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Defn: The Muse who presided over music.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of palms, some species of which are elegant trees.
EUTERPEAN
Eu*ter"pe*an a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Euterpe or to music.
EUTEXIA
Eu*tex"i*a, n. [NL., fr. Gr. a being easily melted.] (Physics)
Defn: The principle or process of forming from given components the eutectic alloy, or alloy of maximum fusibility.
EUTHANASIA
Eu`tha*na"si*a n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. euthanasie.]
Defn: An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired. "An euthanasia of
all thought." Hazlitt.
The kindest wish of my friends is euthanasia. Arbuthnot.
EUTHANASY
Eu*than"a*sy, n.
Defn: Same as Euthanasia.
EUTHIOCHROIC
Eu`thi*o*chro"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or denoting, an acid so called. Euthiochroic acid (Chem.), a complex derivative of hydroquinone and sulphonic (thionic) acid. — so called because it contains sulphur, and forms brilliantly colored (yellow) salts.
EUTHYNEURA
Eu`thy*neu"ra, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large division of gastropod molluske, including the
Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata.
EUTROPHY
Eu"tro*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.
EUTYCHIAN
Eu*tych"i*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: A follower of Eutyches [5th century], who held that the divine and the human in the person of Christ were blended together as to constitute but one nature; a monophysite; — opposed to Nestorian.
EUTYCHIANISM
Eu*tych"i*an*ism, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: The doctrine of Eutyches and his followers.
EUXANTHIC
Eux*an"thic a. (Chem.)
Defn: Having a yellow color; pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, euxanthin. Euxanthic acid (Chem.), a yellow, crystalline, organic acid, extracted from euxanthin.
EUXANTHIN
Eux*an"thin, n. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)
Defn: A yellow pigment imported from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow.
EUXENITE
Eux"e*nite, n. Etym: [Gr. (Min.)
Defn: A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals.
EVACATE
E*va"cate, v. t. Etym: [Pref. e- + vacate.]
Defn: To empty. [Obs.] Harvey.
EVACUANT E*vac"u*ant, a. Etym: [L.evacuans, -antis, p. pr. of evacuare: cf. F. évacuant.]
Defn: Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic. — n. (Med.)
Defn: A purgative or cathartic.
EVACUATE
E*vac"u*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evacuated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Evacuating.] Etym: [l. evacuatus, p. p. of evacuare to empty,
nullify; e out + vacuus empty, vacare to be empty. See Vacate.]
1. To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
2. Fig.: To make empty; to deprive. [R.] Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning. Coleriage.
3. To remove; to eject; to void; o discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
4. To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress. The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country. Burke.
5. To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage. [Obs.] Bacon.
EVACUATE
E*vac"u*ate, v. i.
Defn: To let blood [Obs.] Burton.
EVACUATION
E*vac`u*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. evacuatio: cf. F. évacuation.]
1. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging. Specifically: (a) (Mil.) Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc. (b) (Med.) Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
2. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means. Quincy.
3. Abolition; nullification. [Obs.] Hooker. Evacuation day, the anniversary of the day on which the British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25, 1783.
EVACUATIVE
E*vac"u*a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. évacuatif.]
Defn: Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.
EVACUATOR
E*vac"u*a`tor, n.
Defn: One who evacuates; a nullifier. "Evacuators of the law."
Hammond.
EVACUATORY
E*vac"u*a*to*ry, n.
Defn: A purgative.
EVADE
E*vade" (v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evaded; p. pr. & vb. n.. Evading.] Etym:
[L. evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go, walk: cf. F. s'évader. See
Wade.]
Defn: To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. Trench.
EVADE
E*vade", v. t.
1. To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. "Evading from perils." Bacon. Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. Milton.
2. To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these . . . ways. South.
Syn. - To equivocate; shuffle. See Prevaricate.
EVADIBLE
E*vad"i*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being evaded. [R.]
EVAGATION
Ev`a*ga"tion, n. Etym: [L. evagatio, fr. evagari to wander forth: cf.
F. évagation. See Vagary.]
Defn: A wandering about; excursion; a roving. [R.] Ray.
EVAGINATE
E*vag"i*nate, a. [L. evaginatus, p. p., unsheathed. See Evagination.]
Defn: Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.
EVAGINATE
E*vag"i*nate, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Evaginated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Evaginating.]
Defn: To become evaginate; to cause to be evaginate.
EVAGINATION E*vag`i*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. evaginatio an extending, evaginare to unsheathe; e out + vagina sheath.]
Defn: The act of unsheathing.
EVAL
E"val, a. Etym: [L. aevum lifetime, age, eternity.]
Defn: Relating to time or duration. [Obs.]
EVALUATE
E*val"u*ate, v. t. Etym: [See Evaluation.]
Defn: To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.
EVALUATION
E*val`u*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. évaluation, LL. evaluatio.]
Defn: Valuation; appraisement. J. S. Mill.
EVANESCE
Ev`a*nesce", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Evanesced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Evanescing. (.] Etym: [L. evanescere; e out + vanescere to vanish,
fr. vanus empty, vain. See Vain, and cf. Evanish.]
Defn: To vanish away; to because dissipated and disappear, like
vapor.
I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated. De Quincey.
EVANESCENCE
Ev`a*nes"cence, n.
Defn: The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. Rambler.
EVANESCENT Ev`a*nes"cent, a. Etym: [L. evanescens, -entis, p. pr. of evanescere.]
1. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as,
evanescent joys.
So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars.
Hawthorne.
2. Vanishing from notice; imperceptible. The difference between right and wrong, is some petty cases, is almost evanescent. Wollaston.
EVANESCENTLY
Ev`a*nes"cent*ly, adv. In a vanishing manner
Defn: ; imperceptibly. Chalmers.
EVANGEL
E*van"gel, n. Etym: [F. évangile, L. evangelium, Gr. Eu-, and cf.
Evangely.]
Defn: Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel. Milton. Her funeral anthem is a glad evangel. Whittier.
EVANGELIAN
E`van*ge"li*an, a.
Defn: Rendering thanks for favors.
EVANGELIC
E`van*gel"ic, a. Etym: [L. evangelicus, Gr. évangélique. See
Evangel.]
Defn: Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical.
"Evangelic truth." J. Foster.
EVANGELICAL
E`van*gel"ic*al, a.
1. Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history.
2. Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.
3. Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preëminetly orthodox; — technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of "Justification by Faith alone"; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox. Evangelical Alliance, an alliance for mutual strengthening and common work, comprising Christians of different denominations and countries, organized in Liverpool, England, in 1845. — Evangelical Church. (a) The Protestant Church in Germany. (b) A church founded by a fusion of Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany in 1817. — Evangelical Union, a religion sect founded in Scotland in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison; — called also Morisonians.
EVANGELICAL
E`van*gel"ic*al, n.
Defn: One of evangelical principles.
EVANGELICALISM
E`van*gel"ic*al*ism, n.
Defn: Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism. G. Eliot.
EVANGELICALLY
E`van*gel"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In an evangelical manner.
EVANGELICALNESS
E`van*gel"ic*al*ness, n.
Defn: State of being evangelical.
EVANGELICISM
E`van*gel"i*cism n.
Defn: Evangelical principles; evangelism.
EVANGELICITY
E*van`ge*lic"i*ty, n.
Defn: Evangelicism.
EVANGELISM
E*van"gel*ism n.
Defn: The preaching or promulgation of the gospel. Bacon.
EVANGELIST
E*van"gel*ist, n. Etym: [F. évangéliste, L. evangelista, fr. Gr.
Defn: A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specially: (a) A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance. The Apostles, so far as they evangelized, might claim the tittle though there were many evangelists who were not Apistles. Plumptre.
EVANGELISTARY
E*van`gel*is"ta*ry, n. Etym: [LL. evangelistarium.]
Defn: A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service. Porson.
EVANGELISTIC
E*van`gel*is"tic, a.
Defn: Pertaining to the four evangelists; designed or fitted to evangelize; evangelical; as, evangelistic efforts.
EVANGELIZATION
E*van`gel*i*za"tion n.
Defn: The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
The work of Christ's ministers is evangelization. Hobbes.
EVANGELIZE
E*van"gel*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evangelized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Evangelizing]. Etym: [F. évangélisre, LL. evangelizare, fr. Gr.
Defn: To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world. His apostles whom he sends To evangelize the nations. Milton.
EVANGELIZE
E*van"gel*ize, v. i.
Defn: To preach the gospel.
EVANGELY
E*van"ge*ly, n.
Defn: Evangel. [Obs.]
The sacred pledge of Christ's evangely. Spenser.
EVANGILE
E*van"gile, n. Etym: [F. évangile. See Evangel.]
Defn: Good tidings; evangel. [R.] Above all, the Servians . . . read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom. Londor.
EVANID
E*van"id, a. Etym: [L. evanidus, fr. evanescere. See Evanesce.]
Defn: Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as,
evanid color. [Obs.]
They are very transistory and evanid. Barrow.
EVANISH
E*van"ish, v. i. Etym: [Pref. e- + vanish: cf. L. evanescere. See
Evanesce, vanish.]
Defn: To vanish.
Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. Burns.
EVANISHMENT
E*van"ish*ment, n.
Defn: A vanishing; disappearance. [R.] T. Jefferson.
EVAPORABLE
E*vap"o*ra*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation.
EVAPORATE
E*vap"o*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evaporated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Evaporating.] Etym: [L. evaporatus, p. p. of evaporare; e out + vapor
steam or vapor. See Vapor.]
1. To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible.
2. To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation. To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate . . . is a safe way. Bacon.
EVAPORATE
E*vap"o*rate, v. t.
1. To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.
2. To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate apples.
3. To give vent to; to dissipate. [R.] My lord of Essex evaporated his thoughts in a sonnet. Sir. H. Wotton. Evaporating surface (Steam Boilers), that part of the heating surface with which water is in contact.
EVAPORATE
E*vap"o*rate, a. Etym: [L. evaporatus, p. p.]
Defn: Dispersed in vapors. Thomson.
EVAPORATION
E*vap`o*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. evaporatio: cf. F. évaporation.]
1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.
2. The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.
3. That which is evaporated; vapor.
4. (Steam Engine)
Defn: See Vaporization.
EVAPORATIVE
E*vap"o*ra*tive, a. Etym: [L. evaporatius: cf. F. évaporatif.]
Defn: Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.
EVAPORATOR
E*vap"o*ra`tor, n.
Defn: An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.
EVAPOROMETER
E*vap`o*rom"e*ter, n. Etym: [L. evaporare to evaporate + -meter: cf.
F. évapormètre.] (Physics)
Defn: An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.
EVASIBLE
E*va"si*ble, a.
Defn: That may be evaded. [R.]
EVASION
E*va"sion, n. Etym: [L. evasio: cf. F. évasion. See Evade.]
Defn: The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an
argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of
eluding.
Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more. Milton.
Syn.
— Shift; subterfuge; shuffling; prevarication; equivocation.
EVASIVE
E*va"sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. évasif. See Evade.]
Defn: Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request. Pope. Stammered out a few evasive phrases. Macaulay. — E*va"sive*ly , adv. — E*va"sive*ness, n.
EVE
Eve, n. Etym: [See Even, n.]
1. Evening. [Poetic] Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. Thomson.
2. The evening before a holiday, — from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; — called also night churr, and churr owl.
EVECTICS
E*vec"tics, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body. [Obs.]
EVECTION E*vec"tion. Etym: [L. evectio a going up, fr. evehere to carry out; e out + vehere to carry: cf. F évection.]
1. The act of carrying up or away; exaltation. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.
2. (Astron.) (a) An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1º 20'. (b) The libration of the moon. Whewell.
EVEN
E"ven n. Etym: [OE. eve, even, efen, æfen. AS. æfen; akin to OS.
aband, OFries, avend, D. avond, OHG. aband, Icel. aptan, Sw. afton,
Dan. aften; of unknown origin. Cf. Eve, Evening.]
Defn: Evening. See Eve, n. 1. [Poetic.] Shak.
EVEN
E"ven, a. Etym: [AS. efen. efn; akin to OS. eban, D. even, OHG. eban,
G. efen, Icel. jafn, Dan. jevn, Sw. jämn, Goth. ibns. Cf. Anent,
Ebb.]
1. Level, smooth, or equal in surface; not rough; free from irregularities; hence uniform in rate of motion of action; as, even ground; an even speed; an even course of conduct.
2. Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self- possessed; as, an even temper.
3. Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit. And shall lay thee even with the ground. Luke xix. 44.
4. Balanced; adjusted; fair; equitable; impartial; just to both side; owing nothing on either side; — said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are even; an even bargain. To make the even truth in pleasure flow. Shak.
5. Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure. "I know my life so even." Shak.
6. Associate; fellow; of the same condition. [Obs.] "His even servant." Wyclif (Matt.
7. Not odd; capable of division by two without a remainder; — said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are even numbers. Whether the number of the stars is even or odd. Jer. Taylor. On even ground, with equal advantage. — On even keel (Naut.), in a level or horizontal position.
EVEN
E"ven, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evened; p. pr. & vb. n. Evening]
1. To make even or level; to level; to lay smooth. His temple Xerxes evened with the soil. Sir. W. Raleigh. It will even all inequalities Evelyn.
2. To equal [Obs.] "To even him in valor." Fuller.
3. To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits. Shak.
4. To set right; to complete.
5. To act up to; to keep pace with. Shak.
EVEN
E"ven, v. i.
Defn: To be equal. [Obs.] R. Carew.
EVEN
E"ven, adv. Etym: [AS. efne. See Even, a., and cf. E'en.]
1. In an equal or precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well. "Is it even so" Shak. Even so did these Gauls possess the coast. Spenser.
2. Up to, or down to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully;
quite.
Thou wast a soldier Even to Cato's wish. Shak.
Without . . . making us even sensible of the change. Swift.
3. As might not be expected; — serving to introduce what is unexpected or less expected. I have made several discoveries, which appear new, even to those who are versed in critical learning. Addison.
4. At the very time; in the very case. I knew they were had enough to please, even when I wrote them. Dryden.
Note: Even is sometimes used to emphasize a word or phrase. "I have debated even in my soul." Shak. By these presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer. Shak.
EVENE
E*vene", v. i. Etym: [L. evenire. See Event.]
Defn: To happen. [Obs.] Hewyt.
EVENER
E"ven*er, n.
1. One who, or that which makes even.
2. In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.
EVENFALL
E"ven*fall`, n.
Defn: Beginning of evening. "At the quiet evenfall." Tennyson.
EVENHAND
E"ven*hand`, n.
Defn: Equality. [Obs.] Bacon.
EVENHANDED
E"ven*hand`ed, a.
Defn: Fair or impartial; unbiased. "Evenhanded justice." Shak.
— E"ven*hand`ed*ly, adv.
— E"ven*hand`ed*ness, n.
EVENING
E"ven*ing, n. Etym: [AS. æfnung. See even, n., and cf. Eve.]
1. The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum. In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose. Milton.
Note: Sometimes, especially in the Southern parts of the United
States, the afternoon is called evening. Bartlett.
2. The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.
Note: Sometimes used adjectively; as, evening gun. "Evening Prayer." Shak. Evening flower (Bot.), a genus of iridaceous plants (Hesperantha) from the Cape of Good Hope, with sword-shaped leaves, and sweet-scented flowers which expand in the evening. — Evening grosbeak (Zoöl.), an American singing bird (Coccothraustes vespertina) having a very large bill. Its color is olivaceous, with the crown, wings, and tail black, and the under tail coverts yellow. So called because it sings in the evening. — Evening primrose. See under Primrose. — The evening star, the bright star of early evening in the western sky, soon passing below the horizon; specifically, the planet Venus; — called also Vesper and Hesperus. During portions of the year, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are also evening stars. See Morning Star.
EVENLY
E"ven*ly, adv.
Defn: With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.
EVENMINDED
E"ven*mind`ed, a.
Defn: Having equanimity.
EVENNESS
E"ven*ness, n.
Defn: The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition. It had need be something extraordinary, that must warrant an ordinary person to rise higher than his own evenness. Jer. Taylor.
EVENSONG
E"ven*song`, n. Etym: [AS. æfensang.]
Defn: A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong. Wyclif. Milton.
EVENT E*vent", n. Etym: [L. eventus, fr. evenire to happen, come out; e out + venire to come. See Come.]
1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett (Thucyd. ) There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix. 2.
2. An affair in hand; business; enterprise. [Obs.] "Leave we him to his events." Shak.
3. The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates. Dark doubts between the promise and event. Young.
Syn. — Incident; occurrence; adventure; issue; result; termination; consequence; conclusion. — Event, Occurrence, Incident, Circumstance. An event denotes that which arises from a preceding state of things. Hence we speak or watching the event; of tracing the progress of events. An occurrence has no reference to any antecedents, but simply marks that which meets us in our progress through life, as if by chance, or in the course of divine providence. The things which thus meet us, if important, are usually connected with antecedents; and hence event is the leading term. In the "Declaration of Independence" it is said, "When, in the cource of human events, it becomes necessary." etc. Here, occurrences would be out of place. An incident is that which falls into a state of things to which is does not primarily belong; as, the incidents of a journey. The term is usually applied to things of secondary importance. A circumstance is one of the things surrounding us in our path of life. These may differ greatly in importance; but they are always outsiders, which operate upon us from without, exerting greater or less influence according to their intrinsic importance. A person giving an account of a campaign might dwell on the leading events which it produced; might mention some of its striking occurrences; might allude to some remarkable incidents which attended it; and might give the details of the favorable or adverse circumstances which marked its progress.
EVENT E*vent", v. t. Etym: [F. éventer to fan, divulge, LL. eventare to fan, fr., L. e out + ventus wind.]
Defn: To break forth. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
EVENTERATE E*ven"ter*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. e out + venter the belly: cf. F. éventer.]
Defn: To rip open; todisembowel. [Obs.] Sir. T. Brown.
EVENTFUL
E*vent"ful a.
Defn: Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.
EVENTIDE
E"ven*tide` n. Etym: [AS. æfentid. See Tide.]
Defn: The time of evening; evening. [Poetic.] Spenser.
EVENTILATE E*ven"ti*late, v. t. Etym: [L. eventilatus, p. p. of eventilare to fan. See Ventilate.]
1. To winnow out; to fan. [Obs.] Cockeram.
2. To discuss; to ventilate. [Obs.] Johnson.
EVENTILATION
E*ven`ti*la"tion, n.
Defn: The act of eventilating; discussion. [Obs.] Bp. Berkely.
EVENTLESS
E*vent"less, a.
Defn: Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.
EVENTOGNATHI
Ev`en*tog"na*thi, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Dr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.
EVENTRATION E`ven*tra*tion, n. Etym: [L. e out + venter belly.] (Med.) (a) A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen. (b) A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude. (c) The act af disemboweling.
EVENTUAL
E*ven"tu*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. éventiel. See Event.]
1. Coming or happening as a consequence or result; consequential. Burke.
2. Final; ultimate. "Eventual success." Cooper.
3. (Law)
Defn: Dependent on events; contingent. Marshall.
EVENTUALITY
E*ven`tu*al"i*ty, n.; pl. Eventualities. Etym: [Cf. F. éventualité.]
1. The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.
2. (Phren.)
Defn: Disposition to take cognizance of events.
EVENTUALLY
E*ven"tu*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.
EVENTUATE
E*ven"tu*ate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eventuated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Eventuating.]
Defn: To come out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass.
EVENTUATION
E*ven`tu*a"tion, n.
Defn: The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome.
R. W. Hamilton.
EVER Ev"er adv. Etym: [OE. ever, æfre, AS. æfre; perh. akin to AS. a always. Cf. Aye, Age,Evry, Never.] [Sometimes contracted into e'er.]
1. At any time; at any period or point of time. No man ever yet hated his own flesh. Eph. v. 29.
2. At all times; through all time; always; forever. He shall ever love, and always be The subject of by scorn and cruelty. Dryder.
3. Without cessation; continually.
Note: Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of
enforcement. "His the old man e'er a son" Shak.
To produce as much as ever they can. M. Arnold.
Ever and anon, now and then; often. See under Anon.
— Ever is one, continually; constantly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
— Ever so, in whatever degree; to whatever extent; — used to
intensify indefinitely the meaning of the associated adjective or
adverb. See Never so, under Never. "Let him be ever so rich."
Emerson.
And all the question (wrangle e'er so long), Is only this, if God has
placed him wrong. Pope.
You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters.
Thackeray.
— For ever, eternally. See Forever.
— For ever and a day, emphatically forever. Shak.
She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight
for ever and day. Prof. Wilson.
— Or ever (for or ere), before. See Or, ere. [Archaic]
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day,
Horatio! Shak.
Note: Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen, but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever memorable, ever watchful, ever burning.
EVERDURING
Ev`er*dur"ing a.
Defn: Everlasting. Shak.
EVERGLADE
Ev`er*glade, n.
Defn: A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.]
EVERGREEN
Ev"er*green a. (Bot.)
Defn: Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.
EVERGREEN
Ev"er*green, n.
1. (Bot.)
Defn: An evergreen plant.
2. pl.
Defn: Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.
"The funeral evengreens entwine." Keble.
EVERGREEN STATE
Evergreen State.
Defn: Washington; — a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees.
EVERICH; EVERYCH
Ev"er*ich, Ev"er*ych, a. Etym: [OE. see Every.]
Defn: each one; every one; each of two. See Every. [Obs.] Chaucer.
EVERICHON; EVERYCHON Ev`er*ich*on", Ev`er*ych*on", pron. Etym: [OE. everich + oon, on, one. See Every, and One.]
Defn: Every one. [Obs.] Chaucer.
EVERLASTING
Ever*last"ing a.
1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal. "The Everlasting God." Gen. xx1. 33.
2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence. I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Gen xvii. 8. And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. Pope.
Syn. — Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never-ending; infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual; unintermitted; incessant. - Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration; everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end. Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. Shak. Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3. — Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus latifolius) related to the pea; — so called because it is perennial.
EVERLASTING
Ev`er*last"ing, n.
1. Eternal duration, past of future; eternity. From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Ps. xc. 2.
2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.
3. (Bot.)
Defn: A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of the French, the cudweeds, etc.
4. A cloth fabic for shoes, etc. See Lasting.
EVERLASTINGLY
Ev`er*last"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In an everlasting manner.
EVERLASTINGNESS
Ev`er*last"ing*ness, n.
Defn: The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration.
EVERLIVING
Ev`er*liv"ing, a.
1. Living always; immoral; eternal; as, the everliving God.
2. Continual; incessant; unintermitted.
EVERMORE
Ev`er*more", adv.
Defn: During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at
all times; — often used substantively with for.
Seek the Lord . . . Seek his face evermore. Ps. cv. 4.
And, behold, I am alive for evermore. Rev. i. 18.
Which flow from the presence of God for evermore. Tillotson.
I evermore did love you, Hermia. Shak.
EVERNIC
E*ver"nic, a. (Chem.)
Defn: Pertaining to Evernia, a genus of lichens; as, evernic acid.
EVERSE E*verse", v. t. Etym: [L. eversus, p. p. of evertere to turn out, overthrow; e out + vertere to turn. Cf. Evert.]
Defn: To overthrow or subvert. [Obs.] Glanvill.
EVERSION
E*ver"sion, n. Etym: [L. eversio: cf. F. éversion.]
1. The act of eversing; destruction. Jer. Taylor.
2. The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.
EVERSIVE
E*ver"sive, a.
Defn: Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of.
A maxim eversive . . . of all justice and morality. Geddes.
EVERT
E*vert", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Everted; p. pr. & vb. n. Everting.]
Etym: [L. evertere. See Everse.]
1. To overthrow; to subvert. [R.] Ayliffe.
2. To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.
EVERY Ev"er*y, a. & a. pron. Etym: [OE. everich, everilk; AS. ever + ælc each. See Ever, each.]
1. All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. Every door and window was adorned with wreaths of flowers. Macaulay.
2. Every one. Cf. Each. [Obs.] "Every of your wishes." Shak. Daily occasions given to every of us. Hooker. Every each, every one. [Obs.] "Every each of them hath some vices." Burton.. — Every now and then, at short intervals; occasionally; repeatedly; frequently. [Colloq.]
Note: Every may, by way of emphasis, precede the article the with a superlative adjective; as, every, the least variation. Locke.
Syn. — Every, Each, Any. Any denotes one, or some, taken indifferently from the individuals which compose a class. Every differs from each in giving less promonence to the selection of the individual. Each relates to two or more individuals of a class. It refers definitely to every one of them, denoting that they are considered separately, one by one, all being included; as, each soldier was receiving a dollar per day. Every relates to more than two and brings into greater prominence the notion that not one of all considered is excepted; as, every soldier was on service, except the cavalry, that is, all the soldiers, etc. In each division there were four pentecosties, in every pentecosty four enomoties, and of each enomoty there fought in the front rank four [soldiers]. Jowett (Thucyd. ). If society is to be kept together and the children of Adam to be saved from setting up each for himself with every one else his foe. J. H. Newman.
EVERYBODY
Ev"er*y*bod`y, n.
Defn: Every person.
EVERYDAY
Ev"er*y*day`, a.
Defn: Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit
or clothes.
The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment. Sir. J. Herchel.
