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Eviscerate

EVIS'CERATE, verb transitive [Latin eviscero; e and viscera, the bowels.]

To embowel or disembowel; to take out the entrails; to search the bowels.

Eviscerated

EVIS'CERATED, participle passive Deprived of the bowels.

Eviscerating

EVIS'CERATING, participle present tense Disemboweling.

Evitable

EV'ITABLE, adjective [Latin evitabilis.] See Evitate.] That may be shunned; avoidable. [Little used.]

Evitate

EV'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin evito; e and vito, from the root of void, wide.]

To shun; to avoid; to escape. [Little used.]

Evitation

EVITA'TION, noun An avoiding; a shunning. [Little used.]

Evite

EVI'TE, verb transitive [Latin evito.] To shun. [Not used.]

Evocate

EV'OCATE

EVOCA'TION, noun A calling forth; a calling or bringing from

concealment.

1. A calling from one tribunal to another.

2. Among the Romans, a calling on the gods of a besieged city to forsake it and come over to the besiegers; a religious ceremony of besieging armies.

Evocation

EVOCA'TION, n. A calling forth; a calling or bringing from

concealment. 1. A calling from one tribunal to another.2. Among the Romans, a calling on the gods of a besieged city to forsake it and come over to the besiegers; a religious ceremony of besieging armies.

Evoke

EVO'KE , verb transitive [Latin evoco; e and voco, to call.] To call forth.

Neptune is a deity who evocates things into progression.

1. To call from one tribunal to another; to remove.

The cause was evoked to Rome.

[Evoke is the preferable word.]

Evolation

EVOLA'TION, noun [Latin evolo; e and volo, to fly.]

The act of flying away.

Evolute

EV'OLUTE, noun An original curve from which another curve is described; the origin of the evolent.

Evolution

EVOLU'TION, noun [Latin evolutio.] The act of unfolding or unrolling.

1. A series of things unrolled or unfolded; as the evolution of ages.

2. In geometry, the unfolding or opening of a curve, and making it describe an evolvent. The equable evolution of the periphery of a circle, or other curve, is such a gradual approach of the circumference to rectitude, as that its parts do all concur, and equally evolve or unbend; so that the same line becomes successively a less arc of a reciprocally greater circle, till at last they change into a straight line.

3. In algebra, evolution is the extraction of roots from powers; the reverse of involution.

4. In military tactics, the doubling of ranks or files, wheeling, countermarching or other motion by which the disposition of troops is changed, in order to attack or defend with more advantage, or to occupy a different post.

Evolve

EVOLVE, verb transitive evolv'. [Latin evolvo; e and volvo, to roll; Eng. to wallow.]

1. To unfold; to open and expand.

The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.

2. To throw out; to emit.

EVOLVE, verb intransitive To open itself; to disclose itself.

Evolved

EVOLV'ED, participle passive Unfolded; opened; expanded; emitted.

Evolvent

EVOLV'ENT, noun In geometry, a curve formed by the evolution of another curve; the curve described from the evolute.

Evolving

EVOLV'ING, participle present tense Unfolding; expanding; emitting.

Evomition

EVOMI'TION, noun A vomiting.

Evulgation

EVULGA'TION, noun A divulging. [Not in use.]

Evulsion

EVUL'SION, noun [Latin evulsio, from evello; e and vello, to pluck.]

The act of plucking or pulling out by force.

Ewe

EWE, noun yu. [Latin ovis.] A female sheep; the female of the ovine race of animals.

Ewer

EW'ER, noun yu're. A kind of pitcher with a wide spout, used to bring water for washing the hands.

Ewry

EW'RY, noun yu'ry. [from ever.] In England an office in the king's household, where they take care of the linen for the king's table, lay the cloth, and serve up water in ewers after dinner.

Ex

EX. A Latin preposition or prefix, Gr. signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence in composition, it signifies sometimes out of, as in exhale, exclude; sometimes off, from or out, as in Latin excindo, to cut off or out; sometimes beyond, as in excess, exceed, excel. In some words it is merely emphatical; in others it has little effect on the signification.

