; to drive off.

EXTRU'DED, participle passive Thrust out; driven out or away; expelled.

EXTRU'DING, participle present tense Thrusting out; driving out; expelling.

EXTRU'SION, noun s as z. The act of thrusting or throwing out; a driving out; expulsion.

EXTU'BERANCE

EXTU'BERANCY, noun [Latin extuberans, extubero; ev and tuber, a puff.]

1. In medicine, a swelling or rising of the flesh; a protuberant part.

2. A knob or swelling part of a body.

EXTU'BERANCY, n. [L. extuberans, extubero; ev and tuber, a puff.]

EXTU'BERANT, adjective Swelled; standing out.

EXTU'BERATE, verb intransitive [Latin extubero.] To swell. [Not in use.]

EXTUMES'CENCE, noun [Latin extumescens, extumesco; ex and tumesco, tumeo, to swell.] A swelling or rising. [Little used.]

EXU'BERANCE

EXU'BERANCY, noun [Latin exuberans, exubero; ex and ubero, to fatten; uber, a pap or breast, that is, a swelling or mass.]

1. An abundance; an overflowing quantity; richness; as an exuberance of fertility or fancy.

2. Superfluous abundance; luxuriance.