EVERYONE
Ev"er*y*one`, n. Etym: [OE. everychon.]
Defn: Everybody; — commonly separated, every one.
EVERYTHING
Ev"er*y*thing`, n.
Defn: Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all
things.
More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope.
EVERYWHEN
Ev"er*y*when`, adv.
Defn: At any or all times; every instant. [R.] "Eternal law is silently present everywhere and everywhen." Carlyle.
EVERYWHERE
Ev"er*y*where`, adv.
Defn: In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
EVERYWHERENESS
Ev"er*y*where`ness, n.
Defn: Ubiquity; omnipresence. [R.] Grew.
EVESDROP
Eves"drop`, v. i.
Defn: See Eavesdrop.
EVESDROPPER
Eves"drop`per, n.
Defn: See Eavesdropper.
EVESTIGATE E*ves"ti*gate, v. t. Etym: [L. evestigatus traced out; e out + vestigatus, p. p. of vestigare. See Vestigate.]
Defn: To investigate. [Obs.] Bailey.
EVET
Ev"et, n. Etym: [See Eft, n.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders. [Written also evat.]
EVIBRATE
E*vi"brate, v. t. & i. Etym: [L. evibrare. See Vibrate.]
Defn: To vibrate. [Obs.] Cockeram.
EVICT
E*vict", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Evicting.]
Etym: [L. evictus, p. p. of evincere to overcome completely, evict.
See Evince.]
1. (Law)
Defn: To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount
right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.
The law of England would speedily evict them out of their possession.
Sir. J. Davies.
2. To evince; to prove. [Obs.] Cheyne.
EVICTION
E*vic"tion, n. Etym: [L. evictio: cf. F. éviction.]
1. The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.
2. Conclusive evidence; proof. [Obs.] Full eviction of this fatal truth. South.
EVIDENCE
Ev"i*dence, n. Etym: [F. évidence, L. Evidentia. See Evident.]
1. That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement. Faith is . . . the evidence of things not seen. Heb. xi. 1. O glorious trial of exceeding love Illustrious evidence, example high. Milton.
2. One who bears witness. [R.] "Infamous and perjured evidences." Sir W. Scott.
3. (Law)
Defn: That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; — the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it. Greenleaf. Circumstantial evidence, Conclusive evidence, etc. See under Circumstantial, Conclusive, etc. — Crown's, King's, or Queen's evidence, evidence for the crown. [Eng.] — State's evidence, evidence for the government or the people. [U. S. ] — To turn King's, Queen's or State's evidence, to confess a crime and give evidence against one's accomplices.
Syn.
— Testimony; proof. See Tesimony.
EVIDENCE
Ev"i*dence, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evidenced; p, pr. & vb. n.
Evidencing.]
Defn: To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender. Milton.
EVIDENCER
Ev"i*den*cer, n.
Defn: One whi gives evidence.
EVIDENT Ev"i*dent, a. Etym: [F. évinent, l. evidens, -entis; e out + videns, p. pr. of videre to see. See Vision.]
Defn: Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident. Your honor and your goodness is so evident. Shak. And in our faces evident the sings Of foul concupiscence. Milton.
Syn. — Manifest; plain; clear; obvious; visible; apparent; conclusive; indubitable; palpable; notorious. See Manifest.
EVIDENTIAL
Ev`i*den"tial, a.
Defn: Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially,
relating to the evidences of Christianity. Bp. Fleetwood. "Evidential
tracks." Earle..
— Ev`i*den"tial*ly, adv.
EVIDENTIARY
Ev`i*den"ti*a*ry, a.
Defn: Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential. When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, a mark of, some other fact. J. S. Mill.
EVIDENTLY
Ev"i*dent*ly, adv.
Defn: In an evident manner; clearly; plainly.
Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth. Gal.
iii. 1.
He has evidently in the prime of youth. W. Irving.
EVIDENTNESS
Ev"i*dent*ness, n.
Defn: State of being evident.
EVIGILATION E*vig`i*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. evigilatio; e out + vigilare to be awake. See Vigilant.]
Defn: A waking up or awakening. [Obs.]
EVIL
E*vil a. Etym: [OE. evel, evil, ifel, uvel, AS. yfel; akin to OFries,
evel, D. euvel, OS. & OHG. ubil, G. übel, Goth. ubils, and perh. to
E. over.]
1. Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop. A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit. Matt. vii. 18.
2. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like. Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's approach is seen so terrible. Shak.
3. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days. Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel. Deut. xxii. 19. The owl shrieked at thy birth — an evil sign. Shak. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. Milton. Evil eye, an eye which inflicts injury by some magical or fascinating influence. It is still believed by the ignorant and superstitious that some persons have the supernatural power of injuring by a look. It almost led him to believe in the evil eye. J. H. Newman. — Evil speaking, speaking ill of others; calumny; censoriousness. — The evil one, the Devil; Satan.
Note: Evil is sometimes written as the first part of a compound (with or without a hyphen). In many cases the compounding need not be insisted on. Examples: Evil doer or evildoer, evil speakink or evil- speaking, evil worker, evil wishink, evil-hearted, evil-minded.
Syn. — Mischieveous; pernicious; injurious; hurtful; destructive; wicked; sinful; bad; corrupt; perverse; wrong; vicious; calamitious.
EVIL
E"vil n.
1. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; — opposed to Ant: good. Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. Milton. The evil that men do lives after them. Shak.
2. Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity. The heart of the sons of men is full of evil. Eccl. ix. 3.
3. malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the
scrofula. [R.] Shak.
He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.
Addison.
EVIL
E"vil, adv.
Defn: In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily;
injuriously; unkindly. Shak.
It went evil with his house. 1 Chron. vii. 23.
The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us. Deut. xxvi. 6.
EVIL EYE
E"vil eye`
Defn: . See Evil eye under Evil, a.
EVIL-EYED
E"vil-eyed a.
Defn: Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious. Shak.
EVIL-FAVORED
E"vil-fa`vored, a.
Defn: Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished;
deformed. Bacon.
— E"vil-fa`vored*ness, n. Deut. xvi. 1.
EVILLY
E"vil*ly, adv.
Defn: In an evil manner; not well; ill. [Obs.] "Good deeds evilly bestowed." Shak.
EVIL-MINDED
E"vil-mind`ed, a.
Defn: Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked. — E"vil-mind`ed*ness, n.
EVILNESS
E"vil*ness, n.
Defn: The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.
EVINCE
E*vince", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evinced; p. pr. & vb. n. Evincing.]
Etym: [L. evincere vanquish completely, prevail, succeed in proving;
e out + vincere to vanquish. See Victor, and cf. Evict.]
1. To conquer; to subdue. [Obs.] Error by his own arms is best evinced. Milton.
2. To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence. Common sense and experience must and will evince the truth of this. South.
EVINCEMENT
E*vince"ment, n.
Defn: The act of evincing or proving, or the state of being evinced.
EVINCIBLE
E*vin"ci*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable. Sir. M. Hale. —E*vin"ci*bly, adv.
EVINCIVE
E*vin"cive, a.
Defn: Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.
EVIRATE E"vi*rate, v. t. Etym: [L. eviratus, p. p. of evirare to castrate; e out + vir man.]
Defn: To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
EVIRATION
Ev`i*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. eviratio.]
Defn: Castration. [Obs.]
EVISCERATE
E*vis"cer*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eviscerated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Eviscerating.] Etym: [L. evisceratus, p. p. of eviscerare to
eviscerate; e out + viscera the bowels. See Viscera.]
Defn: To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
EVISCERATION
E*vis`cer*a"tion, a.
Defn: A disemboweling.
EVITABLE
Ev"i*ta*ble, a. Etym: [L. evitabilis: cf. F. évitable.]
Defn: A voidable. [R.] Hooker.
EVITATE Ev"i*tate, v. t. Etym: [L. evitatus, p. p. of evitare to shun; e out + vitare to shun.]
Defn: To shun; to avoid. [Obs.] Shak.
EVITATION
Ev`i*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. evitatio.]
Defn: A shunning; avoidance. [Obs.] Bacon.
EVITE
E*vite", v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. éviter. See Evitate.]
Defn: To shun. [Obs.] Dryton.
EVITERNAL
Ev`i*ter"nal, a. Etym: [L. eviternus, aeternus. See Etern.]
Defn: Eternal; everlasting. [Obs.] — Ev`i*ter"nal*ly, adv. Bp. Hall.
EVITERNITY
Ev`i*ter"ni*ty, n.
Defn: Eternity. [Obs.]
EVOCATE
Ev"o*cate, v. t. Etym: [L. evocatus, p. p. of evocare. See Evoke.]
Defn: To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke. [R.] Stackhouse.
EVOCATION
Ev`o*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. evocatio: cf. F. évocation.]
Defn: The act of calling out or forth. Sir. T. Browne.
The evocation of that better spirit. M. Arnold.
EVOCATIVE
E*vo"ca*tive, a.
Defn: Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing. Evocative power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man. W. Pater.
EVOCATOR
Ev"o*ca`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who calls forth. [R.]
EVOKE
E*voke", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Evoking.] Etym:
[L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F
évoquer. See Voice, and cf. Evocate.]
1. To call out; to summon forth. To evoke the queen of the fairies. T. Warton. A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. De Quincey.
2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] "The cause was evoked to Rome." Hume.
EVOLATIC; EVOLATICAL Ev`o*lat"ic, Ev`o*lat"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. evolare to fly away; e out + volare to fly.]
Defn: Apt to fly away. [Obs. or R.] Blount.
EVOLATION
Ev`o*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. evolatio.]
Defn: A flying out or up. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
EVOLUTE
Ev"o*lute, n. Etym: [L. evolutus unrolled, p. p. of evolvere. See
Evolve.] (Geom.)
Defn: A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.
Note: Any curve may be an evolute, the term being applied to it only in its relation to the involute.
EVOLUTILITY
Ev`o*lu*til"i*ty, n. Etym: [See Evolution.] (Biol.)
Defn: The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self- nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure. Syd. Soc. Lex.
EVOLUTION Ev`o*lu"tion, n. Etym: [L. evolutio an unrolling: cf. F. évolution evolution. See Evolve.]
1. The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.
2. A series of things unrolled or unfolded. "The whole evolution of ages." Dr. H. More.
3. (Geom.)
Defn: The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute. Hutton.
4. (Arith. & Alg.)
Defn: The extraction of roots; — the reverse of involution.
5. (Mil. & Naval)
Defn: A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver. Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.
6. (Biol.) (a) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development. (b) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preëxist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; — opposed to epigenesis.
7. (Metaph.)
Defn: That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs. Evolution is to me series with development. Gladstone.
EVOLUTIONAL
Ev`o*lu"tion*al, a.
Defn: Relating to evolution. "Evolutional changes." H. Spenser.
EVOLUTIONARY
Ev`o*lu"tion*a*ry, a.
Defn: Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.
EVOLUTIONISM
Ev`o*lu"tion*ism, n.
Defn: The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.
EVOLUTIONIST
Ev`o*lu"tion*ist, n.
1. One skilled in evolutions.
2. one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics. Darwin.
EVOLVE
E*volve", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evolved; p. pr. & vb. n. Evolving.]
Etym: [L. evolvere, evolutum; e out + volvere to roll. See Voluble.]
1. To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe. The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul. Sir. M. Hale. The principles which art involves, science alone evolves. Whewell. Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. J. C. Shairp.
2. To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.
EVOLVE
E*volve", v. i.
Defn: To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution. Prior.
EVOLVEMENT
E*volve"ment, n.
Defn: The act of evolving, or the state of being evolved; evolution.
EVOLVENT E*volv"ent, n. Etym: [L. evolvents. -entis, unrolling, p. pr. of evolvere.] (Geom.)
Defn: The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
EVOMIT E*vom"it, v. t. Etym: [L. evomitus, p. p. of evomere to vomit forth; e out + vomere.]
Defn: To vomit. [Obs.]
EVOMITION
Ev`o*mi"tion, n.
Defn: The act of vomiting. [Obs.] Swift.
EVULGATE
E*vul"gate v. t. Etym: [L. evulgatus, p. p. of evulgare to publish.]
Defn: To publish abroad. [Obs.]
EVULGATION
Ev`ul*ga"tion, n.
Defn: A divulging. [Obs.]
EVULSION E*vul"sion, n. Etym: [L. evulsio, fr. evellere, evulsum, to pluck out; e out + vellere to pluck; cf. F. évulsion.]
Defn: The act of plucking out; a rooting out.
EW
Ew, n. Etym: [See Yew.]
Defn: A yew. [Obs.] Chaucer.
EWE
Ewe, n. Etym: [AS. eówu; akin to D. ooi, OHG. awi, ouwi, Icel. ær,
Goth. awe\'edi a flock of sheep, awistr a sheepfold, Lith. avis a
sheep, L. ovis, Gr. avi. *231.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.
EWE-NECKED
Ewe"-necked`, a.
Defn: Having a neck like a ewe; — said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out. Youwatt.
EWER Ew"er, n. Etym: [OF. ewer, euwier, prop. a water carrier, F. évier a washing place, sink, aiguière ewer, L. aquarius, adj., water carrying, n., a water carrier, fr. aqua water; akin to Goth. ahwa water, river, OHG, aha, G. au, aue, meadow. *219. Cf. Aquarium, Aquatic, Island.]
Defn: A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold
water for the toilet.
Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands. Shak.
EWERY; EWRY
Ew"er*y, Ew"ry n. Etym: [From Ewer.]
Defn: An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept. [Enq.] Parker.
EWT
Ewt, n. Etym: [See Newt.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The newt.
EX-
Ex-
Defn: . A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or é-; as, escape, scape, élite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The Greek form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric.
EXACERBATE
Ex*ac"er*bate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exacerrated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exacerrating.] Etym: [L. exacerbatus, p. p. of exacerbare; ex out
(intens.) + acerbare. See Acerbate.]
Defn: To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease. Broughman.
EXACERBATION
Ex*ac`er*ba"tion n. Etym: [Cf. F. exacerbation.]
1. The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.
2. (Med.)
Defn: A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.
EXACERBESCENCE Ex*ac`er*bes"cence, n. Etym: [L. exacerbescens, -entis, p. pr. of exacerbescere, incho. of exacerbare.]
Defn: Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.
EXACERVATION
Ex*ac`er*va"tion, n. Etym: [L. exacervare to heap up exceedingly. See
Ex-, and Acervate.]
Defn: The act of heaping up. [Obs.] Bailey.
EXACINATE
Ex*ac"i*nate, v. t. Etym: [L. ex out + acinus kernel.]
Defn: To remove the kernel form.
EXACINATION
Ex*ac`i*na"tion, n.
Defn: Removal of the kernel.
EXACT Ex*act", a. Etym: [L. exactus precise, accurate, p. p. of exigere to drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine, measure; ex out + agere to drive; cf. F. exact. See Agent, Act.]
1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts. I took a great pains to make out the exact truth. Jowett (Thucyd. )
2. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact. "I see thou art exact of taste." Milton.
3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict. An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason. Shak.
EXACT
Ex*act", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exacting.]
Etym: [From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL. exactare: cf.
OF. exacter. See Exact, a.]
Defn: To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; — followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one. He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. Luke. iii. 13. Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last Dryden. My designs Exact me in another place. Massinger.
EXACT
Ex*act", v. i.
Defn: To practice exaction. [R.]
The anemy shall not exact upon him. Ps. lxxxix. 22.
EXACTER
Ex*act"er, n.
Defn: An exactor. [R.]
EXACTING
Ex*act"ing, a.
Defn: Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold — Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. — Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
EXACTION
Ex*ac"tion, n. Etym: [L. exactio: cf. F. exaction.]
1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my people. Ezek. xlv. 9. Daily new exactions are devised. Shak. Illegal exactions of sheriffs and officials. Bancroft.
2. That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice. Daniel.
EXACTITUDE
Ex*act"i*tude, n. Etym: [Cf. F. exactitude.]
Defn: The quality of being exact; exactness.
EXACTLY
Ex*act"ly, adv.
Defn: In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
EXACTNESS
Ex*act"ness, n.
1. The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.
2. Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business. He had . . . that sort of exactness which would have made him a respectable antiquary. Macaulay.
EXACTOR
Ex*act"or, n. Etym: [L.: cf. F. exacteur.]
Defn: One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
EXACTRESS
Ex*act"ress, n. Etym: [Cf. L. exactrix.]
Defn: A woman who is an exactor. [R.] B. Jonson.
EXACUATE Ex*ac"u*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. exacure; ex out (intens.) + acuere to make sharp.]
Defn: To whet or sharpen. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
— Ex*ac`u*a"tion, n. [Obs.]
EXAERESIS
Ex*ær"e*sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Surg.)
Defn: In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.
EXAGGERATE Ex*ag"ger*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exaggerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exaggerating . ] Etym: [L. exaggeratus , p. p. of exaggerare to heap up; ex out + aggerare to heap up, fr. agger heap, aggerere to bring to; ad to + gerere to bear. See Jest. ]
1. To heap up; to accumulate. [Obs.] "Earth exaggerated upon them [oaks and firs]." Sir M. Hale.
2. To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues. Addison.
EXAGGERATED
Ex*ag"ger*a`ted, a.
Defn: Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth.
— Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly, adv.
EXAGGERATING
Ex*ag"ger*a`ting a.
Defn: That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds.
— Ex*ag"ger*a`ting*ly, adv.
EXAGGERATION
Ex*ag`ger*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. exaggeratio : cf. F. exagération.]
1. The act of heaping or piling up. [Obs.] "Exaggeration of sand." Sir M. Hale.
2. The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement. No need of an exaggeration of what they saw. I. Taylor.
3. (Paint.)
Defn: A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
EXAGGERATIVE
Ex*ag"ger*a*tive, a.
Defn: Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration. "Exaggerative language." Geddes. "Exaggerative pictures." W. J. Linton. — Ex*ag"ger*a*tive*ly, adv. Carlyle.
EXAGGERATOR
Ex*ag"ger*a`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. L. Horner.
EXAGGERATORY
Ex*ag"ger*a*to*ry, a.
Defn: Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative. Johnson.
EXAGITATE Ex*ag"i*tate, v. t. Etym: [L. exagitatus, p. p. of exagitare. See Ex- , and Agitate.]
1. To stir up; to agitate. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.
2. To satirize; to censure severely. [Obs.] Hooker.
EXAGITATION
Ex*ag`i*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. exagitatio : cf. OF. exagitation.]
Defn: Agitation. [Obs.] Bailey.
EXALBUMINOUS
Ex`al*bu"mi*nous, a. Etym: [Pref. ex- + albumen.] (Bot.)
Defn: Having no albumen about the embryo; — said of certain seeds.
EXALT
Ex*alt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exalted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exalting.]
Etym: [L. exaltare; ex out (intens.) + altare to make high, altus
high: cf.F. exalter. See Altitude.]
1. To raise high; to elevate; to lift up. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. Is. xiv. 13. Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes Pope.
2. To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency. Righteousness exalteth a nation. Prov. xiv. 34. He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Luke xiv. 11.
3. To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify. "Exalt ye the Lord." Ps. xcix. 5. In his own grace he doth exalt himself. Shak.
4. To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or
satisfaction; to elate.
They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted.
Dryden.
5. To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument. Is. xxxvii. 23. Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice. Prior.
6. (Alchem.)
Defn: To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies. With chemic art exalts the mineral powers. Pope.
EXALTATE
Ex"al*tate, a. Etym: [L. exaltatus, p. p. of exaltare to exalt.]
(Astrol.)
Defn: Exercising its highest influence; — said of a planet. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
EXALTATION
Ex`al*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. exaltatio: cf. F.exaltation.]
1. The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. Wondering at my flight, and change To this high exaltation. Milton.
2. (Alchem.)
Defn: The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.
3. (Astrol.)
Defn: That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.
EXALTED
Ex*alt"ed, a.
Defn: Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified;
sublime.
Wiser far than Solomon, Of more exalted mind. Milton.
Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict
scrutiny. Ames.
— Ex*alt"ed*ly, adv.
— Ex*alt"ed*ness, n. "The exaltedness of some minds." T. Gray.
EXALTER
Ex*alt"er, n.
Defn: One who exalts or raises to dignity.
EXALTMENT
Ex*alt"ment, n.
Defn: Exaltation. [Obs.] Barrow.
EXAMEN
Ex*a"men, n. Etym: [L., the tongue of a balance, examination; for
exagmen, fr. exigere to weigh accurately, to treat: cf. F. examen.
See Exact, a.]
Defn: Examination; inquiry. [R.] "A critical examen of the two pieces." Cowper.
EXAMETRON
Ex*am"e*tron, n. Etym: [NL. See Hexameter.]
Defn: An hexameter. [Obs.] Chaucer.
EXAMINABLE
Ex*am"i*na*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being examined or inquired into. Bacon.
EXAMINANT
Ex*am"i*nant, n. Etym: [L. examinans, -antis, examining.]
1. One who examines; an examiner. Sir W. Scott.
2. One who is to be examined. [Obs.] H. Prideaux.
EXAMINATE
Ex*am"i*nate, n. Etym: [L. examinatus, p. p. of examinare. See
Examine. ]
Defn: A person subjected to examination. [Obs.] Bacon.
EXAMINATION
Ex*am`i*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. examinatio: cf. F. examination.]
1. The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
2. A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry. He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the examinations. Macaulay. Examination in chief, or Direct examination (Law), that examination which is made of a witness by a party calling him. — Cross-examination, that made by the opposite party. — Reëxamination, or Re-direct examination, that made by a party calling a witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross- examination.
Syn. — Search; inquiry; investigation; research; scrutiny; inquisition; inspection; exploration.
EXAMINATOR
Ex*am"i*na`tor, n. Etym: [L.: cf. F. examinateur.]
Defn: An examiner. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
EXAMINE
Ex*am"ine, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Examined; p. pr. & vb. n. Examining.]
Etym: [L. examinare, examinatum, fr. examen, examinis: cf. F.
examiner. See Examen.]
1. To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question. Examine well your own thoughts. Chaucer. Examine their counsels and their cares. Shak.
2. To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc. The offenders that are to be examined. Shak.
Syn. — To discuss; debate; scrutinize; search into; investigate; explore. See Discuss.
EXAMINEE
Ex*am`i*nee", n.
Defn: A person examined.
EXAMINER
Ex*am"in*er, n.
Defn: One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.
EXAMINERSHIP
Ex*am"in*er*ship, n.
Defn: The office or rank of an examiner.
EXAMINING
Ex*am"in*ing, a.
Defn: Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.
EXAMPLARY
Ex"am*pla*ry, a. Etym: [From Example, cf. Exemplary.]
Defn: Serving for example or pattern; exemplary. [Obs.] Hooker.
EXAMPLE Ex*am"ple, n. Etym: [A later form for ensample, fr. L. exemplum, orig., what is taken out of a larger quantity, as a sample, from eximere to take out. See Exempt, and cf. Ensample, Sample.]
1. One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.
2. That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or
copy.
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as John xiii. 15.
I gave, thou sayest, the example; I led the way. Milton.
3. That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model. Such temperate order in so fierce a cause Doth want example. Shak.
4. That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning. Hang him; he'll be made an example. Shak. Now these things were our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 1 Cor. x. 6.
5. An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.
Syn. — Precedent; case; instance. — Example, Instance. The discrimination to be made between these two words relates to cases in which we give "instances" or "examples" of things done. An instance denotes the single case then "standing" before us; if there be others like it, the word does not express this fact. On the contrary, an example is one of an entire class of like things, and should be a true representative or sample of that class. Hence, an example proves a rule or regular course of things; an instance simply points out what may be true only in the case presented. A man's life may be filled up with examples of the self- command and kindness which marked his character, and may present only a solitary instance of haste or severity. Hence, the word "example" should never be used to describe what stands singly and alone. We do, however, sometimes apply the word instance to what is really an example, because we are not thinking of the latter under this aspect, but solely as a case which "stands before us." See Precedent.
EXAMPLE
Ex*am"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exampled; p. pr. & vb. n. Exampling.]
Defn: To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance. [Obs.] "I may example my digression by some mighty precedent." Shak. Burke devoted himself to this duty with a fervid assiduity that has not often been exampled, and has never been surpassed. J. Morley.
EXAMPLELESS
Ex*am"ple*less, a.
Defn: Without or above example. [R.]
EXAMPLER
Ex*am"pler, n. Etym: [See Exemplar, Example, and cf. Sampler.]
Defn: A pattern; an exemplar. [Obs.]
EXAMPLESS
Ex*am"pless, a.
Defn: Exampleless. [Wrongly formed.] B. Jonson.
EXANGUIOUS
Ex*an"gui*ous, a.
Defn: Bloodless. [Obs.] See Exsanguious. Sir T. Browne.
EXANGULOUS
Ex*an"gu*lous, a. Etym: [Pref ex- + angulous.]
Defn: Having no corners; without angles. [R.]
EXANIMATE Ex*an"i*mate, a. Etym: [L. exanimatus, p. p. of exanimare to deprive of life or spirit; ex out + anima air, breath, life, spirit.]
1. Lifeless; dead. [R.] "Carcasses exanimate." Spenser.
2. Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. [R.] "Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love." Thomson.
EXANIMATE
Ex*an"i*mate, v. t.