Ex-Commissary

EX-COM'MISSARY, noun [ex and commissary.] A commissary dismissed from office; one formerly a commissary.

Ex-Director

EX-DIRECT'OR, noun One who has been a director, but is displaced.

Ex-Legislator

EX-LEG'ISLATOR, noun One who has been a legislator, but is not at present.

Ex-Minister

EX-MIN'ISTER, noun One who has been minister, but is not in office.

Ex-Prefect

EX-PRE'FECT, noun A prefect out of office; one who has been a prefect and is displaced.

Ex-President

EX-PRES'IDENT, noun One who has been president, but is no longer in the office.

Ex-Representative

EX-REPRESENT'ATIVE, noun One who has been formerly a representative, but is no longer one.

Ex-Secretary

EX-SEC'RETARY, noun One who has been secretary, but is no longer in office.

Ex-Senator

EX-SEN'ATOR, noun One who has been a senator, but is no longer one.

Exacerbate

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

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

2. To increase the violence of a disease.

Exacerbation

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

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

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

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

Exacerbescence

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

Exact

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

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

All this, exact to rule, were brought about.

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

We have an exact model for imitation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Duty,

And justice to my father's soul, exact

This cruel piety.

EXACT', verb intransitive To practice extortion.

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

Exacted

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

Exacting

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

Exaction

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

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

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

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

Exactitude

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

Exactly

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

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

2. Precisely according to principle, justice or right.

Exactness

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

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

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

Exactor

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

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

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

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

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

Exactress

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

Exacuate

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

Exaggerate

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

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

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

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

Exaggerated

EXAG'GERATED, participle passive Enlarged beyond the truth.

Exaggerating

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

Exaggeration

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

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

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

Exaggeratory

EXAG'GERATORY, adjective Containing exaggeration.

Exagitate

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

Exalt

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

1. To raise high; to elevate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exaltation

EXALTA'TION, noun The act of raising high.

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

2. Elevated state; state of greatness or dignity.

I wondered at my flight, and change

To this high exaltation

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

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

Exalted

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

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

Exaltedness

EXALT'EDNESS, noun The state of being elevated.

1. Conceited dignity or greatness.

Exalter

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

Exalting

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

Examen

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

Examination; disquisition; enquiry. [Little used.]

Examinable

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

Examinant

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

Examinate

EXAM'INATE, noun The person examined.

Examination

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

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

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

3. Trial by a rule or law.

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

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

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

Examinator

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

Examine

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. To try by a rule or law.

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

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

Examined

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

Examiner

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

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

Examining

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

Examplary

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

Example

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

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

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

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

Example is our preceptor before we can reason.

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. Precedent which disposes to imitation.

Example has more effect than precept.

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

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

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

Exampleless

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

Exampler

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

Exanguious

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

Exanimate

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

Lifeless; spiritless; disheartened; depressed in spirits.

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

Exanimation

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

Exanimous

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

Lifeless; dead. [Little used.]

Exanthema

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

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

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

Exanthematic

EXANTHEMAT'IC

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

Exanthematous

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

Exantlate

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

[Not used.]

Exantlation

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

Exaration

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

Exarch

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

Exarchate

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

Exarticulation

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

Exasperate

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

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

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

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

EX'ASPERATE, adjective Provoked; embittered; inflamed.

Exasperated

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

Exasperater

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

Exasperating

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

Exasperation

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

1. Extreme degree of anger; violent passion.

2. Increase of violence or malignity; exacerbation.

Exauctorate

EXAUC'TORATE

EXAUCTORA'TION

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

To dismiss from service; to deprive of a benefice.

Exauctoration

EXAUCTORA'TION

Exauthorate

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

To dismiss from service; to deprive of a benefice.

Exauthoration

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

Exauthorize

EXAU'THORIZE, verb transitive To deprive of authority.

Excalceated

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

Deprived of shoes; unshod; barefooted.