Defn: To deprive of animation or of life. [Obs.]
EXANIMATION
Ex*an`i*ma"tion, n.Etym: [L. exanimatio.]
Defn: Deprivation of life or of spirits. [R.] Bailey.
EXANIMOUS Ex*an"i*mous, a. Etym: [L. exanimus, exanimis; ex out, without + anima life.]
Defn: Lifeless; dead. [Obs.] Johnson.
EXANNULATE
Ex*an"nu*late, a. Etym: [Pref. ex- + annulate.] (Bot.)
Defn: Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; — said of certain genera of ferns.
EXANTHEM
Ex*an"them, n.
Defn: Same as Exanthema.
EXANTHEMA
Ex`an*the"ma, n.; pl. Exanthemata. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.exanthème.]
(Med.)
Defn: An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; — sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.
EXANTHEMATIC; EXANTHEMATOUS
Ex*an`the*mat"ic, Ex`an*them"a*tous, a.
Defn: Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.
EXANTHESIS
Ex`an*the"sis, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. Exanthema. ] (Med.)
Defn: An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.
EXANTLATE Ex*ant"late, v. t. Etym: [L. exantlatus, p. p. of exantlare, exanclare, to endure.]
Defn: To exhaust or wear out. [Obs.] "Seeds . . . wearied or exantlated." Boyle.
EXANTLATION
Ex`ant*la"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. exantlation.]
Defn: Act of drawing out ; exhaustion. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
EXARATE Ex"a*rate, v. t. Etym: [L. exaratus, p. p. of exarare to plow up, to write; ex out + arare to plow.]
Defn: To plow up; also, to engrave; to write. [Obs.] Blount.
EXARATION
Ex`a*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. exaratio.]
Defn: Act of plowing; also, act of writing. [Obs.] Bailey.
EXARCH
Ex"arch, n. Etym: [L. exarchus, Gr. exarque.]
Defn: A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.
EXARCHATE Ex*ar"chate, n. Etym: [LL. exarchatus, fr. L. exarchus: cf. F. exarchat.]
Defn: The office or the province of an exarch. Jer. Taylor.
EXARILLATE
Ex*ar"il*late, a. Etym: [Pref. ex- + arillate.] (Bot.)
Defn: Having no aril; — said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.
EXARTICULATE
Ex`ar*tic"u*late, a. Etym: [Pref. ex- + articulate.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having but one joint; — said of certain insects.
EXARTICULATION
Ex`ar*tic`u*la"tion, n. Etym: [Pref. ex- + articulation.]
Defn: Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. Bailey.
EXASPERATE Ex*as"per*ate, a. Etym: [L. exasperatus, p. p. of exsasperare to roughen, exasperate; ex out (intens.) + asperare to make rough, asper rough. See Asperity.]
Defn: Exasperated; imbittered. [Obs.] Shak.
Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs.
Browning.
EXASPERATE
Ex*as"per*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exsasperated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exasperating.]
1. To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings. To exsasperate them against the king of France. Addison.
2. To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity. To exasperate the ways of death. Sir T. Browne.
Syn.
— To irritate; provoke. See Irritate.
EXASPERATER
Ex*as"per*a`ter, n.
Defn: One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.
EXASPERATION
Ex*as`per*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. exasperatio: cf. F. exaspération.]
1. The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger. Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits. South.
2. Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation. "Exasperation of the fits." Sir H. Wotton.
EXASPIDEAN
Ex`as*pid"e*an, a. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having the anterior scute
EXAUCTORATE
Ex*auc"tor*ate, v. t.
Defn: See Exauthorate. [Obs.]
EXAUCTORATION
Ex*auc`tor*a"tion, n.
Defn: See Exauthoration.
EXAUGURATE Ex*au"gu*rate, v. t. Etym: [L. exauguratus, p. p. of exaugurare to profane; ex out + augurari to act as an augur, fr. augur. ]
Defn: To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow.
[Obs.] Holland.
EXAUGURATION
Ex*au`gu*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. exauguratio desecration.]
Defn: The act of exaugurating; desecration. [Obs.]
EXAUTHORATE Ex*au"thor*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. exauctoratus, p. p. of exauctorare to dismiss; ex out + auctorare to bind to something, to hire, fr. auctor. See Author.]
Defn: To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge.
[Obs.]
Exauthorated for their unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.
EXAUTHORATION
Ex*au`thor*a"tion, n.
Defn: Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration. [Obs.] Jer.
Taylor.
EXAUTHORIZE
Ex*au"thor*ize, v. t. Etym: [Pref. ex- + authorize.]
Defn: To deprive of uthority. [Obs.] Selden.
EXAUTHORIZE
Ex*au"thor*ize, v. t. Etym: [Pref. ex.]
Defn: To deprive of authority. [Obs.] Selden.
EXCALCEATE Ex*cal"ce*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. excalceatus, p. p. of excalceare to unshoe. See Calceated.]
Defn: To deprive of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.
EXCALCEATION
Ex*cal`ce*a"tion, n.
Defn: The act of depriving or divesting of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.
EXCALFACTION
Ex`cal*fac"tion, n. Etym: [L. excalfactio.]
Defn: A heating or warming; calefaction. [Obs.] Blount.
EXCALFACTIVE Ex`cal*fac"tive, a. Etym: [L. excalfacere to warm; ex out (intens.) + calfacere to warm.]
Defn: Serving to heat; warming. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
EXCALFACTORY
Ex`cal*fac"to*ry, a. Etym: [L. excalfactorius.]
Defn: Heating; warming. [Obs.] Holland.
EXCALIBUR
Ex*cal"i*bur, n.
Defn: The name of King Arthur's mythical sword. [Written also
Excalibar, Excalibor, Escalibar, and Caliburn.] Tennyson.
EXCAMB; EXCAMBIE Ex*camb", Ex*cam"bie, v. t. Etym: [LL. excambiare, excambire; L. ex out + cambire. See Change, and cf. Exchange.] (Scots Law)
Defn: To exchange; — used with reference to transfers of land.
EXCAMBION; EXCAMBIUM
Ex*cam"bi*on, Ex*cam"bi*um, n. Etym: [LL. excambium. See Excamb.]
(Scots Law)
Defn: Exchange; barter; — used commonly of lands.
EXCANDESCENCE
Ex`can*des"cence, n. Etym: [L. excandescentia.]
1. A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence. [R.]
2. Violent anger; a growing angry. [Obs.] Blount.
EXCANDESCENT Ex`can*des"cent, a. Etym: [L. excandescens, p. pr. of excandescere to take fire, glow; ex out (intens.) + candescere to begin to glisten or glow, fr. candere. See Candid.]
Defn: White or glowing with heat. [R.] Ure.
EXCANTATION
Ex`can*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. excantare to charm out. See Ex, and
Chant.]
Defn: Disenchantment by a countercharm. [Obs.] Gayton.
EXCARNATE Ex*car"nate, v. t. Etym: [LL. excarnatus, p. p. of excarnare; L. ex out + caro, carnis, flesh.]
Defn: To deprive or clear of flesh. Grew.
EXCARNATION
Ex`car*na"tion, n.
Defn: The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; — opposed to incarnation.
EXCARNIFICATE Ex*car"ni*fi*cate, v. t. Etym: [L. ex out + LL. carnificatus, p. p. carnificare to carnify; cf. L. excarnificare to tear to pieces, torment. See Carnify.]
Defn: To clear of flesh; to excarnate. Dr. H. More.
EXCARNIFICATION
Ex*car`ni*fi*ca"tion, n.
Defn: The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation. Johnson.
EXCAVATE
Ex"ca*vate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excavated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Excavating.] Etym: [L. excavatus, p. p. of excavare to excavate; ex
out + cavare to make hollow, cavus hollow. See Cave.]
1. To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
2. To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
3. (Engin.)
Defn: To dig out and remove, as earth. The material excavated was usually sand. E. L. Corthell. Excavating pump, a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.
EXCAVATION
Ex`ca*va"tion, n. Etym: [L. excavatio: cf. F. excavation.]
1. The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
2. A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. "A winding excavation." Glover.
3. (Engin.) (a) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel. (b) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity. The delivery of the excavations at a distance of 250 feet. E. L. Corthell.
EXCAVATOR
Ex"ca*va`tor, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.
EXCAVE
Ex*cave", v. t. Etym: [L. excavare.]
Defn: To excavate. [Obs.] Cockeram.
EXCECATE Ex*ce"cate, v. t. Etym: [L. excaecatus, p. p. of excaecare to blind; ex (intens.) + caecare to blind, caecus blind.]
Defn: To blind. [Obs.] Cockeram.
EXCECATION
Ex`ce*ca"tion, n.
Defn: The act of making blind. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.
EXCEDENT
Ex*ced"ent, n. Etym: [L. excedens, -entis, p. pr. of excedere. See
Exceed, v. t.]
Defn: Excess. [R.]
EXCEED
Ex*ceed", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exceeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exceeding.]
Etym: [L. excedere, excessum, to go away or beyond; ex out + cedere
to go, to pass: cf. F. excéder. See Cede.]
Defn: To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; — used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc. ; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours. Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days. Shak. Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Pope.
Syn.
— To outdo; surpass; excel; transcend; outstrip; outvie; overtop.
EXCEED
Ex*ceed", v. i.
1. To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure. "In our reverence to whom, we can not possibly exceed." Jer. Taylor. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed. Deut. xxv. 3.
2. To be more or greater; to be paramount. Shak.
EXCEEDABLE
Ex*ceed"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of exceeding or surpassing. [Obs.] Sherwood.
EXCEEDER
Ex*ceed"er, n.
Defn: One who exceeds. Bp. Montagu.
EXCEEDING
Ex*ceed"ing, a.
Defn: More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. — Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
EXCEEDING
Ex*ceed"ing, adv.
Defn: In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly. [Archaic. It is
not joined to verbs.] "The voice exceeding loud." Keble.
His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow. Mark ix. 3.
The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea. Sir W. Raleigh.
EXCEEDINGLY
Ex*ceed"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.
EXCEL
Ex*cel", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Excelling.]
Etym: [L. excellere, excelsum; ex out + a root found in culmen
height, top; cf. F. exceller. See Culminate, Column.]
1. To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense. Excelling others, these were great; Thou, greater still, must these excel. Prior. I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. Eccl. ii. 13.
2. To exceed or go beyond; to surpass. She opened; but to shut Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood. Milton.
EXCEL
Ex*cel", v. i.
Defn: To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or
acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in
mathematics, or classics.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. Gen. xlix. 4.
Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel. Pope.
EXCELLENCE
Ex"cel*lence, n. Etym: [F. excellence, L. excellentia.]
1. The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence. Milton.
2. An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue. With every excellence refined. Beattie.
3. A title of honor or respect; — more common in the form
excellency.
I do greet your excellence With letters of commission from the king.
Shak.
Syn. — Superiority; preëminence; perfection; worth; goodness; purity; greatness.
EXCELLENCY
Ex"cel*len*cy, n.; pl. Excellencies (.
1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority. His excellency is over Israel. Ps. lxviii. 34. Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency. Hooker.
2. A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.
EXCELLENT Ex"cel*lent, a. Etym: [F. excellent, L. excellens, -entis, p. pr. of excellere. See Excel.]
1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action. To love . . . What I see excellent in good or fair. Milton.
2. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; — used with words of a bad significance. [Obs. or Ironical] "An excellent hypocrite." Hume. Their sorrows are most excellent. Beau. & Fl.
Syn. — Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite; transcendent; admirable; worthy.
EXCELLENT
Ex"cel*lent, adv.
Defn: Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [Obs.] "This comes off well and excellent." Shak.
EXCELLENTLY
Ex"cel*lent*ly, adv.
1. In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.
2. In a high or superior degree; — in this literal use, not implying worthiness. [Obs.] When the whole heart is excellently sorry. J. Fletcher.
EXCELSIOR Ex*cel"si*or, a. Etym: [L., compar. of excelsus elevated, lofty, p. p. of excellere. See Excel, v. t.]
Defn: More lofty; still higher; ever upward.
EXCELSIOR
Ex*cel"si*or, n.
Defn: A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.
EXCENTRAL
Ex*cen"tral, a. Etym: [Pref. ex.] (Bot.)
Defn: Out of the center.
EXCENTRIC; EXCENTRICAL
Ex*cen"tric, Ex*cen"tric*al, a.
1. Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. Gray.
EXCENTRICITY
Ex`cen*tric"i*ty
Defn: . (Math.) Same as Eccentricity.
EXCEPT
Ex*cept", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excepting.]
Etym: [L. exceptus, p. p. of excipere to take or draw out, to except;
ex out + capere to take: cf. F. excepter. See Capable.]
1. To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet.
2. To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] Shak.
EXCEPT
Ex*cept", v. i.
Defn: To take exception; to object; — usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony. Except thou wilt except against my love. Shak.
EXCEPT Ex*cept", prep. Etym: [Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode.]
Defn: With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting. God and his Son except, Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned. Milton.
Syn. — Except, Excepting, But, Save, Besides. Excepting, except, but, and save are exclusive. Except marks exclusion more pointedly. "I have finished all the letters except one," is more marked than "I have finished all the letters but one." Excepting is the same as except, but less used. Save is chiefly found in poetry. Besides (lit., by the side of) is in the nature of addition. "There is no one here except or but him," means, take him away and there is nobody present. "There is nobody here besides him," means, hi is present and by the side of, or in addition to, him is nobody. "Few ladies, except her Majesty, could have made themselves heard." In this example, besides should be used, not except.
EXCEPT
Ex*cept", conj.
Defn: Unless; if it be not so that.
And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Gen.
xxxii. 26.
But yesterday you never opened lip, Except, indeed, to drink.
Tennyson.
Note: As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except.
EXCEPTANT
Ex*cept"ant, a.
Defn: Making exception.
EXCEPTING
Ex*cept"ing, prep. & conj.
Defn: , but properly a participle. With rejection or exception of;
excluding; except. "Excepting your worship's presence." Shak.
No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself.
Lubbock.
EXCEPTION
Ex*cep"tion, n. Etym: [L. exceptio: cf. F. exception.]
1. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
2. That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions. Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark, Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark. Cowper.
Note: Often with to.
That proud exception to all nature's laws. Pope.
3. (Law)
Defn: An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted. Burrill.
4. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against. I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation]. Bentley. He . . . took exception to the place of their burial. Bacon. She takes exceptions at your person. Shak. Bill of exceptions (Law), a statement of exceptions to the decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a cause, made for the purpose of putting the points decided on record so as to bring them before a superior court or the full bench for review.
EXCEPTIONABLE
Ex*cep"tion*a*ble, a.
Defn: Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
— Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n.
This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole
poem. Addison.
EXCEPTIONAL
Ex*cep"tion*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. exceptionnel.]
Defn: Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence,
better than the average; superior. Lyell.
This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett (Th. )
— Ex*cep"tion*al*ly(#), adv.
EXCEPTIONER
Ex*cep"tion*er, n.
Defn: One who takes exceptions or makes objections. [Obs.] Milton.
EXCEPTIONLESS
Ex*cep"tion*less, a.
Defn: Without exception.
A universal, . . . exceptionless disqualification. Bancroft.
EXCEPTIOUS
Ex*cep"tious, a.
Defn: Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious.
[Obs.]
At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious. South.
— Ex*cep"tious*ness, n. [Obs.] Barrow.
EXCEPTIVE
Ex*cept"ive, a.
Defn: That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. I. Watts. A particular and exceptive law. Milton.
EXCEPTLESS
Ex*cept"less, a.
Defn: Not exceptional; usual. [Obs.]
My general and exceptless rashness. Shak.
EXCEPTOR
Ex*cept"or, n. Etym: [L., a scribe.]
Defn: One who takes exceptions. T. Burnet.
EXCEREBRATION Ex*cer`e*bra"tion, n. Etym: [L. excerebratus deprived of brains; ex out + cerebrum brain.]
Defn: The act of removing or beating out the brains.
EXCEREBROSE
Ex*cer"e*brose`, a. Etym: [See Excerebration.]
Defn: Brainless. [R.]
EXCERN
Ex*cern", v. t. Etym: [L. excernere. See Excrete.]
Defn: To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. [R.] Bacon.
EXCERNENT
Ex*cern"ent, a. Etym: [See Excern.] (Physiol.)
Defn: Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.
EXCERP Ex*cerp", v. t. Etym: [L. excerpere, excerptum; ex out + carpere to pick, gather. See Harvest, and cf. Scarce, a.]
Defn: To pick out. [Obs.] Hales.
EXCERPT
Ex*cerpt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excerpted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Excerpting.] Etym: [From L. excerptus, p. p. See Excerp.]
Defn: To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.
Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.
EXCERPT
Ex*cerp"t (277), n.
Defn: An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.
EXCERPTION
Ex*cerp"tion, n. Etym: [L. excerptio.]
1. The act of excerpting or selecting. [R.]
2. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract. [R.] His excerptions out of the Fathers. Fuller.
EXCERPTIVE
Ex*cerp"tive, a.
Defn: That excerpts, selects, or chooses. D. L. Mackenzie.
EXCERPTOR
Ex*cerp"tor, n.
Defn: One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.
EXCESS Ex*cess", n. Etym: [OE. exces, excess, ecstasy, L. excessus a going out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go beyond: cf. F. excès. See Exceed.]
1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shak. That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. Walsh.
2. An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation. Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. Eph. v. 18. Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. Milton.
3. The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other. Spherical excess (Geom.), the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
EXCESSIVE
Ex*cess"ive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. excessif.]
Defn: Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.
Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. Shak.
Syn. — Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous —Ex*cess*ive*ly, adv. -Ex*cess"ive*ness, n.
EXCHANGE
Ex*change", n. Etym: [OE. eschange, eschaunge, OF. eschange, fr.
eschangier, F. échanger, to exchange; pref. ex- out + F. changer. See
Change, and cf. Excamb.]
1. The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.
2. The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views.
3. The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another. Shak.
4. (Com.)
Defn: The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.
Note: A in London is creditor to B in New York, and C in London owes 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.
5. (Law)
Defn: A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple. Blackstone.
6. The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change. Arbitration of exchange. See under Arbitration. — Bill of exchange. See under Bill. — Exchange broker. See under Broker. — Par of exchange, the established value of the coin or standard of value of one country when expressed in the coin or standard of another, as the value of the pound sterling in the currency of France or the United States. The par of exchange rarely varies, and serves as a measure for the rise and fall of exchange that is affected by the demand and supply. Exchange is at par when, for example, a bill in New York, for the payment of one hundred pounds sterling in London, can be purchased for the sum. Exchange is in favor of a place when it can be purchased there at or above par. — Telephone exchange, a central office in which the wires of any two telephones or telephone stations may be connected to permit conversation.
Syn.
— Barter; dealing; trade; traffic; interchange.
EXCHANGE
Ex*change", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exchanged;p. pr. & vb. n.
Exchanging.] Etym: [Cf.OF. eschangier, F. échanger. See Exchange, n.]
1. To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; — usually followed by for before the thing received. Exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparking pebble or a diamond. Locke.
2. To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing as, to exchange a palace for cell. And death for life exchanged foolishly. Spenser. To shift his being Is to exchange one misery with another. Shak.
3. To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats. Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Shak.
Syn. — To barter; change; commute; interchange; bargain; truck; swap; traffic.
EXCHANGE
Ex*change", v. i.
Defn: To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.
EXCHANGEABILITY
Ex*change`a*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.
EXCHANGEABLE
Ex*change"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf.F. échangeable.]
1. Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged. The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe. Marshall.
2. Available for making exchanges; ratable. "An exchangeable value." J. S. Mill.
EXCHANGEABLY
Ex*change"a*bly, adv.
Defn: By way of exchange.
EXCHANGE EDITOR
Ex*change" ed"i*tor.
Defn: An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
EXCHANGER
Ex*chan"ger, n.
Defn: One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. Matt.
EXCHEAT
Ex*cheat", n.
Defn: See Escheat. [Obs.] Spenser.
EXCHEATOR
Ex*cheat"or, n.
Defn: See Escheator. [Obs.]
EXCHEQUER Ex*cheq"uer, n. Etym: [OE. escheker, OF. eichekier, fr. LL. scaccarium. See Checker, Chess, Check.]
1. One of the superior courts of law; — so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table. [Eng.]
Note: The exchequer was a court of law and equity. In the revenue department, it had jurisdiction over the proprietary rights of the crown against subjects; in the common law department, it administered justice in personal actions between subject and subject. A person proceeding against another in the revenue department was said to exchequer him. The judges of this court were one chief and four puisne barons, so styled. The Court of Exchequer Chamber sat as court of error in which the judgments of each of the superior courts of common law, in England, were subject to revision by the judges of the other two sitting collectively. Causes involving difficult questions of law were sometimes after argument, adjourned into this court from the other courts, for debate before judgment in the court below. Recent legislation in England (1880) has abolished the Court of Exchequer and the Court of Exchequer Chamber, as distinct tribunals, a single board of judiciary, the High Court of Justice, being established for the trial of all classes of civil cases. Wharton.
2. The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low. Barons of the exchequer. See under Baron. — Chancellor of the exchequer. See under Chancellor. — Exchequer bills or bonds (Eng.), bills of money, or promissory bills, issued from the exchequer by authority of Parliament; a species of paper currency emitted under the authority of the government, and bearing interest.
EXCHEQUER
Ex*cheq"uer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exchequered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exchequering.]
Defn: To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of
Exchequer.
EXCIDE
Ex*cide", v. t. Etym: [L. excidere, excisum; ex out + caedere to cut.
See Concise, and cf. Excise to cut off.]
Defn: To cut off. [R.]
EXCIPIENT
Ex*cip"i*ent, a. Etym: [L. excipients, -entis, p. pr. of exipere. See
Except, v. t.]
Defn: Taking an exception.
EXCIPIENT
Ex*cip"i*ent, n.
1. An exceptor. [R.]
2. (Med.)
Defn: An inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents. Chambers.
EXCIPLE; EXCIPULUM
Ex"ci*ple, Ex*cip"u*lum, n. Etym: [NL. excipulum, fr. L. excipere.
See Except.] (Bot.)
Defn: The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.
EXCISABLE
Ex*cis"a*ble, a.
Defn: Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity.
EXCISE Ex*cise", n. Etym: [Apparently fr. L. excisum cut off, fr. excidere to cut out or off; ex out, off + caedere to cut; or, as the word was formerly written accise, fr. F. accise, LL. accisia, as if fr. L. accidere, accisum, to cut into; ad + caedere to cut; but prob. transformed fr. OF. assise, LL. assisa, assisia, assize. See Assize, Concise.]
1. In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system. The English excise system corresponds to the internal revenue system in the United States. Abbot. An excise . . . is a fixed, absolute, and direct charge laid on merchandise, products, or commodities. 11 Allen's (Mass. ) Rpts.
2. That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes. [Eng.]
EXCISE
Ex*cise", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excised; p. pr. & vb. n. Excising.]
1. To lay or impose an excise upon.
2. To impose upon; to overcharge. [Prov. Eng.]
EXCISE
Ex*cise", v. t. Etym: [See Excide.]
Defn: To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
EXCISEMAN
Ex*cise"man, n.; pl. Excisemen (.
Defn: An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty. Macaulay.
EXCISION
Ex*ci"sion, n. Etym: [L. excisio: cf. F. excision. See Excide.]
1. The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction. Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision. Atterbury.
2. (Eccl.)
Defn: The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.
3. (Surg.)
Defn: The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument. Dunglison.
EXCITABILITY
Ex*cit"a*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. excitabilité.]
1. The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.
2. (Physiol.)
Defn: The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.
EXCITABLE
Ex*cit"a*ble, a. Etym: [L. excitabilis inciting: cf. F. excitable.]
Defn: Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
EXCITANT Ex*cit"ant, a. Etym: [L. excitans, -antis, p. pr. of excitare: cf. F. excitant.]
Defn: Tending to excite; exciting.
EXCITANT
Ex*cit"ant, n. (Physiol.)
Defn: An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.
EXCITATE
Ex*cit"ate, v. t. Etym: [L. excitatus, p.p. of excitare. See Excite.]
Defn: To excite. [Obs.] Bacon.
EXCITATION
Ex`ci*ta"tion n. Etym: [L. excitatio: cf. F. excitation.]
1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
2. (Physiol.)
Defn: The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
EXCITATIVE
Ex*cit"a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. excitatif.]
Defn: Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory. Barrow.
EXCITATOR
Ex"ci*ta`tor, n. Etym: [L., one who rouses.] (Elec.)
Defn: A kind of discarder.
EXCITATORY
Ex*cit"a*to*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. excitatoire.]
Defn: Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.
EXCITE
Ex*cite", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excited; p. pr. & vb. n. exciting.]
Etym: [L. excitare; ex out + citare to move rapidly, to rouse: cf.
OF. esciter, exciter, F. exciter. See Cite.]
1. To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.
2. (Physiol.)
Defn: To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
Syn. — To incite; awaken; animate; rouse or arouse; stimulate; inflame; irritate; provoke. — To Excite, Incite. When we excite we rouse into action feelings which were less strong; when we incite we spur on or urge forward to a specific act or end. Demosthenes excited the passions of the Athenians against Philip, and thus incited the whole nation to unite in the war against him. Antony, by his speech over the body of Cæsar, so excited the feelings of the populace, that Brutus and his companions were compelled to flee from Rome; many however, were incited to join their standard, not only by love of liberty, but hopes of plunder.
EXCITEFUL
Ex*cite"ful, n.
Defn: Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
EXCITEMENT
Ex*cite"ment n. Etym: [Cf. OF. excitement, escitement.]
1. The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.
2. That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces
action; a motive.
The cares and excitements of a season of transition and struggle.
Talfowrd.
3. (Physiol.)
Defn: A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.
EXCITER
Ex*cit"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, excites.
Hope is the grand exciter of industry. Dr. H. More.
EXCITING
Ex*cit"ing, a.
Defn: Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. — Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes (Med.), those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
EXCITIVE
Ex*cit"ive, a.
Defn: Serving or tending to excite; excitative. [R.] Bamfield.
EXCITIVE
Ex*cit"ive, n.
Defn: That which excites; an excitant. [R.]
EXCITO-MOTION
Ex*ci`to-mo"tion, n. (Physiol.)
Defn: Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
EXCITO-MOTOR
Ex*ci`to-mo"tor, a. (Physiol.)
Defn: Excitomotory; as, excito-motor power or causes.
EXCITO-MOTORY
Ex*ci`to-mo"to*ry, a. (Physiol.)
Defn: Exciting motion; — said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex action, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.
EXCITO-NUTRIENT
Ex*ci`to-nu"tri*ent, a (Physiol.)
Defn: Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
EXCITO-SECRETORY
Ex*ci`to-se*cre"to*ry, a. (Physiol.)
Defn: Exciting secretion; — said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
EXCLAIM
Ex*claim", v. t.& i. [imp. & p. p. Exclaimed;p. pr. & vb. n.
Exclaiming.] Etym: [L. exclamare, exclamatum; ex + clamare to cry
out; cf. OF. exclamer. See Clam.]
Defn: To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.
EXCLAIM
Ex*claim", n.
Defn: Outcry; clamor. [Archaic]
Cursing cries and deep exclaims. Shak.
EXCLAIMER
Ex*claim"er, n.
Defn: One who exclaims.
EXCLAMATION
Ex`cla*ma"tion, n. Etym: [L. exclamatio: cf. F. exclamation.]
1. A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.
2. (Rhet.)
Defn: A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
3. (Print.)
Defn: A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; — called also exclamation point.
EXCLAMATIVE
Ex*clam"a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. exclamatif.]
Defn: Exclamatory. Earle.
— Ex*clam"a*tive*ly, adv.
EXCLAMATORY
Ex*clam"a*to*ry, a.
Defn: Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker. South. — Ex*clam"a*to*ti*ly, adv.
EXCLAVE Ex*clave", n. Etym: [Formed fr. enclave by substitution of ex- for en-]
Defn: A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory. [Recent.]
Note: The same territory is an enclave in respect to the surrounding country and an exclave with respect to the country to which it is politically attached.
EXCLUDE
Ex*clude", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Excluding.]
Etym: [L. excludere, exclusum; ex out + claudere to shut. See Close.]
1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; — the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. And none but such, from mercy I exclude. Milton.
2. To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs. Excluded middle. (logic) The name given to the third of the "three logical axioms," so-called, namely, to that one which is expressed by the formula: "Everything is either A or Not-A." no third state or condition being involved or allowed. See Principle of contradiction, under Contradiction.
EXCLUSION
Ex*clu"sion, n. Etym: [L. exclusio: cf. F. exclusion. See Exclude.]
1. The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded. His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss. Milton. The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. Hume.
2. (Physiol.)
Defn: The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.
3. Thing emitted. Sir T. Browne.
EXCLUSIONARY
Ex*clu"sion*a*ry, a.
Defn: Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.
EXCLUSIONISM
Ex*clu"sion*ism, n.
Defn: The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist.
EXCLUSIONIST
Ex*clu"sion*ist, n.
Defn: One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles
EXCLUSIVE
Ex*clu"sive a. Etym: [Cf. F. exclusif.]
1. Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.
2. Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; — opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.
EXCLUSIVE
Ex*clu"sive, n.
Defn: One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.
EXCLUSIVENESS
Ex*clu"sive*ness, n.
Defn: Quality of being exclusive.
EXCLUSIVISM
Ex*clu"siv*ism, n.
Defn: The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.
EXCLUSIVIST
Ex*clu"siv*ist, n.
Defn: One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or
exclusivism.
The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of
the exclusivists of the solar theory. Gladstone.
EXCLUSORY
Ex*clu"so*ry, a. Etym: [L. exclusorius.]
Defn: Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.
EXCOCT Ex*coct" v. t. Etym: [L. excoctus, p.p. of excoquere to excoct. See 3d Cook.]
Defn: To boil out; to produce by boiling. [Obs.] Bacon.
EXCOCTION
Ex*coc"tion. Etym: [L. excoctio.]
Defn: The act of excocting or boiling out. [Obs.] Bacon.
EXCOGITATE
Ex*cog"i*tate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excogitated; p. pr. & vb. n..
Excogitating.] Etym: [L. excogitatus, p. p. of excogitare to
excogitate; ex out + cogitare to think. See Cogitate.]
Defn: To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise;
to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." Stirling.
This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory.
Whewell.
EXCOGITATE
Ex*cog"i*tate, v. i.
Defn: To cogitate. [R.] Bacon.
EXCOGITATION
Ex*cog`i*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. excogitatio: cf. F. excogitation.]
Defn: The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
EXCOMMUNE
Ex`com*mune" v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. excommuier. See Excommunicate.]
Defn: To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate. [Obs.]
Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth Gayton.
EXCOMMUNICABLE
Ex`com*mu"ni*ca*ble, a. Etym: [See Excommunicate.]
Defn: Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making
excommunication possible or proper. "Persons excommunicable ." Bp.
Hall.
What offenses are excommunicable Kenle.
EXCOMMUNICANT
Ex`com*mu"ni*cant, n.
Defn: One who has been excommunicated.
EXCOMMUNICATE Ex"com*mu"ni*cate, a. Etym: [L. excommunicatus, p. p. of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See Communicate.]
Defn: Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
— n.
Defn: One excommunicated.
Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. Shak.
EXCOMMUNICATE Ex`com*mu"ni*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excommunicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating.]
1. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict. Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books. Miltin.
EXCOMMUNICATION Ex`com*mu`ni*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. excommunicatio: cf. F. excommunication.]
Defn: The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
Note: excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater is an absolute execution of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages, even from social intercourse with the faithful.
EXCOMMUNICATOR
Ex`com*mu"ni*ca`tor n. Etym: [Cf. LL. excommunicator.]
Defn: One who excommunicates.
EXCOMMUNION
Ex`com*mun"ion
Defn: . A shutting out from communion; excommunication. [Obs.]
Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.
EXCORIABLE
Ex*co"ri*a*ble
Defn: . Capable of being excoriated.
The scaly covering of fishes, . . . even in such as are excoriatable.
Sir T. Browne.
EXCORIATE Ex*co"ri*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excoriated;p. pr. & vb. n. excoriating.] Etym: [L. excoriare; ex out + corium hide. cf. Scourge; see Cuirass.]
Defn: To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.
EXCORIATION
Ex*co`ri*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. excoriation.]
1. The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
2. Stripping of possession; spoliation. [Obs.] A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort. Howell.
EXCORTICATE Ex*cor"ti*cate, v. t. Etym: [L. ex out, from + cortex, corticis, bark.]
Defn: To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate. [Obs.] "Excorticate the tree." Evelyn.
EXCORTICATION
Ex*cor`ti*ca"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. excortication.]
Defn: The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.
EXCREABLE
Ex"cre*a*ble, a. Etym: [L. excreabilis, exscreabilis, fr. exscreare.
See Excreate.]
Defn: Capable of being discharged by spitting. [Obs.] Swift.
EXCREATE Ex"cre*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. excreare, exsreare; ex out + screare to hawk.]
Defn: To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. [Obs.] Cockeram.
EXCREATION
Ex`cre*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. excreatio, exscreatio.]
Defn: Act of spitting out. [Obs.] Cockeram.
EXCREMENT Ex"cre*ment, n. Etym: [L. excrementum, fr. excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. excrément. See Excrete.]
Defn: Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
EXCREMENT Ex"cre*ment, n. Etym: [L. excrementum, fr. excrescere, excretum, to grow out. See Excrescence.]
Defn: An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [Obs.] "Ornamental
excrements." Fuller.
Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing
that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts.
Bacon.
EXCREMENTAL
Ex`cre*men"tal, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to excrement.
EXCREMENTITIAL; EXCREMENTITIOUS
Ex`cre*men*ti"tial, Ex`cre*men*ti"tious, a. (Physiol.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.
EXCREMENTIVE
Ex`cre*men"tive, a.
Defn: Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. [R.]
"The excrementive parts." Felthman.
EXCREMENTIZE
Ex"cre*ment*ize` v. i.
Defn: To void excrement. [R.] Life of A. Wood
EXCRESCENCE Ex*cres"cence n. Etym: [F. excrescence, excroissanse, L. excrescentia excrescences, neut. pl. of p. pr. of excrescere. See Excrescent.]
Defn: An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences of joy." Jer. Taylor. The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy. Addison.
EXCRESCENCY
Ex*cres"cen*cy, n.
Defn: Excrescence. [Obs.]
EXCRESCENT Ex*cres"cent, a. Etym: [L. excresens, -entis, p. pr. of excrescere to grow out ; ex out + crescere to grow. See Crescent.]
Defn: Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a
superfluity.
Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. Pope.
Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root;
as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.
EXCRESCENTIAL
Ex`cres*cen"tial a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.
EXCRETA
Ex*cre"ta, n. pl. Etym: [L.]
Defn: Matters to be excreted.
EXCRETE
Ex*crete", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excreting.]
Etym: [L. excretus, p. p. of excernere to sift out, discharge; ex out
+ cernere to sift, separate. See Crisis.]
Defn: To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.
EXCRETIN
Ex"cre*tin, n. Etym: [From Excrete.] (physiol. Chem.)
Defn: A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces.
EXCRETION
Ex*cre"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. excrétion.]
1. The act of excreting. To promote secretion and excretion. Pereira.
2. That which is excreted; excrement. Bacon.
EXCRETIVE
Ex*cre"tive, a.
Defn: Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. Harvey.
EXCRETORY
Ex*cre"to*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. excrétoire.]
Defn: Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
EXCRUCIABLE
Ex*cru"ci*a*ble, a. Etym: [L. excruciabilis.]
Defn: Liable to torment. [R.] Bailey.
EXCRUCIATE
Ex*cru"ci*ate, a. Etym: [L. excruciatus, p. p. of excruciare to
excruciate; ex out + cruciare to put to death on a cross, to torment.
See Cruciate, Cross.]
Defn: Excruciated; tortured.
And here my heart long time excruciate. Chapman.
EXCRUCIATE
Ex*cru"ci*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excruciated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Excruciating.]
Defn: To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body. Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate. Drayton.
EXCRUCIATING
Ex*cru"ci*a`ting
Defn: . Torturing; racking. "Excruciating pain." V. Knox.
"Excruciating fears." Bentley — Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly, adv.
EXCRUCIATION
Ex*cru`ci*a"tion n. Etym: [L. excruciatio.]
Defn: The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture. Feltham.
EXCUBATION Ex`cu*ba"tion n. Etym: [L. excubatio, fr. excubare to lie out on guard; ex out on guard; ex out + cubare to lie down.]
Defn: A keeping watch. [Obs.] Bailey.
EXCUBITORIUM Ex*cu`bi*to"ri*um, n. Etym: [LL. excubitorium; ex out + cubare, cubitum, to lie.] (Eccl. Antiq.)
Defn: A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.
EXCULPABLE
Ex*cul"pa*ble
Defn: . Capable of being exculpated; deserving exculpation. Sir G.
Buck.
EXCULPATE
Ex*cul"pate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exculpated, p. pr. & vb. n..
Exculpating ( Etym: [L. ex out + culpatus, p. p. of culpare to find
fault with, to blame, culpa fault. See Culpable.]
Defn: To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless;
to relieve of blame; to acquit.
He exculpated himself from being the author of the heroic epistle.
Mason.
I exculpate him further for his writing against me. Milman.
Syn.
— To exonerate; absolve; clear; acquit; excuse; vindicate; justify.
EXCULPATION
Ex`cul*pa"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. LL. exculpatio.]
Defn: The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which
exculpates; excuse.
These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong
case in exculpation of themselves. Southey.
EXCULPATORY
Ex*cul"pa*to*ry
Defn: . Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing. "An exculpatory letter." Johnson.
EXCUR
Ex*cur" i. Etym: [L. excurrere. See Excurrent.]
Defn: To run out or forth; to extend. [Obs.] Harvey.
EXCURRENT Ex*cur"rent, a. Etym: [L. excurrens, p. p. of excurrere, excursum, to run out; ex out + currere to run. See Current.]
1. Running or flowing out; as: (Bot.)
Defn: Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top.
2. (Zoöl)
Defn: Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube.
EXCURSE
Ex*curse", v. t. Etym: [See excurrent.]
Defn: To journey or pass thought. [R.]
EXCURSION
Ex*cur"sion. Etym: [L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See Excurrent.]
1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally. Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. Milton. They would make excursions and waste the country. Holland.
2. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.
3. A wandering from a subject; digression. I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions. Cowper.
4. (Mach.)
Defn: Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]
Syn.
— Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See Journey.
EXCURSIONIST
Ex*cur"sion*ist, n.
Defn: One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.
EXCURSIVE
Ex*cur"sive, a.
Defn: Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an
excursive fancy.
The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor.
— Ex*cur"sive*ly, adv.
— Ex*cur"sive*ness, , n.
EXCURSUS
Ex*cur"sus, n. Etym: [L., fr. excurrere, excursum. See Excurrent.]
Defn: A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.
EXCUSABLE
Ex*cus"a*ble a. Etym: [L. excusabilis: cf. F. excusable. See Excuse.]
Defn: That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of
blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action.
— Ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n.
— Ex*cus"a*bly, adv.
The excusableness of my dissatisfaction. Boyle.
EXCUSATION
Ex`cu*sa"tion, n. Etym: [L. excusatio: cf. F. excusation.]
Defn: Excuse; apology. [Obs.] Bacon.
EXCUSATOR
Ex`cu*sa"tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist. [Obs.] Hume.
EXCUSATORY
Ex*cus"a*to*ry, a.
Defn: Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.
EXCUSE
Ex*cuse", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excused; p. pr. & vb. n. Excusing.]
Etym: [OE. escusen, cusen, OF. escuser, excuser, F. excuser, fr. L.
excusare; ex out + causa cause, causari to plead. See Cause.]
1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practicing it, if really and indeed it be against Gog's law. Abp. Sharp.
2. To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it. I must excuse what can not be amended. Shak.
3. To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to
pardon.
And in our own (excuse some courtly stains.) No whiter page than
Addison remains. Pope.
4. To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture. I pray thee have me excused. xiv. 19.
5. To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for. Think ye that we excuse ourselves to you 2 Cor. xii. 19.
Syn. — To vindicate; exculpate; absolve; acquit. - To Pardon, Excuse, Forgive. A superior pardons as an act of mercy or generosity; either a superior or an equal excuses. A crime, great fault, or a grave offence, as one against law or morals, may be pardoned; a small fault, such as a failure in social or conventional obligations, slight omissions or neglects may be excused. Forgive relates to offenses against one's self, and punishment foregone; as, to forgive injuries or one who has injured us; to pardon grave offenses, crimes, and criminals; to excuse an act of forgetfulness, an unintentional offense. Pardon is also a word of courtesy employed in the sense of excuse.
EXCUSE
Ex*cuse", n. Etym: [Cf. F. excuse. See Excuse, v. t.]
1. The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation. Pleading so wisely in excuse of it. Shak.
2. That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment. Hence with denial vain and coy excuse. Milton.
3. That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault. "It hath the excuse of youth." Shak. If eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Emerson.
Syn.
— See Apology.
EXCUSELESS
Ex*cuse"less, a.
Defn: Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology. Whillock.
EXCUSEMENT
Ex*cuse"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. excusement.]
Defn: Excuse. [Obs.] Gower.
EXCUSER
Ex*cus"er, n.
1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift.
2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton.
EXCUSS Ex*cuss", v. t. Etym: [L. excussus. p. p. of excutere to shake off; ex out, from + quatere to shake. Cf. Quash.]
1. To shake off; to discard. [R.] To excuss the notation of a Geity out of their minds. Bp. Stillingfleet.
2. To inspect; to investigate; to decipher. [R.] To take some pains in excusing some old monuments. F. Junius (1654).
3. To seize and detain by law, as goods. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
EXCUSSION Ex*cus"sion, n. Etym: [L. excussio a shaking down; LL., a threshing of corn: cf. F. excussion.]
Defn: The act of excusing; seizure by law. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
EXEAT
Ex"e*at, n. Etym: [L., let him go forth.]
1. A license for absence from a college or a religious house. [Eng.] Shipley.
2. A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese. Wharton.
EXECRABLE Ex"e*cra*ble, a. Etym: [L. execrabilis, exsecrabilis: cf. F. exécrable. See Execrate.]
Defn: Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable;
abominable; as, an execrable wretch. "Execrable pride." Hooker.
— Ex"e*cra*ble*ness, n.
— Ex"e*cra*bly, adv.
EXECRATE
Ex"e*crate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Execrated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Execrating.] Etym: [L. execratus, exsecratus, p. p. of execrare,
exsecrare, to execrate; ex out + sacer holy, sacred. See Sacred.]
Defn: To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. "They . . . execrate their lct." Cowper.
EXECRATION Ex`e*cra"tion, n. Etym: [L. execratio, exsecratio: cf. F. exécration.]
1. The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed. Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations. Shak.
2. That which is execrated; a detested thing. Ye shall be an execration and . . . a curse. Jer. xlii. 18.
Syn.
— See Malediction.
EXECRATIVE
Ex"e*cra*tive, a.
Defn: Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying. Carlyle.
— Ex"e*cra*tive*ly, adv.
EXECRATIVE
Ex"e*cra*tive, n.
Defn: A word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression.
Earle.
EXECRATORY
Ex"e*cra*to*ry, a.
Defn: Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory. C. Kingsley. — n.
Defn: A formulary of execrations. L. Addison.
EXECT
Ex*ect", v. t. Etym: [See Exsect.]
Defn: To cut off or out. [Obs.] See Exsect. Harvey.
EXECTION
Ex*ec"tion, n. [Obs.]
Defn: See Exsection.
EXECUTABLE
Ex"e*cu`ta*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project.
[R.]
EXECUTANT
Ex*ec"u*tant, n.
Defn: One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical
instrument.
Great executants on the organ. De Quincey.
EXECUTE Ex"e*cute, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Executed; p. pr. & vb. n. Executing.] Etym: [F. exécuter, L. executus, exsecutus, p. p. of exequi to follow to the end, pursue; ex out + sequi to follow. See Second, Sue to follow up, and cf. Exequy.]
1. To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform; Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fixed on this day Milton.
2. To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.
3. To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.
4. To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.
5. Too put to death illegally; to kill. [Obs.] Shak.
6. (Mus.)
Defn: To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly.
Syn. — To accomplish; effect; fulfill; achieve; consummate; finish; complete. See Accomplish.
EXECUTE
Ex"e*cute, v. i.
1. To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose. [R.] Hayward.
2. To perform musically.
EXECUTER
Ex"e*cu`ter, n.
Defn: One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.
EXECUTION
Ex`e*cu"tion, n. Etym: [F. exécution, L. executio, exsecutio.]
1. The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc. The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution. Dryden.
2. A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer. A warrant for his execution. Shak.
3. The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music. The first quality of execution is truth. Ruskin.
4. (Law) (a) The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law. (b) A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process. (c) The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will.
5. That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; — usually with do. To do some fatal execution. Shak.
6. The act of sacking a town. [Obs.] Beau. & FL.
EXECUTIONER
Ex`e*cu"tion*er, n.
1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon.
2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
EXECUTIVE
Ex*ec"u*tive, a. Etym: [Cf.F. exécutif.]
Defn: Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc.
Note: In government, executive is distinguished from legislative and judicial; legislative being applied to the organ or organs of government which make the laws; judicial, to that which interprets and applies the laws; executive, to that which carries them into effect or secures their due performance.
EXECUTIVE
Ex*ec"u*tive, n.
Defn: An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.
EXECUTIVELY
Ex*ec"u*tive*ly, adv.
Defn: In the way of executing or performing.
EXECUTOR
Ex*ec"u*tor, n. Etym: [L. executor, exsecutor: cf. F. exécuteur. Cf.
Executer.]
1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak.
2. An executioner. [Obs.] Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak.
3. (Law)
Defn: The person appointed by a Executor de son tort Etym: [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.
EXECUTORIAL
Ex*ec`u*to"ri*al, a. Etym: [LL. executorialis.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to an executive.
EXECUTORSHIP
Ex*ec"u*tor*ship, n.
Defn: The office of an executor.
EXECUTORY Ex*ec"u*to*ry, a. Etym: [LL. executorius, L. exsecutorius: cf.F. exécutoire.]
1. Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive. The official and executory duties of government. Burke.
2. (Law)
Defn: Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. Blackstone.
EXECUTRESS
Ex*ec"u*tress, n. Etym: [Cf.F. exécutrice.]
Defn: An executrix.
EXECUTRIX
Ex*ec"u*trix, n. Etym: [LL.] (Law)
Defn: A woman exercising the functions of an executor.
EXEDENT
Ex"e*dent, a. Etym: [L. exedent, -entis, p.pr. of exedere. See
Exesion.]
Defn: Eating out; consuming. [R.]
EXEDRA
Ex"e*dra, n.; pl. Exedræ. Etym: [L., fr.Gr
1. (Class. Antiq.)
Defn: A room in a public building, furnished with seats.
2. (Arch.) (a) The projection of any part of a building in a rounded form. (b) Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form.
EXEGESIS
Ex`e*ge"sis, n.;pl. Exegeses. Etym: [NL., fr.Gr. Agent.]
1. Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.
2. (Math.)
Defn: The process of finding the roots of an equation. [Obs.]
EXEGETE
Ex"e*gete, n. Etym: [Gr. exégète. See Exegesis.]
Defn: An exegetist.
EXEGETIC; EXEGETICAL
Ex`e*get"ic, Ex`e*get"ic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. exégétique.]
Defn: Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository. Walker. Ex`e*get"ic*al*ly, adv.
EXEGETICS
Ex`e*get"ics, n.
Defn: The science of interpretation or exegesis.
EXEGETIST
Ex`e*ge"tist, n.
Defn: One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; — also called exegete.
EXEMPLAR
Ex*em"plar, n. Etym: [L. exemplar, exemplum: cf. F. exemplaire. See
Example, and cf. Examper, Sampler.]
1. A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives. Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit. South.
2. A copy of a book or writing. [Obs.] Udall.
EXEMPLAR
Ex*em"plar, a.
Defn: Exemplary. [Obs.]
The exemplar piety of the father of a family. Jer. Taylor.
EXEMPLARILY
Ex"em*pla*ri*ly, adv.
Defn: In a manner fitted or designed to be an example for imitation
or for warning; by way of example.
She is exemplarily loyal. Howell.
Some he punisheth exemplarily. Hakewill.
EXEMPLARINESS
Ex"em*pla*ri*ness, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being exemplary; fitness to be an example.
EXEMPLARITY
Ex`em*plar"i*ty (, n. Etym: [Cf. LL. exemplaritas.]
Defn: Exemplariness. [R.]
The exemplarity of Christ's life. Abp. Sharp.
EXEMPLARY Ex"em*pla*ry, a. Etym: [L. exemplaris, fr. exemplar: cf. F. exemplaire. See Exemplar.]
1. Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct. [Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary. Bacon.
2. Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.
3. Illustrating as the proof of a thing. Fuller. Exemplary damages. (Law) See under Damage.
EXEMPLARY
Ex"em*pla*ry, n.
Defn: An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing. [Obs.] Donne.
EXEMPLIFIABLE
Ex*em"pli*fi`a*ble, a.
Defn: That can be exemplified.
EXEMPLIFICATION
Ex*em`pli*fi*ca"tion, n.
1. The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
2. That which exemplifies; a case in point; example.
3. (Law)
Defn: A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original.
EXEMPLIFIER
Ex*em"pli*fi`er, n.
Defn: One who exemplifies by following a pattern.
EXEMPLIFY
Ex*em"pli*fy v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exemplified; p. pr. &. vb. n.
Exemplifying.] Etym: [L. exemplum example + -fy: cf. LL.
exemplificare to copy, serve as an example.]
1. To show or illustrate by example. He did but . . . exemplify the principles in which he had been brought up. Cowper.
2. To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record. Holland.
3. To prove or show by an attested copy.
EXEMPT Ex*empt", a. Etym: [F. exempt, L. exemptus, p. p. of eximere to take out, remove, free; ex out + emere to buy, take. Cf. Exon, Redeem.]
1. Cut off; set apart. [Obs.] Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. Shak.
2. Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] Chapman.
3. Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; — (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service. True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak. T is laid on all, not any one exempt. Dryden.