Excandescence

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

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

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

Excandescent

EXCANDES'CENT, adjective White with heat.

Excantation

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

Disenchantment by a countercharm. [Little used.]

Excarnate

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

To deprive or clear of flesh.

Excarnification

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

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

Excavate

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

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

Excavated

EX'CAVATED, participle passive Hollowed; make hollow.

Excavating

EX'CAVATING, participle present tense Making hollow.

Excavation

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

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

Excavator

EX'CAVATOR, noun One who excavates.

Excecate

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

Excecation

EXCECA'TION, noun The act of making blind.

Excedent

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

Exceed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[This verb is intransitive only by ellipsis.]

Exceedable

EXCEE'DABLE, adjective That may surmount or exceed.

Exceeded

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

Exceeder

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

Exceeding

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

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

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

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

The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea.

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

EXCEE'DING, noun Excess; superfluity.

Exceedingly

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

Isaac trembled exceedingly Genesis 27:33.

Exceedingness

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

Excel

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

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

EXCELling others, these were great;

Thou greater still, must these excel

Many daughters have done virtuously, but

thou excellest them all. Proverbs 31:29.

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

3. To exceed; to surpass.

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

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

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

Excelled

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

Excellence

EX'CELLENCE

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

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

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

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

Excellency

EXCELLENCY, n. [L. excellentia.] The state of possessing food qualities in an unusual or eminent degree; the state of excelling in any thing. 1. An valuabale quality; any thing highly laudable, meritorious or virtuous, in persons, or valuable and esteemed, in things. Purity of heart, uprightness of mind, sincerity, virtue, piety, are excellencies of character; symmetry of parts, strength and beauty are excellencies of body; an accurate knowledge of an art is an excellence in the artisan; soundness and durability are excellencies in timber; fertility, in land; elegance, in writing. In short, whatever contributes to exalt man, or to render him esteemed and happy, or to bless society, is in him an excellence.2. Dignity; high rank in the scale of beings. Angels are beings of more excellence than men; men are beings of more excellence than brutes.3. A title of honor formerly given to kings and emperors, now given to embassadors, governors, and other persons, below the rank of kings, but elevated above the common classes of men.

Excellent

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

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

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

3. Consummate; complete; in an ill sense.

Elizabeth was an excellent hypocrite.

Excellently

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

Except

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

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

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

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

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

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

Excepted

EXCEPT'ED, participle passive [See Except.]

Excepting

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

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

Exception

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

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

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

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

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

Roderigo, thou hast taken against me an exception

But it is more generally followed by at.

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

6. A saving clause in a writing.

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

Exceptionable

EXCEP'TIONABLE, adjective Liable to objection.

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

Exceptious

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

Exceptiousness

EXCEP'TIOUSNESS, noun Disposition to cavil.

Exceptive

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

1. Making or being an exception.

Exceptless

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

Exceptor

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

Excern

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

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

Excerned

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

Excerning

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

Excerp

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

Excerpt

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

Excerption

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

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

Excerptor

EXCERP'TOR, noun A picker; a culler.

Excerpts

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

Excess

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

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

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

3. Super abundance of any thing.

4. Any transgression of due limits.

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

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

Excessive

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

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

Excessive bail shall not be required.

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

3. Vehement; violent; as excessive passion.

Excessively

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

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

Excessiveness

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

Exchange

EXCHANGE, verb transitive

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

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

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

EXCHANGE forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's my exchange

In ordinary business, this is called change.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exchangeability

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

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

Exchangeable

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

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

Bank bills exchangeable for gold or silver.

Exchanged

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

Exchanger

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

Exchanging

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

Exchequer

EXCHEQ'UER, noun exchek'er.

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

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

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

Excisable

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

Excise

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

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

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

Excised

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

Exciseman

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

Excising

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

Excision

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

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

The rabbins reckon three kinds of excision

Excitability

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

Excitable

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

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

Excitant

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

Excitate

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

Excitation

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

Excitative

EXCI'TATIVE, adjective Having power to excite.

Excitatory

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