EXEMPT
Ex*empt", n.
1. One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
2. One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. [Eng.]
EXEMPT
Ex*empt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exempting.]
Etym: [F. exempter. See Exempt, a.]
1. To remove; to set apart. [Obs.] Holland.
2. To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain. Death So snatched will not exempt us from the pain We are by doom to pay. Milton.
EXEMPTIBLE
Ex*empt"i*ble, a.
Defn: That may be exempted.
EXEMPTION Ex*emp"tion, n. Etym: [L. exenptio a removing: cf. F. exemption exemption.]
Defn: The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc.
EXEMPTITIOUS
Ex`emp*ti"tious, a.
Defn: Separable. [Obs.] "Exemptitious from matter." Dr. H. More.
EXENTERATE
Ex*en"ter*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. exenteratus, p.p. of exenterare; cf.
Gr.
Defn: To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. [R.] Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.
EXENTERATION
Ex*en`ter*a"tion, n. Etym: [LL. exenteratio.]
Defn: Act of exenterating. [R.]
EXEQUATUR Ex`e*qua"tur, n. Etym: [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. subj. of exequi, exsequi, to perform, execute.]
1. A written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned.
2. Official recognition or permission. Prescott.
EXEQUIAL Ex*e"qui*al, a. Etym: [L. exequialis, exsequialis, fr. exsequiae exequies.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.
EXEQUIOUS
Ex*e"qui*ous, a.
Defn: Funereal. [Obs.] Drayton.
EXEQUY Ex"e*quy, n.;pl. Exequies. Etym: [L. exequiae, exsequiae, a funeral procession, fr. exsequi to follow out: cf. OF. exeques. See Exequte.]
Defn: A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession. But see his exequies fulfilled in Rouen. Shak.
EXERCENT
Ex*er"cent, a. Etym: [L. exercents, -entis, p. pr. of exercere. See
Exercise.]
Defn: Practicing; professional. [Obs.] "Every exercent advocate."
Ayliffe.
EXERCISABLE
Ex"er*ci`sa*ble a.
Defn: That may be exercised, used, or exerted.
EXERCISE Ex"er*cise, n. Etym: [F. exercice, L. exercitium, from exercere, exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive out of the inclosure; ex out + arcere to shut up, inclose. See Ark.]
1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice. exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature. Jefferson. O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end. Tennyson.
2. Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc. "Desire of knightly exercise." Spenser. An exercise of the eyes and memory. Locke.
3. Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise ob horseback. The wise for cure on exercise depend. Dryden.
4. The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty. Lewis refused even those of the church of England . . . the public exercise of their religion. Addison. To draw him from his holy exercise. Shak.
5. That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ebbs; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition. The clumsy exercises of the European tourney. Prescott. He seems to have taken a degree, and preformed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565. Brydges.
6. That which gives practice; a trial; a test. Patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude. Milton. Exercise bone (Med.), a deposit of bony matter in the soft tissues, produced by pressure or exertion.
EXERCISE
Ex"er*cise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exercised; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exercising.]
1. To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy. Herein do I Exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence. Acts xxiv. 16.
2. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops. About him exercised heroic games The unarmed youth. Milton.
3. To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain. Where pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end. Milton.
4. To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office. I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. Jer. ix. 24. The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Ezek. xxii. 29.
EXERCISE
Ex"er*cise, v. i.
Defn: To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement. I wear my trusty sword, When I do exercise. Cowper.
EXERCISER
Ex"er*ci`ser, n.
Defn: One who exercises.
EXERCISIBLE
Ex"er*ci`si*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.
EXERCITATION Ex*er`ci*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. exercitatio, fr. exercitare, intense., fr. exercere to exercise: CF. f. exercitation.]
Defn: exercise; practice; use. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
EXERGUE
Ex*ergue", n. Etym: [F.,fr.Gr. i.e., accessory work. See Work.]
(Numis.)
Defn: The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter. Fairholt.
EXERT
Ex*ert", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exerted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exerting.]
Etym: [L. exertus, exsertus, p.p. of exerere, exserere, to thrust
out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf.
Exsert.]
1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. [Obs.] So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden.
2. To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.
3. To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform. When we will has exerted an act of command on any faculty of the soul or member of the body. South. To exert one's self, to use efforts or endeavors; to strive; to make an attempt.
EXERTION
Ex*er"tion, n.
Defn: The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day.
Syn.
— Attempt; endeavor; effort; essay; trial. See Attempt.
EXERTIVE
Ex*ert"ive, a.
Defn: Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.
EXERTMENT
Ex*ert"ment, n.
Defn: Exertion. [R.]
EXESION Ex*e"sion, n. Etym: [L. exedere, exesum, to eat up; ex out + edere to eat.]
Defn: The act of eating out or through. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
EXESTUATE Ex*es"tu*ate, v. i. Etym: [L. exaestuatus,p.p. of exaestuare to boil up. See Estuate.]
Defn: To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce. [Obs.]
EXESTUATION
Ex*es`tu*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. exaestuatio.]
Defn: A boiling up; effervescence. [Obs.] Boyle.
EXEUNT
Ex"e*unt. Etym: [L., 3d pers. pl. pres. of exire to go out.]
Defn: They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except
Hamlet. See 1st Exit.
EXFETATION
Ex`fe*ta"tion, n Etym: [Pref. ex- + fetation.] (Med.)
Defn: Imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra- uterine fetation. Hoblyn.
EXFOLIATE
Ex*fo"li*ate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Exfoliated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exfoliating.] Etym: [L. exfoliare to strip of leaves; ex out, from +
folium leaf.]
1. To separate and come off in scales or laminæ, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
2. (Min.)
Defn: To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.
EXFOLIATE
Ex*fo"li*ate v. t.
Defn: To remove scales, laminæ, or splinters from the surface of.
EXFOLIATION
Ex*fo`li*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. exfoliation.]
Defn: The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.
EXFOLIATIVE
Ex*fo"li*a"tive, a. Etym: [Cf.F. exfoliatif.]
Defn: Having the power of causing exfoliation.
— n.
Defn: An exfoliative agent. Wiseman.
EXHALABLE
Ex*hal"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being exhaled or evaporated. Boyle.
EXHALANT
Ex*hal"ant, a. Etym: [Cf. F. exhalant.]
Defn: Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.
EXHALATION Ex`ha*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. exhalatio: cf. F. exhalaison, exhalation.]
1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
2. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake. Milton.
3. A bright phenomenon; a meteor. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening. Shak.
EXHALE
Ex*hale", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exaled, p. pr. & vb. n.. Exaling.]
Etym: [L. exhalare; ex out + halare to breathe; cf.F. exhaler. Cf.
Inhale.]
1. To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia. Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales. Pope.
2. To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth.
EXHALE
Ex*hale", v. i.
Defn: To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.
Their inspiration exhaled in elegies. Prescott.
EXHALEMENT
Ex*hale"ment, n.
Defn: Exhalation. [Obs.]
EXHALENCE
Ex*hal"ence, n.
Defn: Exhalation. [R.]
EXHAUST Ex*haust", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhausted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhausting.] Etym: [L. exhaustus, p.p. of exhaurire; ex out + haurire, haustum, to draw, esp. water; perhaps akin to Icel. asua to sprinkle, pump.]
1. To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
2. To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
3. To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources. A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. Motley.
4. To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.
5. (Chem.)
Defn: To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether. Exhausted receiver. (Physics) See under Receiver.
Syn.
— To spend; consume; tire out; weary.
EXHAUST
Ex*haust", a. Etym: [L. exhaustus, p.p.]
1. Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.
2. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work. Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing it through. — Exhaust fan, a fan blower so arranged as to produce an exhaust draught, or to draw air or gas out of a place, as out of a room in ventilating it. — Exhaust nozzle, Exhaust orifice (Steam Engine), the blast orifice or nozzle. — Exhaust pipe (Steam Engine), the pipe that conveys exhaust steam from the cylinder to the atmosphere or to the condenser. Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes. — Exhaust purifier (Milling), a machine for sorting grains, or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught. Knight. — Exhaust steam (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been employed to produce motion of the piston. — Exhaust valve (Steam Engine), a valve that lets exhaust steam escape out of a cylinder.
EXHAUST
Ex*haust", n. (Steam Engine)
1. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
2. The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
EXHAUSTER
Ex*haust"er n.
Defn: One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out.
EXHAUSTIBILITY
Ex*haust`i*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: Capability of being exhausted. I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill.
EXHAUSTIBLE
Ex*haust"i*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended. Johnson.
EXHAUSTING
Ex*haust"ing, a.
Defn: Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors.
— Ex*haust"ing, adv.
EXHAUSTION
Ex*haus"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. exhaustion.]
1. The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.
2. The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.
3. (Math.)
Defn: An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.
Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications and quadratures, now investigated by the calculus.
EXHAUSTIVE
Ex*haust"ive, a.
Defn: Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
EXHAUSTLESS
Ex*haust"less, a.
Defn: Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
EXHAUSTMENT
Ex*haust"ment, n.
Defn: Exhaustion; drain. [Obs.]
EXHAUSTURE
Ex*haus"ture, n.
Defn: Exhaustion. Wraxall.
EXHEDRA
Ex"he*dra, n. Etym: [NL.]
Defn: See Exedra.
EXHEREDATE Ex*her"e*date, v. t. Etym: [L., exheredatus, p.p. of exheredare to disinherit; ex out + heres, heredis, heir.]
Defn: To disinherit. [R.] Huloet.
EXHEREDATION
Ex*her`e*da"tion, n. Etym: [L., exheredatio: cf. F. exhérédation.]
Defn: A disinheriting; disherisor. [R.]
EXHEREDITATION Ex`he*red`i*ta"tion, n. Etym: [LL. exhereditare, exhereditatum, disinherit.]
Defn: A disinheriting; disherison. [R.] E. Waterhouse.
EXHIBIT
Ex*hib"it, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhibited; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exhibiting.] Etym: [L. exhibitus, p. p. of exhibere to hold forth, to
tender, exhibit; ex out + habere to have or hold. See Habit.]
1. To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery. Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope.
2. (Law)
Defn: To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge. He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl. Clarendon.
3. (Med.)
Defn: To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel. To exhibit a
foundation or prize, to hold it forth or to tender it as a bounty to
candidates.
— To exibit an essay, to declaim or otherwise present it in public.
[Obs.]
EXHIBIT
Ex*hib"it, n.
1. Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.
2. (Law)
Defn: A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.
EXHIBITER
Ex*hib"it*er, n. Etym: [Cf. Exhibitor.]
Defn: One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill.
Shak.
EXHIBITION Ex`hi*bi"tion, n. Etym: [L. exhibitio a delivering: cf. F. exhibition.]
1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display.
2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition.
3. Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars. What maintenance he from his friends receives, Like exhibition thou shalt have from me. Shak. I have given more exhibitions to scholars, in my days, than to the priests. Tyndale.
4. (Med.)
Defn: The act of administering a remedy.
EXHIBITIONER
Ex`hi*bi"tion*er, n. (Eng. Univ.)
Defn: One who has a pension or allowance granted for support.
A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
EXHIBITIVE
Ex*hib"it*ive, a.
Defn: Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory. Norris.
— Ex*hib"it*ive*ly, adv.
EXHIBITOR
Ex*hib"it*or, n. Etym: [Cf. L. exhibitor a giver.]
Defn: One who exhibits.
EXHIBITORY
Ex*hib"it*o*ry, a. Etym: [L. exhibitorius relating to giving up: cf.
F. exhibitoire exhibiting.]
Defn: Exhibiting; publicly showing. J. Warton.
EXHILARANT
Ex*hil"a*rant, a. Etym: [L. exhilarans. -antis, p. pr. See
Exhilarate.]
Defn: Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure.
— n.
Defn: That which exhilarates.
EXHILARATE
Ex*hil"a*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhilarated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exilarating.] Etym: [L. exhilaratus, p.p. of exhilarare to gladden;
ex out + hilarare to make merry, hilaris merry, cheerful. See
Hilarious.]
Defn: To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.
EXHILARATE
Ex*hil"a*rate, v. i.
Defn: To become joyous. [R.] Bacon.
EXHILARATING
Ex*hil"a*ra`ting, a.
Defn: That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening.
— Ex*hil"a*ra`ting*ly, adv.
EXHILARATION
Ex*hil`a*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L., exhilaratio.]
1. The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
2. The state of being enlivened or cheerful. Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion. Bacon.
Syn. — Animation; joyousness; gladness; cheerfulness; gayety; hilarity; merriment; jollity.
EXHORT
Ex*hort", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhorting.]
Etym: [L. exhortari; ex out + hortari to incite, encourage; cf. F.
exhorter. See Hortative.]
Defn: To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution. Examples gross as earth exhort me. Shak. Let me exhort you to take care of yourself. J. D. Forbes.
EXHORT
Ex*hort", v. i.
Defn: To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to
good deeds.
With many other words did he testify and exhort. Acts ii. 40.
EXHORT
Ex*hort", n.
Defn: Exhortation. [Obs.] Pope.
EXHORTATION
Ex`hor*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. exhortatio: cf. F. exhortation.]
1. The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.
2. Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition. I'll end my exhortation after dinner. Shak.
EXHORTATIVE
Ex*hor"ta*tive, a. Etym: [L. exhortativus: cf. F. exhortatif.]
Defn: Serving to exhort; exhortatory; hortative. Barrow.
EXHORTATORY
Ex*hor"ta*to*ry a. Etym: [L. exhortatorius: cf. F. exhortatoire.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory. Holinshed.
EXHORTER
Ex*hort"er, n.
Defn: One who exhorts or incites.
EXHUMATED
Ex*hu"ma*ted, a.
Defn: Disinterred. [Obs.]
EXHUMATION
Ex`hu*ma"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. LL. exhumatio, F. exhumation.]
Defn: The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.
EXHUME
Ex*hume", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhumed p. pr. & vb. n.. Exhuming.]
Etym: [LL. exhumare; L. ex out + humus ground, soil: cf. F. exhumer.
See Humble.]
Defn: To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. Mantell.
EXICCATE
Ex"ic*cate, v. t.
Defn: See Exsiccate. [Obs.] Holland.
EXICCATION
Ex`ic*ca"tion, n.
Defn: See Exsiccation. [Obs.]
EXIGENCE
Ex"i*gence, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: Exigency. Hooker.
EXIGENCY Ex"i*gen*cy, n.;pl. Exigencies. Etym: [LL. exigentia: cf. F. exigence.]
Defn: The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency. "The present exigency of his affairs." Ludlow.
Syn. — Demand; urgency; distress; pressure; emergency; necessity; crisis.
EXIGENDARY
Ex`i*gen"da*ry, n.
Defn: See Exigenter.
EXIGENT Ex`i*gent, a. Etym: [L. exigens, -entis, p. pr. of exigere to drive out or forth, require, exact. See Exact.]
Defn: Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical. "At this exigent moment." Burke.
EXIGENT
Ex"i*gent, n.
1. Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment. [Obs.] Why do you cross me in this exigent Shak.
2. (o. Eng. Law)
Defn: The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry. Abbott.
EXIGENTER
Ex"i*gent*er, n. (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. The office in now abolished. Cowell.
EXIGIBLE
Ex"i*gi*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. exigible. See Exigent.]
Defn: That may be exacted; repairable. [R.] A. Smith.
EXIGUITY Ex`i*gu"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small: cf. F. exiguité.]
Defn: Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] Boyle.
EXIGUOUS
Ex*ig"u*ous, a. Etym: [L. exiguus.]
Defn: Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. [R.] "Exiguous resources."
Carlyle.
— Ex*ig"uous*ness, n. [R.]
EXILE Ex"ile, n. Etym: [OE. exil, fr. L. exilium, exsilium, fr. exsuil one who quits, or is banished from, his native soil; ex out + solum ground, land, soil, or perh. fr.the root of salire to leap, spring; cf. F. exil. Cf. Sole of the foot, Saltation.]
1. Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country. Let them be recalled from their exile. Shak.
2. The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home. Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay. Shak.
Syn.
— Banishment; proscription; expulsion.
EXILE
Ex"ile v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Exiling.]
Defn: To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away. "Exiled from eternal God." Tennyson. Calling home our exiled friends abroad. Shak.
Syn.
— See Banish.
EXILE
Ex*ile", a. Etym: [L. exilis.]
Defn: Small; slender; thin; fine. [Obs.] "An exile sound." Bacon.
EXILEMENT
Ex"ile*ment, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. exilement.]
Defn: Banishment. [R.] Sir. H. Wotton.
EXILIC
Ex*il"ic, a.
Defn: Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in
Babylon. Encyc. Dict.
EXILITION Ex`i*li"tion, n. Etym: [L. exsilire to spring from; ex out + salire to spring, leap.]
Defn: A sudden springing or leaping out. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
EXILITY
Ex*il"ity, n. Etym: [L. exilitas: cf. F. exilité. See Exile, a.]
Defn: Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness. [R.]
Paley.
EXIMIOUS Ex*im"ious a. Etym: [L. eximius taken out, i. e. select, fr. eximere to take out. See Exempt.]
Defn: Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent. [Obs.]
The eximious and arcane science of physic. Fuller.
EXINANITE Ex*in"a*nite, v. t. Etym: [L. exinanitus, p. p. of exinanire; ex out (intens.) + inanire to make empty, inanis, empty.]
Defn: To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble. [Obs.] Bp.
Pearson.
EXINANITION
Ex*in`a*ni"tion
Defn: n. [L. exinanitio.] An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion;
humiliation. [Obs.]
Fastings to the exinanition of spirits. Jer. Taylor.
EXIST Ex*ist", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Existed; p. pr. & vb. n. Existing.] Etym: [L. existere, exsistere, to step out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand still, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. exister. See Stand.]
1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift. To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity. South.
2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
3. To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
Syn.
— See Be.
EXISTENCE
Ex*ist"ence, n. Etym: [Cf. F. existence.]
1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock.
2. Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war. The existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but another word for its being perceived, or for the inferred possibility of perceiving it. J. S. Mill.
3. That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.
EXISTENCY
Ex*ist"en*cy, n.
Defn: Existence. [R.] Sir M. Hale.
EXISTENT
Ex*ist"ent, a. Etym: [L. existens, -entis, p. pr. of existere. See
Exist.]
Defn: Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now;
taking place.
The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being,
as if they were truly existent. Dryden.
EXISTENTIAL
Ex`is*ten"tial, a.
Defn: Having existence. [Archaic] Bp. Barlow. —Ex`is*ten"tial*ly,
adv. [Archaic]
Existentially as well as essentially intelligent. Colerige.
EXISTER
Ex*ist"er, n.
Defn: One who exists.
EXISTIBLE
Ex*ist"i*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of existence. Grew.
EXISTIMATION Ex*is`ti*ma"tion, n. Etym: [L. existimatio judgment, opinion, fr. existimare to estimate. See Estimate.]
Defn: Esteem; opinion; reputation. [Obs.] Steele.
EXIT
Ex"it. Etym: [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of exire to go out. See
Exeunt, Issue.]
Defn: He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
Note: The Latin words exit (he or she goes out), and exeunt ( they go out), are used in dramatic writings to indicate the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of the actors.
EXIT
Ex"it, n. Etym: [See 1st Exit.]
1. The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part. They have their exits and their entrances. Shak.
2. Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit. Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death. Cowper.
3. A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out. Forcing he water forth thought its ordinary exists. Woodward.
EXITIAL; EXITIOUS
Ex*i"tial, Ex*i"tious, a. Etym: [L. exitialis, exitious, fr. exitium
a going out, a going to naught, i. e., ruin, fr.exire to go out: cf.
F. exitial.]
Defn: Destructive; fatal. [Obs.] "Exitial fevers." Harvey.
EX LIBRIS
Ex` li"bris. [L. ex from + libris books.]
Defn: An inscription, label, or the like, in a book indicating its ownership; esp., a bookplate.
EXMOOR
Ex"moor, n. [From Exmoor, a district in Somersetshire and
Devonshire.]
1. One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.
2. A breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.
EXO; EXO-
Ex"o. Etym: [Gr. Ex-.]
Defn: A prefix signifying out of, outside; as in exocarp, exogen, exoskeleton.
EXOCARDIAC; EXOCARDIAL
Ex`o*car"di*ac, Ex`o*car"di*al, a. Etym: [Exo- + Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; — opposed to endocardiac.
EXOCARP
Ex"o*carp, n. Etym: [Exo- + Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.
EXOCCIPITAL
Ex`oc*cip"i*tal, a. Etym: [Pref. ex- + occipital.] (Anat.)
Defn: Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull. — n.
Defn: The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young.
EXOCETUS; EXOCOETUS Ex`o*ce"tus ( or ), Ex`ocoe"tus, n. Etym: [NL. exocetus, L. exocoetus a fish that sleeps on the shore, Gr. (Zoöl)
Defn: A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See
Flying fish.
EXOCULATE Ex*oc"u*late, v. t. Etym: [L. exoculatus, p. p. of exoculare to exoculate; ex out + oculus an eye.]
Defn: To deprive of eyes. [R.] W. C. Hazlitt.
EXODE
Ex"ode n. Etym: [L. exodium, Gr. exode. See Exodus.]
1. Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. [Obs.] L. Coleman. Bolingbroke.
2. (Gr. Drama)
Defn: The final chorus; the catastrophe.
3. (Rom. Antig.)
Defn: An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.
EXODIC
Ex*od"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. Exodus.] (Physiol.)
Defn: Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; — said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.
EXODIUM
Ex*o"di*um, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: See Exode.
EXODUS Ex"o*dus, n. Etym: [L., the book of Exodus, Gr. Skr. a-sad to approach.]
1. A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.
2. The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.
EXODY
Ex"o*dy, n.
Defn: Exodus; withdrawal. [Obs.]
The time of the Jewish exody. Sir M. Hale.
EX-OFFICIAL
Ex`-of*fi"cial, a.
Defn: Proceeding from office or authority.
EX OFFICIO
Ex` of*fi"ci*o; pl. Ex officiis. Etym: [L.]
Defn: From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.
EXOGAMOUS
Ex*og"a*mous, a. Etym: [Exo- + Gr.
Defn: Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; — opposed to endogenous.
EXOGAMY
Ex*og"a*my, n.
Defn: The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; — opposed to endogamy. Lubbock.
EXOGEN
Ex"o*gen, n. Etym: [Exo- + -gen: cf. F. exogène.] (Bot.)
Defn: A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen. Gray.
EXOGENETIC
Ex`o*ge*net"ic, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Arising or growing from without; exogenous.
EXOGENOUS
Ex*og"e*nous, a.
1. (Bot.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; — the opposite of endogenous.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: Growing by addition to the exterior.
3. (Anat.)
Defn: Growing from previously ossified parts; — opposed to autogenous. Owen. Exogenous aneurism (Med.), an aneurism which is produced by causes acting from without, as from injury.
EXOGYRA
Ex`o*gy"ra n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.)
Defn: A genus of Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters.
EXOLETE Ex"o*lete, a. Etym: [L. exoletus, p. p. of exolescere to grow out, grow out of use; ex out + olescere to grow.]
Defn: Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid. [Obs.]
EXOLUTION
Ex`o*lu"tion, n. Etym: [L. exolutio a release. See Exolve.]
Defn: See Exsolution. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
EXOLVE
Ex*olve", v. t. Etym: [L. exolvere, exsolutum; ex out + solvere.]
Defn: To loose; to pay. [Obs.]
EXON Ex"on, n. Etym: [NL., from E. Exe (Celt. uisge water) the name of a river.]
Defn: A native or inhabitant of Exeter, in England.
EXON
Ex"on, n. Etym: [F. expect an under officer.]
Defn: An officer of the Yeomen of the Guard; an Exempt. [Eng.]
EXONERATE
Ex*on"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exonerated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exonerating.] Etym: [L. exoneratus, p. p. of exonerare to free from a
burden; ex out, from onerare to load, onus load. See Onerous.]
1. To unload; to disburden; to discharge. [Obs.] All exonerate themselves into one common duct. Ray.
2. To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice. Burke.
3. To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball.
Syn. - To absolve; acquit; exculpate. See Absolve.
EXONERATION
Ex*on`er*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. exoneratio: cf. F. Exonération.]
Defn: The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
EXONERATIVE
Ex*on"er*a*tive, a.
Defn: Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.
EXONERATOR
Ex*on"er*a`tor, n. Etym: [L., an unloader.]
Defn: One who exonerates or frees from obligation.
EXOPHTHALMIA
Ex`oph*thal"mi*a, n. Etym: [Nl.,fr. Gr. (Med.)
Defn: The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.
EXOPHTHALMIC
Ex`oph*thal"mic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.
Exophthalmic golter. Same as Rasedow's disease.
EXOPHTHALMOS; EXOPHTHALMUS
Ex`oph*thal"mos, Ex`oph*thal"mus (, n. Etym: [NL.] (Med.)
Defn: Same as Exophthalmia.
EXOPHTHALMY
Ex`oph*thal"my, n. (Med.)
Defn: Exophthalmia.
EXOPHYLLOUS
Ex*oph"yl*lous, a. Etym: [Exo- + Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Not sheathed in another leaf.
EXOPLASM
Ex"o*plasm, n. Etym: [Exo- + Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: See Ectosarc, and Ectoplasm.
EXOPODITE
Ex*op"o*dite, n. Etym: [Exo- + Gr. (Zoöl)
Defn: The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea.
EXOPTABLE
Ex*op"ta*ble, a. Etym: [L. exoptabilis.]
Defn: Very desirable. [Obs.] Bailey.
EXOPTILE
Ex*op"tile, n. Etym: [F., fr.Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; — so called because the plumule is naked.
EXORABLE
Ex"o*ra*ble, a. Etym: [L. exorabilis: cf. F. exorable. See Exorate.]
Defn: Capable of being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender. Milton.
EXORATE Ex"o*rate, v. t. Etym: [L. exoratus, p. p. of exorare to gain by entreaty; ex out, from + orare to pay.]
Defn: To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty. [Obs.] Cockeram.
EXORATION
Ex`o*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. exoratio.]
Defn: Entreaty. [R.] Beau. & Fl.
EXORBITANCE; EXORBITANCY
Ex*or"bi*tance, Ex*or"bi*tan*cy,, n.
Defn: A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands. "a curb to your exorbitancies." Dryden. The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions. Bp. Hall.
EXORBITANT
Ex*or"bi*tant, a. Etym: [L. exorbitans, -antis, p. pr. of exorbitare
to go out of the track; ex out + orbita track: cf. F. exorbitant. See
Orbit.]
1. Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims. Foul exorbitant desires. Milton.
2. Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous. The Jews . . . [were] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for. Hooker.
EXORBITANTLY
Ex*or"bi*tant*ly, adv.
Defn: In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
EXORBITATE
Ex*or"bi*tate, v. i. Etym: [L.exorbitatus, p.p. of exorbitare. See
Exorbitant.]
Defn: To go out of the track; to deviate. [Obs.] Bentley.
EXORCISE
Ex"or*cise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exorcised ; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exorcising .] Etym: [L. exorcizare, Gr. exorciser.]
1. To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one. He impudently excorciseth devils in the church. Prynne.
2. To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon. Exorcise the beds and cross the walls. Dryden. Mr. Spectator . . . do all you can to exorcise crowds who are . . . processed as I am. Spectator.
EXORCISER
Ex"or*ci`ser, n.
Defn: An exorcist.
EXORCISM
Ex"or*cism, n. Etym: [L. exorcismus, Gr. ; cf. F. exorcisme.]
1. The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.
2. Conjuration for raising spirits. [R.] Shak.
EXORCIST
Ex"or*cist, n. Etym: [L. exorcista, Gr. exorciste.]
1. One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism. Certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists. Acts xix. 13.
2. A conjurer who can raise spirits. [R.] Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up My mortified spirit. Shak.
EXORDIAL
Ex*or"di*al, a.
Defn: Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.
The exordial paragraph of the second epistle. I. Taylor.
EXORDIUM Ex*or"di*um, n.; pl. E. Exordiums, L. Exordia . Etym: [L. fr. exordiri to begin a web, lay a warp, begin; ex out + ordiri to begin a web, begin; akin to E. order. See Order.]
Defn: A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration. "The exordium of repentance." Jer. Taylor. "Long prefaces and exordiums. " Addison.
EXORHIZA
Ex`o*rhi"za, n.; pl. Exorhize. Etym: [NL. fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule. Gray.
EXORHIZAL; EXORHIZOUS
Ex`o*rhi"zal, Ex`o*rhi`zous, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.
EXORNATION
Ex`or*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. exornatio, fr. exornare. See Ornate.]
Defn: Ornament; decoration; embellishment. [Obs.]
Hyperbolical exornations . . . many much affect. Burton.
EXORTIVE Ex*or`tive, a. Etym: [L. exortivus, fr. exortus a coming forth, rising; ex out + orivi to rise, come forth.]
Defn: Rising; relating to the east. [R.]
EXOSCULATE Ex*os"cu*late, v. t. Etym: [L. exosculatus, p. p. of exosculari to kiss. See Osculate.]
Defn: To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly. [Obs.]
EXOSKELETAL
Ex`o*skel"e*tal, a. (Anat.)
Defn: Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles.
EXOSKELETON
Ex`o*skel"e*ton, n. Etym: [Exo- + skeleton] (Anat.)
Defn: The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.
EXOSMOSE
Ex"os*mose`, n. Etym: [Exo+osmose: cf. F. ezosmose.] (Physics)
Defn: The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; — opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.
EXOSMOSIS
Ex`os*mo"sis, n. Etym: [NL. See Exo-, and Osmose.] (Physics)
Defn: See Exosmose.
EXOSMOTIC
Ex`os*mot`ic, a.
Defn: Pertaining to exosmose.
EXOSPORE
Ex`o*spore, n. Etym: [Exo+spote.] (Biol.)
Defn: The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.
EXOSSATE Ex*os"sate, v. t. Etym: [L. exossatus, p. p. of exossare to bone , fr. exos without bones; ex out + os, ossis, bone.]
Defn: To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone. [Obs.]
Bailey.
EXOSSATION
Ex`os*sa"tion, n.
Defn: A depriving of bone or of fruit stones. [Obs.] Bacon.
EXOSSEOUS
Ex*os"seous, a. Etym: [Ex + osseous.]
Defn: Boneless. "Exosseous animals. " Sir T. Browne.
EXOSTOME
Ex"o*stome, n. Etym: [Exo- + Gr. exostome.] (Bot.)
Defn: The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.
EXOSTOSIS
Ex`os*to"sis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. exostose.]
1. (Med.)
Defn: Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. Coxe.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.
EXOTERIC; EXOTERICAL
Ex`o*ter"ic, Ex`o*ter"ic*al a. Etym: [L. exotericus, Gr. exotérique.
See Ex-]
Defn: External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence,
capable of being readily or fully comprehended; — opposed to
esoteric, or secret.
The foppery of an exoteric and esoteric doctrine. De Quincey.
EXOTERICS
Ex`o*ter`ics, n. pl. (Philos.)
Defn: The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See
Esoterics.
EXOTERY
Ex"o*ter*y, n.; pl. Exoteries (-.
Defn: That which is obvious, public, or common.
Dealing out exoteries only to the vulgar. A. Tucker.
EXOTHECA
Ex`o*the"ca, n. Etym: [Nl., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costæ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.
EXOTHECIUM
Ex`o*the"cium, n. Etym: [NL. See Exotheca.] (Bot.)
Defn: The outer coat of the anther.
EXOTHERMIC
Ex`o*ther"mic, a. [Pref. exo-+ thermic.] (Chem.)
Defn: Characterized by, or formed with, evolution of heat; as, an exothermic reaction; — opposed to endothermic.
EXOTIC
Ex*ot"ic, a. Etym: [L. exoticus, Gr. exotique. See Exoteric.]
Defn: Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word. Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador. Evelyn.
EXOTIC
Ex*ot"ic, n.
Defn: Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as
a plant, a word, a custom.
Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the gardeners call
exotics. Addison.
EXOTICAL
Ex*ot"ic*al, a.
Defn: Foreign; not native; exotic. [R.] — Ex*ot"ic*al*ness, n.
EXOTICISM
Ex*ot"i*cism, n.
Defn: The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.
EXPAND
Ex*pand", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Expanding.]
Etym: [L. expandere, expansum; ex out + pandere to spread out, to
throw open; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf. Spawn.]
1. To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight. Milton.
2. To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; — opposed to Ant: contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.
3. (Math.)
Defn: To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
EXPAND
Ex*pand", v. i.
Defn: To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
EXPANDER
Ex*pand"er, n.
Defn: Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
EXPANDING
Ex*pand"ing, a.
Defn: That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging. Expanding bit, Expanding drill (Mech.), a bit or drill made adjustable for holes of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring. — Expanding pulley (Mach.), a pulley so made, as in sections, that its diameter can be increased or diminished.
EXPANSE
Ex*panse", n. Etym: [From L. expansus, p. p. of expandere. See
Expand.]
Defn: That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or
body; especially, the arch of the sky. "The green expanse." Savage.
Lights . . . high in the expanse of heaven. Milton.
The smooth expanse of crystal lakes. Pope.
EXPANSE
Ex*panse", v. t.
Defn: To expand. [Obs.]
That lies expansed unto the eyes of all. Sir. T. Browne.
EXPANSIBILITY
Ex*pan`si*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.
EXPANSIBLE
Ex*pan"si*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. expansible.]
Defn: Capable of being expanded or spread out widely.
Bodies are not expansible in proposition to their weight.
Ex*pab"si*ble*ness ,n. -Ex*pan"si*bly ,adv.
EXPANSILE
Ex*pan"sile, a.
Defn: Expansible.
Ether and alcohol are more expansile than water. Brande & C.
EXPANSION
Ex*pan"sion, n. Etym: [L. expansio: cf. F. expansion.]
1. The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
2. That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal. The starred expansion of the skies. Beattie.
3. Space thought which anything is expanded; also, pure space. Lost in expansion, void and infinite. Blackmore.
4. (Com.)
Defn: Enlargement or extension of business transaction; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes.
5. (Math.)
Defn: The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2.
6. (Steam Ebgine)
Defn: The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
7. (Nav. Arch.)
Defn: The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Note: Expansion is also used adjectively, as in expansion joint, expansion gear, etc. Expansion curve, a curve the coördinates of which show the relation between the pressure and volume of expanding gas or vapor; esp. (Steam engine), that part of an indicator diagram which shows the declining pressure of the steam as it expands in the cylinder. — Expansion gear (Stream Engine). a cut-off gear. See Illust. of Link motion. — Automatic expansion gear or cut-off, one that is regulated by the governor, and varies the supply of steam to the engine with the demand for power. — Fixed expansion gear, or Fixed cut-off, one that always operates at the same fixed point of the stroke. — Expansion joint, or Expansion coupling (Mech. & Engin.), a yielding joint or coupling for so uniting parts of a machine or structure that expansion, as by heat, is prevented from causing injurious strains; as by heat, is prevented from causing injurious strains; as: (a) A side or set of rollers, at the end of bridge truss, to support it but allow end play. (b) A telescopic joint in a steam pipe, to permit one part of the pipe to slide within the other. (c) A clamp for holding a locomotive frame to the boiler while allowing lengthwise motion. — Expansion valve (Steam Engine), a cut-off valve, to shut off steam from the cylinder before the end of each stroke.
EXPANSIVE
Ex*pan"sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. expansif.]
Defn: Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive;
of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the
expansive quality of air.
A more expansive and generous compassion. Eustace.
His forehead was broad and expansive. Prescott.
— Ex*pan"sive*ly, adv. -Ex*pan"sive*ness, n.
EXPANSURE
Ex*pan"sure (shur; 135), n.
Defn: Expanse. [Obs.] "Night's rich expansure."
EX PARTE
Ex` par"te. Etym: [L. See Ex-, and Part.]
Defn: Upon or from one side only; one-sided; partial; as, an ex parte statement. Ex parte application, one made without notice or opportunity to oppose. — Ex parte council, one that assembles at the request of only one of the parties in dispute. — Ex parte hearing or evidence (Law), that which is had or taken by one side or party in the absence of the other. Hearings before grand juries, and affidavits, are ex parte. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.
EXPATIATE Ex*pa"ti*ate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Expatiated;p. pr. & vb. n. Expariating.] Etym: [L. expatiatus, exspatiatus, p. p. of expatiari, exspatiari, to expatiate; ex out + spatiari to walk about spread out, fr. spatium space. See Space.]
1. To range at large, or without restraint. Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies. Pope.
2. To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant. He expatiated on the inconveniences of trade. Addison.
EXPATIATE
Ex*pa"ti*ate, v. t.
Defn: To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
Afford art an ample field in which to expatiate itself. Dryden.
EXPATIATION
Ex*pa`ti*a"tion, n.
Defn: Act of expatiating.
EXPATIATORY
Ex*pa"ti*a*to*ry, a.
Defn: Expansive; diffusive. [R.]
EXPATRIATE
Ex*pa"tri*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expatriated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Expatriating.] Etym: [LL. expatriatus, p. p. of expatriare; L. ex out
+ patria fatherland, native land, fr. pater father. See Patriot.]
1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke.
2. Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.
EXPATRIATION
Ex*pa`tri*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. expatriation.]
Defn: The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance. Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls. Palfrey.
EXPECT
Ex*pect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expected; p. pr. & vb. n. Expecting.]
Etym: [L. expectatum, to look out for, await, expect; ex + out
spectare to look at. See Spectacle.]
1. To wait for; to await. [Obs.] Let's in, and there expect their coming. Shak.
2. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; — often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated. "Good: I will expect you." Shak. "Expecting thy reply." Shak. The Somersetshire or yellow regiment . . . was expected to arrive on the following day. Macaulay.
Syn. — To anticipate; look for; await; hope. — To Expect, Think, Believe, Await. Expect is a mental act and has aways a reference to the future, to some coming event; as a person expects to die, or he expects to survive. Think and believe have reference to the past and present, as well as to the future; as I think the mail has arrived; I believe he came home yesterday, that he is he is at home now. There is a not uncommon use of expect, which is a confusion of the two; as, I expect the mail has arrived; I expect he is at home. This misuse should be avoided. Await is a physical or moral act. We await that which, when it comes, will affect us personally. We expect what may, or may not, interest us personally. See Anticipate.
EXPECT
Ex*pect", v. t.
Defn: To wait; to stay. [Obs.] Sandys.
EXPECT
Ex*pect", n.
Defn: Expectation. [Obs.] Shak.
EXPECTABLE
Ex*pect"a*ble, a. Etym: [L. expectabilis.]
Defn: That may be expected or looked for. Sir T. Browne.
EXPECTANCE; EXPECTANCY
Ex*pect"ance, Ex*pect"an*cy, n.
1. The act of expecting ; expectation. Milton.
2. That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope. The expectancy and rose of the fair state. Shak. Estate in expectancy (Law), one the possession of which a person is entitled to have at some future time, either as a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one. Burrill.
EXPECTANT Ex*pect"ant, a. Etym: [L.expectans, exspectans, p.pr. of expectare, exspectare: cf. F. expectant.]
Defn: Waiting in expectation; looking for; (Med.)
Defn: waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment. Expectant estate (Law), an estate in expectancy. See under Expectancy.
EXPECTANT
Ex*pect"ant, n.
Defn: One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of
receiving some good.
An expectant of future glory. South.
Those who had employments, or were expectants. Swift.
EXPECTATION
Ex`pec*ta"tion n. Etym: [L. expectio. exspectio: cf. F. expectation.]
1. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. "In expectation of a guest." Tennyson. My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him. Ps. lxii. 5.
2. That which is expected or looked for. Why our great expectation should be called The seed of woman. Milton.
3. The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of c or rank. His magnificent expiations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best much in Europe. Prescott. By all men's eyes a youth of expectations. Otway.
4. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.
5. (Med.)
Defn: The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age.
Syn.
— Anticipation; confidence; trust.
EXPECTATIVE
Ex*pect"a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. expectatif.]
Defn: Constituting an object of expectation; contingent. Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. Foxe.
EXPECTATIVE
Ex*pect"a*tive, n. Etym: [F. expectative, fr. expectatif expectant.]
Defn: Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace. Milman.
EXPECTEDLY
Ex*pect"ed*ly, adv.
Defn: In conformity with expectation. [R.] Walpole.
EXPECTER
Ex*pect"er, n.
Defn: One who expects.
EXPECTINGLY
Ex*pect"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In state of expectation.
EXPECTIVE
Ex*pect"ive, a.
Defn: Expectative. [R.] Shipley.
EXPECTORANT Ex*pec"to*rant, a. Etym: [L. expectorans, p. pr. of expectorare to drive from the breast: cf. F. expectorant.] (Med.)
Defn: Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. — n.
Defn: An expectorant medicine.
EXPECTORATE
Ex*pec"to*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expectorated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Expectorating.] Etym: [L. expecrorare to drive from the breast; ex
out + pectus, pectiris, breast. See Pectoral.]
Defn: To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.
EXPECTORATE
Ex*pec"to*rate, v. i.
Defn: To discharge matter from the lungs or throat bu hawking and spitting; to spit.
EXPECTORATION
Ex*pec`to*ra"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. expectoration.]
1. The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.
2. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
EXPECTORATIVE
Ex*pec"to*ra*tive, a. & n.
Defn: Same as Expectorant. Harvey.
EXPEDE
Ex*pede" v. t.
Defn: To expedite; to hasten. [Obs.]
EXPEDIATE
Ex*pe"di*ate, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. expédier. See Expedite.]
Defn: To hasten; to expedite. [Obs.] "To expediate their business."
Sir E. Sandys.
EXPEDIENCE; EXPEDIENCY
Ex*pe"di*ence, Ex*pe"di*en*cy,, n.
1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self- interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; — sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude. Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan. To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp. Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. Whately.
2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.] Making hither with all due expedience. Shak.
3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.] Forwarding this dear expedience. Shak.
EXPEDIENT Ex*pe"di*ent a. Etym: [L. expediens, -entis, p. pr. of expedire to be expedient, release, extricate: cf. F. expédient. See Expedite.]
1. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; — sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient for you that I go away. John xvi. 7. Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. Whately.
2. Quick; expeditious. [Obs.] His marches are expedient to this town. Shak.
EXPEDIENT
Ex*pe"di*ent, n.
1. That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end. What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind Philips.
2. Means devised in an exigency; shift.
Syn.
— Shift; contrivance; resource; substitute.
EXPEDIENTIAL
Ex*pe`di*en"tial
Defn: . Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. — Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv.
EXPEDIENTLY
Ex*pe"di*ent*ly adv.
1. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.
2. With expedition; quickly. [Obs.]
EXPEDIMENT
Ex*ped"i*ment n.
Defn: An expedient. [Obs.]
A like expediment to remove discontent. Barrow.
EXPEDITATE Ex*ped"i*tate, v. t. Etym: [LL. expeditatus, p. p. of expeditare to expeditate; ex out + pes, pedis, foot.] (Eng. Forest Laws)
Defn: To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.
EXPEDITE Ex"pe*dite, a. Etym: [L. expeditus, p. p. of expedire to free one caught by the foot, to extricate, set free, bring forward, make ready; ex out + pes, prdis, t. See Foot.]
1. Free of impediment; unimpeded. To make the way plain and expedite. Hooker.
2. Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.
Nimble and expedite . . . in its operation. Tollotson.
Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts.
Locke.
EXPEDITE
Ex"pe*dite, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expedited;p. pr. & vb. n.
Expediting.]
1. To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants. To expedite your glorious march. Milton.
2. To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially. Such charters be expedited of course. Bacon.
EXPEDITELY
Ex"pe*dite`ly, adv.
Defn: In expedite manner; expeditiously.
EXPEDITENESS
Ex"pe*dite`ness, n.
Defn: Quality of being expedite.
EXPEDITION
Ex`pe*di"tion, n. Etym: [L. expeditio: cf.F. expédition.]
1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. With winged expedition Swift as the lightning glance.
2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress. Putting it straight in expedition.
3. An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion. The expedition miserably failed. Prescott. Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont.
EXPEDITIONARY
Ex`pe*di"tion*a*ry, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.
EXPEDITIONIST
Ex`pe*di"tion*ist, n.
Defn: One who goes upon an expedition. [R].
EXPEDITIOUS
Ex`pe*di"tious, a.
Defn: Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger. — Ex`pe*di"tious*ly, adv. — Ex`pe*di"tious*ness, n.
Syn.
— Prompt; ready; speedy; alert. See Prompt.
EXPEDITIVE
Ex*ped"i*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. expéditif.]
Defn: Performing with speed. [Obs.] Bacon.
EXPEL
Ex*pel", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expelled, p. pr. & vb. n.. Expelling.]
Etym: [L. expellere, expulsum; ex out + pellere to drive: cf.F.
expeller. See Pulse a beat.]
1. To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows. Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house Judg. Xi. 7.
2. To drive away from one's country; to banish. Forewasted all their land, and them expelled. Spenser. . He shell expel them from before you . . . and ye shell possess their land. Josh. xxiii. 5.
3. To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.
4. To keep out, off, or away; to exclude. "To expel the winter's flaw." Shak.
5. To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.] Then he another and another [shaft] did expel. Spenser. .
Syn.
— To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See Banish.
EXPELLABLE
Ex*pel"la*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being expelled or driven out. "Expellable by heat."
Kirwan.
EXPELLER
Ex*pel"ler, n.
Defn: One who. or that which, expels.
EXPEND
Ex*pend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expended; p. pr. & vb. n. Expending.]
Etym: [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay
out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See Poise, and cf. Spend.]
Defn: To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. Shak.
EXPEND
Ex*pend", v. i.
1. To be laid out, used, or consumed.
2. To pay out or disburse money. They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend. Macaulay .
EXPENDITOR
Ex*pend"i*tor, n. Etym: [LL.] (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.
EXPENDITURE
Ex*pend"iture, n.
1. The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.
2. That which is expended or paid out; expense. The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country. A. Hamilton.
EXPENSE Ex*pense", n. Etym: [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend.]
1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak.
2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; — sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time. Courting popularity at his party's expense. Brougham.
3. Loss. [Obs.] Shak.
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Spenser.
Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for
immediate use. H. L. Scott.
EXPENSEFULL
Ex*pense"full, a.
Defn: Full of expense; costly; chargeable. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.
— Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. [R.] — Ex*pense"ful*ness, n. [R.]
EXPENSELESS
Ex*pense"less, a.
Defn: Without cost or expense.
EXPENSIVE
Ex*pen"sive, a.
1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke.
2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish. [R.] An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. Sprat. The idle and expensive are dangerous. Sir W. Temple.
Syn.
— Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant.
— Ex*pen"sive*ly, adv.
— Ex*pen"sive*ness, n.
EXPERIENCE Ex*pe"ri*ence, n. Etym: [F. expérience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, , p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of pertus experienced. See Peril, and cf. Expert.]
1. Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.] She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. Spenser.
2. The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering. "Guided by other's experiences." Shak. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. P. Henry To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge. When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting. Holland. Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it. Sharp.
3. An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war. Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge To this I answer in one word, from experience. Locke. Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment. Sir J. Herschel.
EXPERIENCE Ex*pe"ri*ence, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Experienced (-enst); p. pr. & vb. n. Experiencing (-en-sng).]
1. To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views. The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India. Thirwall.
2. To exercise; to train by practice. The youthful sailors thus with early care Their arms experience, and for sea prepare. Harte. To experience religion (Theol.), to become a convert to the diatribes of Christianity; to yield to the power of religions truth.
EXPERIENCED
Ex*pe"ri*enced (-enst), p. p. & a.
Defn: Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
EXPERIENCER
Ex*pe"ri*en*cer (-en-sr), n.
1. One who experiences.
2. An experimenter. [Obs.] Sir. K. Gigby.
EXPERIENCE TABLE
Ex*pe"ri*ence ta"ble. (Life Insurance)
Defn: A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.
EXPERIENT
Ex*pe"ri*ent (-ent), a.
Defn: Experienced. [Obs.]
The prince now ripe and full experient. Beau & Fl.
EXPERIENTIAL
Ex*pe`ri*en"tial, a.
Defn: Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. Coleridge. It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is divan to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning. Sir. W. Hamiltion. — Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly, adv. DR. H. More.
EXPERIENTIALISM
Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ism, n. (Philos.)
Defn: The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; — opposed to intuitionists. Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a philosophical one. G. C. Robertson.
EXPERIENTIALIST
Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ist, n.
Defn: One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.
EXPERIMENT
Ex*per"i*ment, n. Etym: [L. experimentum, fr. experiri to try: cf.
OF. esperiment, experiment. See Experience.]
1. Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof. A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, not determinant in a few hours. J. Adams.
2. Experience. [Obs.] Adam, by sad experiment I know How little weight my words with thee can find. Milton.
EXPERIMENT
Ex*per"i*ment, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Experimented; p. pr. & vb. n.
Experinenting.]
Defn: To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; — often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.
EXPERIMENT
Ex*per"i*ment, v.t
Defn: , To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience.
[Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.
EXPERIMENTAL
Ex*per`i*men"tal, a. Etym: [Cf.F. expérimental.]
1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.
2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
EXPERIMENTALIST
Ex*per`i*men"tal*ist, n.
Defn: One who makes experiments; an experimenter. Whaterly.
EXPERIMENTALIZE
Ex*per`i*men"tal*ize, v. i.
Defn: To make experiments (upon); to experiment. J. S. Mill.
EXPERIMENTALLY
Ex*per`i*men"tal*ly, adv.
Defn: By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill.
EXPERIMENTARIAN
Ex*per`i*men*ta"ri*an, a.
Defn: Relying on experiment or experience. "an experimentarian philosopher." Boyle. — n.
Defn: One who relies on experiment or experience. [Obs.]
EXPERIMENTATION
Ex*per`i*men*ta"tion, n.
Defn: The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill.
EXPERIMENTATIVE
Ex*per`imen"ta*tive, a.
Defn: Experimental; of the nature of experiment. [R.]
EXPERIMENTATOR
Ex*per"i*men*ta`tor, n. Etym: [LL.]
Defn: An experimenter. [R.]
EXPERIMENTER
Ex*per"i*men`ter, n.
Defn: One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.
EXPERIMENTIST
Ex*per"i*men`tist, n.
Defn: An experimenter.
EXPERRECTION Ex`per*rec"tion, n. Etym: [L. expergisci, p. p. experrectus, to rose up; ex out + pergere to wake up.]
Defn: A waking up or arousing. [Obs.] Holland
EXPERT
Ex*pert", a. Etym: [F. expert, L. expertus, p. p. of experiri to try.
See Experience.]
Defn: Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert gentleman. Shak. What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert Tennison.
Syn.
— Adroit; dexterous; clever; ready; prompt.
EXPERT
Ex"pert, n.
1. An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.
2. (Law) (a) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.
Note: Such specialists may be witnesses in matters as to which ordinary observers could not without such aid form just conclusions, and are liable for negligence in case they injure another from want of proper qualifications or proper care in the exercise of their specialty. (b) A sworn appraiser.
EXPERT
Ex*pert", v. t.
Defn: To experience. [Obs.]
Die would we daily, once it to expert. Spencer.
EXPERTLY
Ex*pert"ly, adv.
Defn: In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.
EXPERTNESS
Ex*pert"ness, n.
Defn: Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.
Syn.
— Facility; readiness; dexterity; adroitness; skill. See Facility.
EXPETIBLE Ex*pet"ible, a. Etym: [L., expetibilis, fr. expetere to wish for; ex out + petere to seek.]
Defn: Worthy of being wished for; desirable. [Obs.] Puller.
EXPIABLE
Ex"pi*a*ble, a. Etym: [See Expiate.]
Defn: Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt. Bp. Hall.
EXPIATE Ex"pi*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expiated;p. pr. & vb. n. Expiating.] Etym: [L. expiatus, p.p. of expiare to expiate; ex out + piare to seek to appease, to purify with sacred rites, fr. pius pious. See Pious.]
1. To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin. To expiate his treason, hath naught left. Milton. The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury. Clarendon.
2. To purify with sacred rites. [Obs.] Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire. Deut. xviii. 10 (Douay version)
EXPIATE
Ex"pi*ate, a. Etym: [L. expiatus,p.p]
Defn: Terminated. [Obs.] Shak.
EXPIATION
Ex`pi*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. expiatio: cf.F. expiation]
1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving.
2. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement. Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats. Milton.
3. An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.
EXPIATIST
Ex"pi*a*tist, n.
Defn: An expiator. [R.]
EXPIATOR
Ex"pi*a`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who makes expiation or atonement.
EXPIATORIOUS
Ex`pi*a*to"ri*ous, a.
Defn: Of an expiatory nature; expiatory. Jer. Taylor.
EXPIATORY
Ex"pi*a*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. expiatorius: cf. F. expiatoire.]
Defn: Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.
EXPILATION
Ex`pi*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. expiatio.]
Defn: The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.
[Obs.]
This ravenous expiation of the state. Daniel.
EXPILATOR
Ex"pi*la`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. [Obs.] Sir T.
Browne.
EXPIRABLE
Ex*pir"a*ble, a.
Defn: That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.
EXPIRANT
Ex*pir"ant, n.
Defn: One who expires or is expiring.
EXPIRATION
Ex`pi*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. expiratio,exspiratio: cf. F. expiration.
See Expire.]
1. The act of expiring; as: (a)(Physiol.)
Defn: The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; — opposed to Ant: inspiration. (b) Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth. Bacon.
(c) The last emission of breath; death. "The groan of expiration." Rambler. (d) A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end. Before the expiration of thy time. Shak.
2. That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound. The aspirate "he," which is . . . a gentle expiration. G. Sharp.
EXPIRATORY
Ex*pir"a*to*ry, a. (Physiol.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.
EXPIRE
Ex*pire", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expired;p. pr & vb. n. Expiring.] Etym:
[L. expirare, exspirare, expiratum, exspiratum; ex out + spirare to
breathe: cf. F. expirer. See Spirit.]
1. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; — opposed to inspire. Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey. This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. Dryden.
2. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors. The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. Bacon.
3. To emit; to give out. [Obs.] Dryden.
4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.] Expire the term Of a despised life. Shak.
EXPIRE
Ex*pire", v. i.
1. To emit the breath.
2. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
3. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.
4. To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [Obs.] "The ponderous ball expires." Dryden.
EXPIRING
Ex*pir"ing, a.
1. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
2. Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.
EXPIRY
Ex"pi*ry, n.
Defn: Expiration.
He had to leave at the expiry of the term. Lamb.
The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term. J.
Morley.
EXPISCATE Ex*pis"cate, v. t. Etym: [L. expiscatus, p.p. of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish.]
Defn: To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] Nichol. Dr.Burton has with much ingenuity endeavord to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander.
EXPISCATION
Ex`pis*ca"tion, n.
Defn: The act of expiscating; a fishing. [R.] Chapman.
EXPISCATORY
Ex*pis"ca*to*ry, a.
Defn: Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.
EXPLAIN Ex*plain", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explained;p. pr. & vb. n. Explaining.] Etym: [L. explandare to flatten, spread out, explain; ex out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, explaner. See Plain,a., and cf. Esplanade.]
1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn.
2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible. Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you. Gay. To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite "away." Pope.
Syn.
— To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.
EXPLAIN
Ex*plain", v. i.
Defn: To give an explanation.
EXPLAINABLE
Ex*plain"a*ble, a. Etym: [L. explainabilis.]
Defn: Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted. Sir. T. Browne.
EXPLAINER
Ex*plain"er, n.
Defn: One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
EXPLANATE
Ex"pla*nate, a. Etym: [L. explanatus, p.p. of explanare. See
Explain.] (Bot. & Zoöl.)
Defn: Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.
EXPLANATION
Ex`pla*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. explanatio: cf. OF. esplanation.]
1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.
2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.
3. The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; inerpretation; sense. Different explanations [of the Trinity]. Bp. Burnet.
4. A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.
Syn. — Definition; description; explication; exposition; interpretation; detail. See Definition.
EXPLANATIVE
Ex*plan"a*tive, a.
Defn: Explanatory.
EXPLANATORINESS
Ex*plan"a*to*ri*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being explanatory.
EXPLANATORY
Ex*plan"a*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. explanatorius.]
Defn: Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. Swift.
EXPLAT; EXPLATE
Ex*plat", Ex*plate", v. t. Etym: [Pref. ex-+plat or plait.]
Defn: To explain; to unfold. [Obs.]
Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws. B. Jonson.
EXPLETION
Ex*ple"tion, n. Etym: [L. expletio a satisfying. See Expletive.]
Defn: Accomplishment; fulfillment. [Obs.] Killingbeck.
EXPLETIVE Ex"ple*tive, a. Etym: [L. expletivus, from expletus, p.p. of explere to fill up; ex out+plere to fill, akin to plenus full: cf. F. explétif. See Full.]
Defn: Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. "Expletive imagery." Hallam. Expletive phrases to plump his speech. Barrow.
EXPLETIVE
Ex"ple*tive, n.
Defn: A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath. While explectives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Pope.
EXPLETIVELY
Ex"ple*tive*ly, adv.
Defn: In the manner of an expletive.
EXPLETORY
Ex"ple*to*ry, a.
Defn: Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. Bp. Burnet.
EXPLICABLE
Ex"pli*ca*ble, a. Etym: [L. explicabilis: cf. F. explicable.]
Defn: Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation. It is not explicable upon any grounds. Burke.
EXPLICABLENESS
Ex"pli*ca*ble*ness, n.
Defn: Quality of being explicable.
EXPLICATE
Ex"pli*cate, a. Etym: [L. explicatus, p.p. of explicare.]
Defn: Evolved; unfolded. Jer. Taylor.
EXPLICATE
Ex"pli*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explicated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Explicating.]
1. To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] "They explicate the leaves." Blackmore.
2. To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated. Dryden.
EXPLICATION
Ex`pli*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. explicatio: cf. F. explication.]
1. The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation. The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury.
2. The sense given by an expositor. Bp. Burnet.
EXPLICATIVE
Ex"pli*ca*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. explicatif.]
Defn: Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory. Sir W. Hamilton.
EXPLICATOR
Ex"pli*ca`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.
EXPLICATORY
Ex"pli*ca`to*ry, a.
Defn: Explicative. Barrow.
EXPLICIT Ex"pli*cit. Etym: [LL., an abbreviation of explicitus (est liber) the book (which anciently was a roll of parchment) is unfolded (and, of course, "finished"). See Explicit, a.]
Defn: A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.
EXPLICIT
Ex*plic"it, a. Etym: [L. explicitus; p.p. of explicare to unfold: cf.
F. explicite. See Explicate, Exploit.]
1. Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration. The language of the charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt. Bancroft.
2. Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; — applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement. Explicit function. (Math.) See under Function.
Syn. — Express; clear; plain; open; unreserved; unambiguous. — Explicit, Express. Explicit denotes a setting forth in the plainest, language, so that the meaning can not be misunderstood; as, an explicit promise. Express is stronger than explicit: it adds force to clearness. An express promise or engagement is not only unambiguous, but stands out in bold relief, with the most binding hold on the conscience. An explicit statement; a clear and explicit notion; explicit direction; no words can be more explicit. An explicit command; an express prohibition. "An express declaration goes forcibly and directly to the point. An explicit declaration leaves nothing ambiguous." C. J. Smith.
EXPLICITLY
Ex*plic"it*ly, adv.
Defn: In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.
EXPLICITNESS
Ex*plic"it*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness. Jer.
Taylor.
EXPLODE Ex*plode", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Exploded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exploding.] Etym: [L. explodere, explosum, to drive out, drive out a player by clapping; ex out+plaudere, plodere, to clap, strike, applaud: cf. OF. exploder. See Plausible.]
1. To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.
2. To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.
3. To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.
EXPLODE
Ex*plode", v. t.
1. To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play. [Obs.] Him old and young Exploded, and seized with violent hands. Milton.
2. To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine. Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. Burke. To explode and exterminate dark atheism. Bently.
3. To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
4. To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder. But late the kindled powder did explode The massy ball and the brass tube unload. Blackmore.
EXPLODENT
Ex*plod"ent, n.
1. An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.
2. See Explosive, n.,
2.
EXPLODER
Ex*plod"er, n.
1. One who or that which explodes.
2. One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt. South.
EXPLOIT Ex*ploit", n. Etym: [OE. esploit success, OF. esploit, espleit,revenue, product, vigor, force, exploit, F. exploit exploit, fr. L. explicitum, prop. p.p. neut. of explicare to unfold, display, exhibit; ex+plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Explicit, Explicate.]
1. A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great. Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. Shak.
2. Combat; war. [Obs.] He made haste to exploit some warlike service. Holland.
2. Etym: [F. exploiter.]
Defn: To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion. [Recent]
3. Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon. [Recent] In no sense whatever does a man who accumulates a fortune by legitimate industry exploit his employés or make his capital "out of" anybody else. W. G. Sumner.
EXPLOITATION
Ex`ploi*ta"tion, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: The act of exploiting or utilizing. J. D. Whitney.
EXPLOITURE
Ex*ploi"ture, n.
1. The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement. [Obs.] Udall.
2. Exploitation. Harper's Mag.
EXPLORABLE
Ex*plor"a*ble, a.
Defn: That may be explored; as, an explorable region.
EXPLORATE
Ex*plo"rate, v. t. Etym: [L. explorare, exploratum.]
Defn: To explore. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.
EXPLORATION
Ex`plo*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. exploratio: cf. F. exploration.]
Defn: The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries; (Med.)
Defn: physical examination.
"An exploration of doctrine." Bp. Hall.
EXPLORATIVE
Ex*plor"a*tive, a.
Defn: Exploratory.
EXPLORATOR
Ex"plo*ra`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher.
EXPLORATORY
Ex*plor"a*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. exploratorius.]
Defn: Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton.
EXPLORE
Ex*plore", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explored;p. pr. & vb. n. Exploring.]
Etym: [L. explorare to explore; ex out+plorare to cry out aloud,prob.
orig., to cause to flow; perh. akin to E. flow: cf. F. explorer.]
1. To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for. [Obs.] Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs. Pope.
2. To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science. "Hidden frauds [to] explore." Dryden.
EXPLOREMENT
Ex*plore"ment, n.
Defn: The act of exploring; exploration. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
EXPLORER
Ex*plor"er, n.
Defn: One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.
EXPLORING
Explor"ing, a.
Defn: Employed in, or designed for, exploration. "Exploring parties."
Bancroft.
EXPLOSION Ex*plo"sion, n. Etym: [L. explosio a driving off by clapping: cf. F. explosion explosion. See Explode.]
1. The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc.
2. A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc.
3. A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath. A formidable explosion of high-church fanaticism. Macaulay.
EXPLOSIVE
Ex*plo"sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. explosif.]
Defn: Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
EXPLOSIVE
Ex*plo"sive, n.
1. An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.
2. A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice.
Note: [See Guide to Pronunciation, sq. root 155-7, 184.]
EXPLOSIVELY
Ex*plo"sive*ly, adv.
Defn: In an explosive manner.
EXPOLIATION
Ex*po`li*a"tion, n.
Defn: See Exspoliation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
EXPOLISH
Ex*pol"ish, v. t. Etym: [Cf. L. expolire. See Polish.]
Defn: To polish thoroughly. [Obs.] Heywood.
EXPONE
Ex*pone", v. t. Etym: [OE. exponen. See Expound.]
Defn: To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil. [Old Eng. & Scotch] Drummond.
EXPONENT Ex*po"nent, n. Etym: [L. exponens, -entis, p. pr. of exponere to put out, set forth, expose. See Expound.]
1. (Alg.)
Defn: A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated;
Note: thus a2 denotes the second power, and an the xth power, of a (2 and x being the exponents). A fractional exponent, or index, is used to denote the root of a quantity. Thus, a denotes the third or cube root of a.
2. One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles. Exponent of a ratio, the quotient arising when the antecedent is divided by the consequent; thus, 6 is the exponent of the ratio of 30 to 5. [R.]
EXPONENTIAL
Ex`po*nen"tial, a. Etym: [Cf. F. exponentiel.]
Defn: Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function. Exponential curve, a curve whose nature is defined by means of an exponential equation. — Exponential equation, an equation which contains an exponential quantity, or in which the unknown quantity enters as an exponent. — Exponential quantity (Math.), a quantity whose exponent is unknown or variable, as ax. — Exponential series, a series derived from the development of exponential equations or quantities.
EXPORT
Ex*port", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exported; p. pr. & vb. n. Exporting.]
Etym: [L. exportare, exportatum; ex out+portare to carry : cf. F.
exporter. See Port demeanor.]
1. To carry away; to remove. [Obs.] [They] export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy. Bacon.
2. To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; — the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc.
EXPORT
Ex"port, n.
1. The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.
2. That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; — used chiefly in the plural, exports. The ordinary course of exchange . . . between two places must likewise be an indication of the ordinary course of their exports and imports. A. Smith.
EXPORTABILITY
Ex*port`a*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being suitable for exportation.
To increase the exportability of native goods. J. P. Peters.
EXPORTABLE
Ex*port"a*ble, a.
Defn: Suitable for exportation; as, exportable products.
EXPORTATION
Ex`por*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. exportatio: cf. F. exporation.]
1. The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce.
2. Commodity exported; an export.
3. The act of carrying out. [R.] Bourne.
EXPORTER
Ex*port"er, n.
Defn: One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; — opposed to importer.
EXPOSAL
Ex*pos"al, n.
Defn: Exposure. Swift.
EXPOSE
Ex*pose", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Exposing.]
Etym: [F. exposer; pref. ex- (L. ex out)+poser to place. See Pose, v.
t.]
1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them examined. Locke.
2. To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. Shak.
3. To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor. You only expose the follies of men, without arraigning their vices. Dryden.
4. To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite.
EXPOSE
Ex`po`sé", n. Etym: [F., prop.p.p. of exposer. See Expose, v. t.]
Defn: A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.
EXPOSEDNESS
Ex*pos"ed*ness, n.
Defn: The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
EXPOSER
Ex*pos"er, n.
Defn: One who exposes or discloses.
EXPOSITION
Ex`po*si"tion, n. Etym: [L. expositio, fr. exponere, expositum: cf.
F. exposition. See Expound.]
1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. Shak.
3. Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.
4. A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878. [A Gallicism]
EXPOSITIVE
Ex*pos"i*tive, a.
Defn: Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson.
EXPOSITOR
Ex*pos"i*tor, n. Etym: [L. See Expound.]
Defn: One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.
EXPOSITORY
Ex*pos"i*to*ry, a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.
EXPOST FACTO; EXPOSTFACTO Ex"post` fac"to, or Ex"post`fac"to. Etym: [L., from what is done afterwards.] (Law)
Defn: From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true application, as employed in American law, it relates only to crimes, and signifies a law which retroacts, by way of criminal punishment, upon that which was not a crime before its passage, or which raises the grade of an offense, or renders an act punishable in a more severe manner that it was when committed. Ex post facto laws are held to be contrary to the fundamental principles of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States. Burrill. Kent.
EX POST FACTO; EX POSTFACTO Ex" post` fac"to, or Ex" post`fac"to (eks" post" fak"to). [L., from what is done afterwards.] (Law)
Defn: From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective.
Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true application, as employed in American law, it relates only to crimes, and signifies a law which retroacts, by way of criminal punishment, upon that which was not a crime before its passage, or which raises the grade of an offense, or renders an act punishable in a more severe manner that it was when committed. Ex post facto laws are held to be contrary to the fundamental principles of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States. Burrill. Kent.
EXPOSTULATE
Ex*pos"tu*late, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Expostulated;p. pr. & vb. n.
Expostulating.] Etym: [L. expostulatus, p.p. of expostulare to demand
vehemently; ex out + postulare to ask, require. See Postulate.]
Defn: To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; — followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong. Jowett (Thuc. ).
Syn.
— To remonstrate; reason. See Remonstrate.
EXPOSTULATE
Ex*pos"tu*late, v. t.
Defn: To discuss; to examine. [Obs.]
To expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is. Shak.
EXPOSTULATION
Ex*pos`tu*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. expostulatio.]
Defn: The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.
EXPOSTULATOR
Ex*pos"tu*la`tor (;135), n.
Defn: One who expostulates. Lamb.
EXPOSTULATORY
Ex*pos"tu*la*to*ry, a.
Defn: Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.
EXPOSTURE
Ex*pos"ture (;135), n. Etym: [Cf. Imposture.]
Defn: Exposure. [Obs.] Shak.
EXPOSURE
Ex*po"sure (;135), n. Etym: [From Expose.]
1. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe. Macaulay.
2. The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold to inconvenience. When we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure. Shak.
3. Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc. "Under a southern exposure. Evelyn. The best exposure of the two for woodcocks. Sir. W. Scott.
4. (Photog.)
Defn: The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.
EXPOUND Ex*pound", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Expounding.] Etym: [OE. exponen, expounen, expounden, fr. L. exponere to set out, expose, expound; ex out + ponere to put: cf. OE. expondre, expondre. See Position.]
1. To lay open; to expose to view; to examine. [Obs.] He expounded both his pockets. Hudibras.
2. To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle. Expound this matter more fully to me. Bunyan.
EXPOUNDER
Ex*pound"er, n.
Defn: One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.
EXPRESS Ex*press", a. Etym: [F. exprès, L. expressus, p.p. of exprimere to express; ex. out + premere To press. See Press.]
1. Exactly representing; exact. Their human countenance The express resemblance of the gods. Milton.
2. Directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious; as, express consent; an express statement. I have express commandment. Shak.
3. Intended for a particular purpose; relating to an express; sent on a particular errand; dispatched with special speed; as, an express messenger or train. Also used adverbially. A messenger sent express from the other world. Atterbury. Express color. (Law) See the Note under Color, n., 8.
Syn.
— Explicit; clear; unambiguous. See Explicit.
EXPRESS
Ex*press", n. Etym: [Cf. F. exprès a messenger.]
1. A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain
declaration. [Obs.]
The only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth. Jer.
Taylor.
2. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality.
3. An express office. She charged him . . . to ask at the express if anything came up from town. E. E. Hale.
4. That which is sent by an express messenger or message. [Obs.] Eikon Basilike. Express office, an office where packages for an express are received or delivered.
EXPRESS
Ex*press", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expressed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Expressing.] Etym: [Cf. OF. espresser, expresser, L. exprimere,
expressum. See Express,a.; cf. Sprain.]
1. To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit. All the fruits out of which drink is expressed. Bacon. And th'idle breath all utterly expressed. Spenser. Halters and racks can not express from thee More than by deeds. B. Jonson.
2. To make or offer a representation of; to show by a copy or likeness; to represent; to resemble. Each skillful artist shall express thy form. E. Smith. So kids and whelps their sires and dams express. Dryden.
3. To give a true impression of; to represent and make known; to manifest plainly; to show in general; to exhibit, as an opinion or feeling, by a look, gesture, and esp. by language; to declare; to utter; to tell. My words express my purpose. Shak. They expressed in their lives those excellent doctrines of morality. Addison.
4. To make known the opinions or feelings of; to declare what is in the mind of; to show (one's self); to cause to appear; — used reflexively. Mr. Phillips did express with much indignation against me, one evening. Pope.
5. To denote; to designate. Moses and Aaron took these men, which are expressed by their names. Num. i. 17.
6. To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package.
Syn.
— To declare; utter; signify; testify; intimate.
EXPRESSAGE
Ex*press"age (;48), n.
Defn: The charge for carrying a parcel by express.
EXPRESSIBLE
Ex*press"i*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented,
or uttered.
— Express"i*bly,adv.
EXPRESSION
Ex*pres"sion, n. Etym: [L. expressio. cf. F. expression.]
1. The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.
2. The act of declaring or signifying; declaration; utterance; as, an expression of the public will. With this tone of philosophy were mingled expressions of sympathy. Prescott.
3. Lively or vivid representation of meaning, sentiment, or feeling, etc.; significant and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance, or gesture; that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments; as, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression. The imitators of Shakespeare, fixing their attention on his wonderful power of expression, have directed their imitation to this. M. Arnold.
4. That which is expressed by a countenance, a posture, a work of art, etc.; look, as indicative of thought or feeling. "The expression of an eye." Tennyson. It still wore the majesty of expression so conspicuous in his portraits by the inimitable pencil of Titian. Prescott.
5. A form of words in which an idea or sentiment is conveyed; a mode of speech; a phrase; as, a common expression; an odd expression.
6. (Math.)
Defn: The representation of any quantity by its appropriate characters or signs. Past expression, Beyond expression, beyond the power of description. "Beyond expression bright." Milton.
EXPRESSIONAL
Ex*pres"sion*al, a.
Defn: Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.
EXPRESSIONLESS
Ex*pres"sion*less, a.
Defn: Destitute of expression.
EXPRESSIVE
Ex*press"ive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. expressif.]
1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; — followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell.
2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning or feeling meant to be conveyed; significant; emphatic; as, expressive looks or words. You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them. Shak. Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly spoke. Littelton. — Ex*press"ive*ly,adv. — Ex*press"ive*ness,n.
EXPRESSLY
Ex*press"ly, adv.
Defn: In an express manner; in direct terms; with distinct purpose;
particularly; as, a book written expressly for the young.
The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel. Ezek. i. 3.
I am sent expressly to your lordship. Shak.
EXPRESSMAN
Ex*press"man, n.; pl. Expressmen (.
Defn: A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.
EXPRESSNESS
Ex*press"ness, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being express; definiteness. [Obs.]
Hammond.
EXPRESS RIFLE
Ex*press" ri"fle.
Defn: A sporting rifle for use at short ranges, employing a large charge of powder and a light (short) bullet, giving a high initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory. It is usually of moderately large caliber.
EXPRESS TRAIN
Express train.
Defn: Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
EXPRESSURE
Ex*pres"sure (;135), n.
Defn: The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation.
[Obs.]
An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to.
Shak.
EXPROBRATE Ex"pro*brate, v. t. Etym: [L. exprobratus, p.p. of exprobrare; ex out + probrum a shameful or disgraceful act.]
Defn: To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
EXPROBRATION
Ex`pro*bra"tion, n. Etym: [L. exprobration: cf. F. exprobration.]
Defn: Reproachful accusation; upbraiding. [Obs.]
A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.
EXPROBRATIVE; EXPROBRATORY
Ex*pro"bra*tive, Ex*pro"bra*to*ry, a.
Defn: Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful. [R.] Sir A.
Shirley.
EXPROPRIATE Ex*pro"pri*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. ex out, from + proprius one's own: cf. F. exproprier.]
Defn: To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of;
also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. Boyle.
Expropriate these [bad landlords] as the monks were expropriated by
Act of Parliament. M. Arnold.
EXPROPRIATION
Ex*pro`pri*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. expropriation.]
Defn: The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive
property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights. W.
Montagu.
The expropriation of bad landlords. M. Arnold.
EXPUGN Ex*pugn", v. t. Etym: [L. expugnare; ex out + pugnare to fight, pugna fight. Cf. Impugn.]
Defn: To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.
EXPUGNABLE
Ex*pug"nable, a. Etym: [L. Expugnabilis.]
Defn: Capable of being expugnded.
EXPUGNATION
Ex`pug*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. expugnatio.]
Defn: The act of taking by assault; conquest. [R.] Sandys.
EXPUGNER
Ex*pugn"er, n.
Defn: One who expugns.
EXPULSE Ex*pulse", v. t. Etym: [F. expulser or L. expulsare, intens. fr. expellere. See Expel.]
Defn: To drive out; to expel. [Obs.]
If charity be thus excluded and expulsed. Milton.
EXPULSER
Ex*puls"er, n.
Defn: An expeller. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
EXPULSION
Ex*pul"sion, n. Etym: [L. expulsio, fr. expellere: cf. F. expulsion.
See Expel.]
1. The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc. The expulsion of the Tarquins. Shak.
2. The state of being expelled or driven out.
EXPULSIVE
Ex*pul"sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. expulsif.]
Defn: Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.
The expulsive power of a new affection. Chalmers.
EXPUNCTION Ex*punc"tion, n. Etym: [L. expunctio execution, performance, from expungere. See Expunge.]
Defn: The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged. Milton.
EXPUNGE
Ex*punge", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expunged;p. pr. & vb. n.
Expunging.] Etym: [L. expungere, expunctum, prick out, expunge,
settle an account, execute; ex out + pungere to prick, puncture. See
Pungent.]
1. To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.
2. To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense. Sandys. Expugne the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts. Pope.
Syn. — To efface; erase; obliterate; strike out; destroy; annihilate; cancel.
EXPURGATE Ex"pur*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expurgated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expurgating.] Etym: [L. expurgatus, p.p. of expurgare to purge, purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge, and cf. Spurge.]
Defn: To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.
EXPURGATION Ex`pur*ga"tion, n. Etym: [L. expurgatio justification, excuse: cf. F. expurgation.]
Defn: The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous. Milton.
EXPURGATOR
Ex"pur*ga`tor, n.
Defn: One who expurgates or purifies.
EXPURGATORIAL
Ex*pur`ga*to"ri*al, a.
Defn: Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman.
EXPURGATORIOUS
Ex*pur`ga*to"ri*ous, a.
Defn: Expurgatory. [Obs.] "Expurgatorious indexes." Milton.
EXPURGATORY
Ex*pur"ga*to*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. expurgatoire.]
Defn: Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying. "Expurgatory animadversions." Sir T. Browne. Expurgatory Index. See Index Expurgatorius, under Index.
EXPURGE
Ex*purge", v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. espurgier. See Expurgate.]
Defn: To purge away. [Obs.] Milton.
EXQUIRE
Ex*quire", v. t. Etym: [L. exquirere. See Exquisite.]
Defn: To search into or out. [Obs.] Chapman.
EXQUISITE Ex"qui*site, a. Etym: [L. exquisitus, p.p. of exquirere to search out; ex out + quarere to seek, search. See Quest.]
1. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak. I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough. Shak.
2. Exceeding; extreme; keen; — used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.
3. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment. His books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite. Fuller.
Syn. — Nice; delicate; exact; refined; choice; rare; matchless; consummate; perfect.
EXQUISITE
Ex"qui*site, n.
Defn: One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
EXQUISITELY
Ex"qui*site*ly, adv.
Defn: In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.
EXQUISITENESS
Ex"qui*site*ness, n.
Defn: Quality of being exquisite.
EXQUISITIVE
Ex*quis"i*tive, a.
Defn: Eager to discover or learn; curious. [Obs.] Todd.
— Ex*quis"i*tive*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
EXSANGUINE
Ex*san"guine, a.
Defn: Bloodless. [R.]
EXSANGUINEOUS
Ex`san*guin"e*ous, a.
Defn: Destitute of blood; anæmic; exsanguious.
EXSANGUINITY
Ex`san*guin"i*ty, n. (Med.)
Defn: Privation or destitution of blood; — opposed to plethora.
Dunglison.
EXSANGUINOUS
Ex*san"gui*nous, a.
Defn: See Exsanguious.
EXSANGUIOUS Ex*san"gui*ous, a. Etym: [L. exsanguis; ex out + sanguis, sanguinis, blood. Cf. Exsanguineous.]
1. Destitute of blood. Sir T. Browne.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Destitute of true, or red, blood, as insects.
EXSCIND
Ex*scind", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exscinded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exscinding.] Etym: [L. exscindere; ex out, from + scindere to cut.]
Defn: To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate.
Barrow.
The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that
Assembly. Am. Cyc.
EXSCRIBE Ex*scribe", v. t. Etym: [L. excribere; ex out, from + scribere to write.]
Defn: To copy; to transcribe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
EXSCRIPT
Ex"script, n. Etym: [L. exscriptus, p.p. of exscribere.]
Defn: A copy; a transcript. [Obs.] Bailey.
EXSCRIPTURAL
Ex*scrip"tur*al, a. Etym: [Pref. ex-+scriptural.]
Defn: Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural.
EXSCUTELLATE
Ex*scu"tel*late, a. Etym: [Pref. ex- + scutellate.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; — said of certain insects.
EXSECT
Ex*sect", v. t. Etym: [L. exsectio.]
1. A cutting out or away. E. Darwin.
2. (Surg.)
Defn: The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out.
EXSERT; EXSERTED Ex*sert", Ex*sert"ed, a. Etym: [L. exsertus, p.p. of exserere to stretch out or forth. See Exert.]
Defn: Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert
stamens.
A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted. D. H.
Barnes.
EXSERTILE
Ex*sert"ile, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Capable of being thrust out or protruded. J. Fleming.
EXSICCANT
Ex*sic"cant, a. Etym: [L. exsiccans, p.pr. of exsiccare. See
Exsiccate.]
Defn: Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
— n. (Med.)
Defn: An exsiccant medicine.
EXSICCATE
Ex"sic*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exsiccated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exsiccating.] Etym: [L. exsiccatus, p.p. of exsiccare to dry up; ex
out + siccare to make dry, siccus dry.]
Defn: To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T.
Browne.
EXSICCATION
Ex`sic*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. exsiccatio: cf. F. exsiccation.]
Defn: The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne.
EXSICCATIVE
Ex*sic"ca*tive, a.
Defn: Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.
EXSICCATOR
Ex"sic*ca`tor, n. (Chem.)
Defn: An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.
EXSILIENCY Ex*sil"i*en*cy, n. Etym: [L. exsiliens leaping out, p.pr. of exsilire; ex out + salire to leap.]
Defn: A leaping out. [R.] Latham.
EXSOLUTION
Ex`so*lu"tion, n. Etym: [L. exsolutio a release.]
Defn: Relaxation. [R.] Richardson (Dict. ).
EXSPOLIATION Ex*spo`li*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. exspoliatio, fr. exspoliare to spoil, to plunder; ex out, from + spoliare. See Spoliate.]
Defn: Spoliation. [Obs. or R.] Bp. Hall.
EXSPUITION
Ex`spu*i"tion, n. Etym: [L. exspuitio; ex out + spuere to spit: cf.
F. exspuition.]
Defn: A discharge of saliva by spitting. [R.] E. Darwin.
EXSPUTORY
Ex*spu"to*ry, a.
Defn: Spit out, or as if spit out. "Exsputory lines." Cowper.
EXSTIPULATE
Ex*stip"u*late, a. Etym: [Pref. ex- + stipulate.] (Bot.)
Defn: Having no stipules. Martyn.
EXSTROPHY
Ex"stro*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. (Med.)
Defn: The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.
EXSUCCOUS
Ex*suc"cous, a. Etym: [L. exsuccus; ex out + succus juice.]
Defn: Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham.
EXSUCTION Ex*suc"tion, n. Etym: [L. exsugere, exsuctum, to suck out; ex out + sugere to suck: cf. F. exsuccion.]
Defn: The act of sucking out.
EXSUDATION
Ex`su*da"tion, n.
Defn: Exudation.
EXSUFFLATE Ex`suf*flate", v. t. Etym: [L. exsufflare to blow at or upon; ex out + sufflare. See Sufflate.] (Eccles.)
Defn: To exorcise or renounce by blowing.
EXSUFFLATION
Ex`suf*fla"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. LL. exsufflatio.]
1. A blast from beneath. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. (Eccles.)
Defn: A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath. Jer. Taylor.
3. (Physiol.)
Defn: A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.
EXSUFFLICATE
Ex*suf"fli*cate, a.
Defn: Empty; frivolous. [A Shakespearean word only once used.]
Such exsufflicate and blown surmises. Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182).
EXSUSCITATE Ex*sus"ci*tate, v. t. Etym: [L. exsuscitatus, p.p. of exsuscitare; ex out + suscitare. See Suscitate.]
Defn: To rouse; to excite. [Obs.] Johnson.
EXSUSCITATION
Ex*sus`ci*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. exsuscitatio.]
Defn: A stirring up; a rousing. [Obs.] Hallywell.
EXTACY
Ex"ta*cy, n.
Defn: See Ecstasy. [Obs.]
EXTANCE Ex"tance, n. Etym: [L. extantia, exstantia, a standing out, fr. exstans, p.pr. See Extant.]
Defn: Outward existence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
EXTANCY
Ex"tan*cy, n. Etym: [L. extantia, exstantia.]
Defn: The state of rising above others; a projection. Evelyn. Boyle.
EXTANT
Ex"tant, a. Etym: [L. extans, -antis, or exstans, -antis, p.pr. of
extare, exstare, to stand out or forth; ex out + stare to stand: cf.
F. extant. See Stand.]
1. Standing out or above any surface; protruded. That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums. Ray. A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant. Bentley.
2. Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding. Writings that were extant at that time. Sir M. Hale. The extant portraits of this great man. I. Taylor.
3. Publicly known; conspicuous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
EXTASY
Ex"ta*sy, n. & v. t.
Defn: See Ecstasy, n. & v. t.
EXTATIC
Ex*tat"ic, a.
Defn: See Ecstatic, a.
EXTEMPORAL
Ex*tem"po*ral, a. Etym: [L. extemporalis, from ex tempore.]
Defn: Extemporaneous; unpremeditated. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
— Ex*tem"po*ral*ly, adv. [Obs.]
EXTEMPORANEAN
Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*an, a.
Defn: Extemporaneous. [Obs] Burton.
EXTEMPORANEOUS
Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous, a. Etym: [See Extempore.]
Defn: Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production. — Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly, adv. — Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness,n.
EXTEMPORARILY
Ex*tem"po*ra*ri*ly, adv.
Defn: Extemporaneously.
EXTEMPORARY
Ex*tem"po*ra*ry, a.
1. Extemporaneous. "In extemporary prayer." Fuller.
2. Made for the occasion; for the time being. [Obs.] "Extemporary habitations." Maundrell.
EXTEMPORE
Ex*tem"po*re, adv. Etym: [L. ex out + tempus, temporis, time. See
Temporal.]
Defn: Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore. Shak. — a.
Defn: Done or performed extempore. "Extempore dissertation." Addison. "Extempore poetry." Dryden. — n.
Defn: Speaking or writing done extempore. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.
EXTEMPORINESS
Ex*tem"po*ri*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being done or devised extempore [Obs.] Johnson.
EXTEMPORIZATION
Ex*tem`po*ri*za"tion, n.
Defn: The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
EXTEMPORIZE
Ex*tem"po*rize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Extemporized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Extemporizing.]
Defn: To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.
EXTEMPORIZE
Ex*tem"po*rize, v. t.
Defn: To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc. Themistocles . . . was of all men the best able to extemporize the right thing to be done. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech Lord Campbell.
EXTEMPORIZER
Ex*tem"po*ri`zer, n.
Defn: One who extemporizes.
EXTEND
Ex*tend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extended; p. pr. & vb. n. Extending.]
Etym: [L. extendere, extentum, extensum; ex out + tendere to stretch.
See Trend.]
1. To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street. Few extend their thoughts toward universal knowledge'. Locke.
2. To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.
3. To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.
4. To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand. His helpless hand extend. Dryden.
5. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering.
6. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors. G. P. Burnham.
7. (Eng. Law)
Defn: To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter (Typog.), a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height.
Note: This is extended type.
Syn.
— To increase; enlarge; expand; widen; diffuse. See Increase.
EXTENDANT
Ex*tend"ant, a. (Her.)
Defn: Displaced. Ogilvie.
EXTENDEDLY
Ex*tend"ed*ly, adv.
Defn: In an extended manner.
EXTENDER
Ex*tend"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.
EXTENDIBLE
Ex*tend"i*ble, a.
1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
2. (Law)
Defn: Liable to be taken by a writ of extent.
EXTENDLESSNESS
Ex*tend"less*ness, n.
Defn: Unlimited extension. [Obs.]
An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
EXTENSE
Ex*tense", a. Etym: [L. extensus, p.p. See Extend, v. t.]
Defn: Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.
Men and gods are too extense; Could you slacken and condense Emerson.
EXTENSIBILITY
Ex*ten`si*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.
EXTENSIBLE
Ex*ten"si*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. extensible. See Extend.]
Defn: Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; — the opposite of contractible or compressible. "An extensible membrane" Holder.
EXTENSIBLENESS
Ex*ten"si*ble*ness, n.
Defn: Extensibility.
EXTENSILE
Ex*ten"sile a.
Defn: Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.
EXTENSION Ex*ten"sion, n. Etym: [L. extensio: cf. F. extension. See Extend, v. t.]
1. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
2. (Physics)
Defn: That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.
3. (Logic & Metaph.)
Defn: Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension. The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension. Sir W. Hamilton. The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objects. Abp. Thomson.
4. (Surg.)
Defn: The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
5. (Physiol.)
Defn: The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.
6. (Com.)
Defn: A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt. Counter extension. (Surg.) See under Counter. — Extension table, a table so constructed as to be readily extended or contracted in length.
EXTENSIONAL
Ex*ten"sion*al, a.
Defn: Having great extent.
EXTENSIONIST
Ex*ten"sion*ist, n.
Defn: One who favors or advocates extension.
EXTENSIVE
Ex*ten"sive, a. Etym: [L. extensivus: cf. F. extensif. See Extend.]
1. Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.
2. Capable of being extended. [Obs.] Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which is most extensive under the hammer. Boyle.
EXTENSIVELY
Ex*ten"sive*ly, adv.
Defn: To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
EXTENSIVENESS
Ex*ten"sive*ness, n.
Defn: The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.
EXTENSOMETER
Ex`ten*som"e*ter, n. Etym: [Extension + -meter.]
Defn: An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.
EXTENSOR
Ex*ten"sor, n. Etym: [L., one who stretches. See Extend.] (Anat.)
Defn: A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; — opposed to flexor.
EXTENSURE
Ex*ten"sure, n.
Defn: Extension. [R.] Drayton.
EXTENT
Ex*tent", a. Etym: [L. extentus, p. p. of extendere. See Extend.]
Defn: Extended. [Obs.] Spenser.
EXTENT
Ex*tent", n. Etym: [L. extentus, fr. extendere. See Extend.]
1. Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity. Life in its large extent is scare a span. Cotton.
2. Degree; measure; proportion. "The extent to which we can make ourselves what we wish to be." Lubbock.
3. (Eng. Law) (a) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment. (b) A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.
EXTENUATE
Ex*ten"u*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extenuated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Extenuating.] Etym: [L. extenuatus, p. p. of extenuare to make
thin, loosen, weaken; ex out + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See
Tenuity.]
1. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness. His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. Grew.
2. To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; — opposed to aggravate. But fortune there extenuates the crime. Dryden. Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality. I. Taylor.
3. To lower or degrade; to detract from. [Obs.] Who can extenuate thee Milton.
Syn.
— To palliate; to mitigate. See Palliate.
EXTENUATE
Ex*ten"u*ate, v. i.
Defn: To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations. Burke.
EXTENUATE
Ex*ten"u*ate, a. Etym: [L. extenuatus, p. p.]
Defn: Thin; slender. [Obs.] Huloet.
EXTENUATION
Ex*ten`u*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. extenuatio: cf. F. exténuation.]
Defn: The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment. To listen . . . to every extenuation of what is evil. I. Taylor.
EXTENUATOR
Ex*ten"u*a`tor, n.
Defn: One who extenuates.
EXTENUATORY
Ex*ten"u*a*to*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. L. extenuatorius attenuating.]
Defn: Tending to extenuate or palliate. Croker.
EXTERIOR Ex*te"ri*or, a. Etym: [L. exterior, compar. of exter or exterus on the outside, outward, foreign, strange, a compar. fr. ex: cf. F. extérieur. See Ex, and cf. Extreme, Interior.]
1. External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; — opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere. Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was. Shak.
2. External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind. Without exterior help sustained. Milton.
3. Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom. Exterior angle (Geom.), the angle included between any side of a triangle or polygon and the prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outside. — Exterior side (Fort.), the side of the polygon upon which a front of fortification is formed. Wilhelm.
Note: See Illust. of Ravelin.
EXTERIOR
Ex*te"ri*or, n.
1. The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.
2. Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.
EXTERIORITY
Ex*te`ri*or"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. extériorité.]
Defn: Surface; superficies; externality.
EXTERIORLY
Ex*te"ri*or*ly, adv.
Defn: Outwardly; externally; on the exterior. Shak.
They are exteriorly lifelike. J. H. Morse.
EXTERMINATE Ex*ter"mi*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exterminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating.] Etym: [L. exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term.]
1. To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.
2. To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.
3. (Math.)
Defn: To eliminate, as unknown quantities. [R.]
EXTERMINATION
Ex*ter`mi*na"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. extermination.]
1. The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
2. (Math.)
Defn: Elimination. [R.]
EXTERMINATOR
Ex*ter"mi*na`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who, or that which, exterminates. Buckle.
EXTERMINATORY
Ex*ter"mi*na*to*ry, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate.
"Exterminatory war." Burke.
EXTERMINE
Ex*ter"mine, v. t. Etym: [F. exterminer.]
Defn: To exterminate; to destroy. [Obs.] Shak.
EXTERN
Ex*tern", a. Etym: [Cf. F. externe. See External.]
Defn: External; outward; not inherent. [Obs.] Shak.
EXTERN
Ex*tern", n. Etym: [Cf. F. externe.]
1. A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.
2. Outward form or part; exterior. [R.]
EXTERNAL Ex*ter"nal, a. Etym: [L. externus, fr. exter, exterus, on the outside, outward. See Exterior.]
1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; — opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body. Of all external things, . . . She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes. Milton.
2. Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind.
3. Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral. Her virtues graced with external gifts. Shak.
4. Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial. The external circumstances are greatly different. Trench.
5. Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.
6. (Anat.)
Defn: Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. (Geom.) See under Angle.
EXTERNAL
Ex*ter"nal, n.
Defn: Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a
show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; — usually
in the plural.
Adam was then no less glorious in his externals South.
God in externals could not place content. Pope.
EXTERNALISM
Ex*ter"nal*ism n.
1. The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals. This externalism gave Catholicism a great advantage on all sides. E. Eggleston.
2. (Metaph.)
Defn: That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism.
EXTERNALISTIC
Ex*ter`nal*is"tic, a.
Defn: Pertaining to externalism North Am. Rev.
EXTERNALITY
Ex`ter*nal"i*ty, n.
Defn: State of being external; exteriority; (Metaph.)
Defn: separation from the perceiving mind. Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality in the thing which presses or resists. A. Smith.
EXTERNALIZE
Ex*ter"nal*ize, v. t.
Defn: To make external; to manifest by outward form.
Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce.
EXTERNALLY
Ex*ter"nal*ly, adv.
Defn: In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
EXTERNE
Ex`terne", n. Etym: [F. Cf. Extern.] (med.)
Defn: An officer in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it; esp., one who cares for the out-patients.
EXTERRANEOUS
Ex`ter*ra"ne*ous, a. Etym: [L. exterraneus; es out + terra land.]
Defn: Foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad.
EXTERRITORIAL
Ex*ter`ri*to"ri*al, a. Etym: [Pref. ex.]
Defn: Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction. — Ex*ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly(#),adv.
EXTERRITORIALITY
Ex*ter`ri*to`ri*al"i*ty, n.
1. The state of being beyond the limits of a country.
2. The state of being free from the jurisdiction of a country when within its territorial limits.
EXTERSION Ex*ter"sion, n. Etym: [L. extergere, extersum, to wipe out; ex out + tergere to wipe or rub off.]
Defn: The act of wiping or rubbing out. [Obs.]
EXTILL
Ex*till", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Extilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Extilling.]
Etym: [L. extillare, exstillare; ex out + stillare to drop, stilla
drop.]
Defn: To drop or distill. [Obs.] Johnson.
EXTILLATION
Ex`til*la"tion, n.
Defn: Distillation. [Obs.]
An exudation or extillation of petrifying juices. Derham.
EXTIMULATE Ex*tim"u*late, v. t. Etym: [L. extimulatus, exstimulatus, p. p. of extimulare, exstimulare, to goad. See Stimulate.]
Defn: To stimulate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
EXTIMULATION
Ex*tim`u*la"tion, n.
Defn: Stimulation. [Obs.]
Things insipid, and without any extimulation. Bacon.
EXTINCT Ex*tinct", a. Etym: [L. extinctus, exstinctus, p. p. of extinguere, exstinguere. See Extinguish.]
1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct. Milton.
2. Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
EXTINCT
Ex*tinct", v. t.
Defn: To cause to be extinct. [Obs.] Shak.
EXTINCTION Ex*tinc"tion, n. Etym: [L. extinctio, exstinction: cf. F. extinction.]
1. The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.
2. State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.
EXTINE Ex"tine (; 104), n. Etym: [L. exter on the outside. Cf. Intine.] (bot.)
Defn: The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.
EXTINGUISH
Ex*tin"guish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extinguished; p pr. & vb. n.
Extinguishing.] Etym: [L. extinguere, exstinguere; ex out + stinguere
to quench. See Distinguish, Finish.]
1. To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right. A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish. Prescott. This extinguishes my right to the reversion. Blackstone.
2. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor. Natural graces that extinguish art. Shak .
EXTINGUISHABLE
Ex*tin"guish*a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed.
EXTINGUISHER
Ex*tin"guish*er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.
EXTINGUISHMENT
Ex*tin"guish*ment, n.
1. The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.
2. (Law)
Defn: The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.
Abbott.
EXTIRP
Ex*tirp" (, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. extirper.]
Defn: To extirpate. [Obs.] It is impossible to extirp it quite, friar. Shak .
EXTIRPABLE
Ex*tir"pa*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant. Evelyn.
EXTIRPATE
Ex"tir*pate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extirpated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Extirpating.] Etym: [L. extirpatus, exstirpatus, p. p. of
extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips stock, stem, root.]
Defn: To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.
Syn. — To eradicate; root out; destroy; exterminate; annihilate; extinguish.
EXTIRPATION Ex`tir*pa"tion, n. Etym: [L. extirpatio, exstirpatio: cf. F. extirpation.]
Defn: The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.
EXTIRPATIVE
Ex"tir*pa*tive, a.
Defn: Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out. Cheyne.
EXTIRPATOR Ex"tir*pa`tor, n. Etym: [L. extirpator, exstirpator: cf. F. extirpateur.]
Defn: One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.
EXTIRPATORY
Ex*tir"pa*to*ry, a.
Defn: Extirpative.
EXTIRPER
Ex*tirp"er, n.
Defn: Extirpator. [Obs.] Bacon.
EXTISPICIOUS Ex`ti*spi"cious, a. Etym: [L. extispicium an inspection of the inwards for divination; extra the entrails + specer to look at.]
Defn: Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication.
[Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
EXTOGENOUS
Ex*tog"e*nous, a. Etym: [L. exter outward + .] (Biol.)
Defn: Exogenous.
EXTOL
Ex*tol", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Extolling.]
Etym: [L. extollere; ex out + tollere to lift, take up, or raise: cf.
OF. extoller. See Tollerate, and cf. Flate.]
1. To place on high; to lift up; to elevate. [Obs.] Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties. Beau.
2. To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person. Wherein have I so deserved of you, That you extol me thus Shak.
Syn.
— To praise; applaud; commend; magnify; celebrate; laud; glorify.
See Praise.
EXTOLLER
Ex*tol"ler, n.
Defn: One who extols; one who praises.
EXTOLMENT
Ex*tol"ment, n.
Defn: Praise. [Obs.] Shak.
EXTORSIVE
Ex*tor"sive, a. Etym: [See Extort.]
Defn: Serving or tending to extort. [R.] Johnson.
— Ex*tor"sive*ly, adv. [R.]
EXTORT
Ex*tort", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Extorting.]
Etym: [L. extortus, p. p. of extorquere to twist or wrench out, to
extort; ex out + torquere to turn about, twist. See Torsion.]
1. To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.
2. (Law)
Defn: To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2.
EXTORT
Ex*tort", v. i.
Defn: To practice extortion. [Obs.] Spenser.
EXTORT
Ex*tort", p. p. & a. Etym: [L. extortus. p. p.]
Defn: Extorted. [Obs.] Spenser.
EXTORTER
Ex*tort"er, n.
Defn: One who practices extortion.
EXTORTION
Ex*tor"tion, n. Etym: [F. extorsion.]
1. The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge.
2. (Law)
Defn: The offense committed by an officer who corruptly claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it is due. Abbott.
3. That which is extorted or exacted by force.
Syn.
— Oppression; rapacity; exaction; overcharge.
EXTORTIONARY
Ex*tor"tion*a*ry, a.
Defn: Extortionate.