Excite – Exist

Excite

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

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

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

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

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

Excited

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

Excitement

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

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

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

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

Exciter

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

1. In medicine, a stimulant.

Exciting

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

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

EXCI'TING, noun Excitation.

Exclaim

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

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

2. To declare with loud vociferation.

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

Exclaimer

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

Exclaiming

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

Exclamation

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

1. Vehement vociferation.

Thus will I drown your exclamations.

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

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

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

Exclamatory

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

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

Exclude

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

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

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

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

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

Excluded

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

Excluding

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

Exclusion

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

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

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

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

4. Exception.

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

Exclusionist

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

Exclusive

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

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

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

Exclusively

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

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

Exclusory

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

Excoct

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

Excogitate

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

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

Excogitation

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

Excommune

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

Excommunicable

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

Excommunicate

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

Excommunicated

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

Excommunicating

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

Excommunication

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

Excoriate

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

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

Excoriated

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

Excoriating

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

Excoriation

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

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

Excortication

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

The act of stripping off bark.

Excreable

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

Excreate

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

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

Excreation

EXCREA'TION, noun A spitting out.

Excrement

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

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

Excremental

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

Excrementitial

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

Excrementitious

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

Excrescence

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

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

2. A preternatural production.

Excrescent

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

Expunge the whole or lop the excrescent parts.

Excrete

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

Excretion

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

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

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

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

Excretive

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

Excretive faculty.

Excretory

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

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

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

Excruciable

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

Excruciatd

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

Excruciate

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

Excruciating

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

1. Extremely painful; distressing; as excruciating fears.

Excubation

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

Exculpate

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

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

Exculpated

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

Exculpating

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

Exculpation

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

Exculpatory

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

Excursion

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

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

She in low numbers short excursions tries.

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

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

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

Excursive

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

Excursively

EXCUR'SIVELY, adverb In a wandering manner.

Excursiveness

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

Excusable

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

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

Excusableness

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

Excusation

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

Excusator

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

Excusatory

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

Excuse

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

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

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

3. To free from an obligation or duty.

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

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

5. To pardon; to admit an apology for.

Excuse some courtly strains.

6. To throw off an imputation by apology.

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

7. To justify; to vindicate.

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

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

1. The act of excusing or apologizing.

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

Excuseless

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

Excuser

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

1. One who excuses or forgives another.

Excusing

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

Excuss

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

Excussion

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

Execrable

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

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

Execrably

EX'ECRABLY, adverb Cursedly; detestably.

Execrate

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

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

Execration

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

Cease, gentle queen, these execrations:

Execratory

EX'ECRATORY, noun A formulary of execration.

Exect

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

Exection

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

Execute

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

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

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

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

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

5. To kill.

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

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

Executed

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

Executer

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

Executing

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

Execution

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. Effect; something done or accomplished.

Every shot did execution

6. Destruction; slaughter.

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

7. Performance, as in music or other art.

Executioner

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

1. He that kills; he that murders.

2. The instrument by which any thing is performed.

Executive

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

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

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

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

Executor

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

Executorial

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

Executorship

EXEC'UTORSHIP, noun The office of an executor.

Executory

EXEC'UTORY, adjective Performing official duties.

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

Executress

EXEC'UTRESS

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

Executrix

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

Exegesis

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

1. Exposition; explanation; interpretation.

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

Exegetical

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

Exegetically

EXEGET'ICALLY, adverb By way of explanation.

Exemplar

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

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

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

Exemplarily

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

She is exemplarily loyal.

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

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

Some he punished exemplarily in this world.

Exemplariness

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

Exemplary

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

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

2. Such as may attract notice and imitation.

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

3. Illustrating.

Exemplification

EXEMPLIFICA'TION, noun [from exemplify.]

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

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

Exemplified

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

Exemplifier

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

Exemplify

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

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

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

3. To prove or show by an attested copy.

Exemplifying

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

Exempt

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

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

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

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

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

2. Free; clear; not included.

3. Cut off from. [Not used.]

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

Exempted

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

Exemptible

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

Exempting

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

Exemption

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

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

Exemptitious

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

Exenterate

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

To take out the bowels or entrails; to embowel.

Exenteration

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

Exequatur

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

Exequial

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

Exequies

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

Funeral rites; the ceremonies of burial; funeral procession.

Exercent

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

Exercisable

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

Exercise

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

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

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

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

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

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

The wise for cure on exercise depend.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Act of divine worship.

11. A lesson or example for practice.

EX'ERCISE, verb transitive [Latin exerceo.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. To use; to employ.

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

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

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

Exercised

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

Exerciser

EX'ERCISER, noun One who exercises.

Exercising

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

Exercitation

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

Exercise; practice; use.

Exergue

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

Exert

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

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

Before the gems exert

Their feeble heads.

[An unusual application.]

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

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

4. To put forth; to do or perform.

When the will has exerted an act of command

on any faculty of the soul.

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

Exerted

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

Exerting

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

Exertion

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

Exesion

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

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

Exestuation

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

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

Exfoliate

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

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

Exfoliated

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

Exfoliating

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

Exfoliation

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

Exfoliative

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

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

Exhalable

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

Exhalation

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

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

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

Exhale

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

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

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

Exhaled

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

Exhalement

EXHA'LEMENT, noun Matter exhaled; vapor.

Exhaling

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

Exhaust

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exhausted

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

Exhauster

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

Exhaustible

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

Exhausting

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

1. Tending to exhaust; as exhausting labor.

Exhaustion

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

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

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

Exhaustless

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

Exhaustment

EXHAUST'MENT, noun Exhaustion; drain.

Exheredate

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

Exheredation

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

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

Exhibit

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exhibited

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

Exhibiter

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

Exhibiting

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

Exhibition

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

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

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

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

4. Payment; recompense.

Exhibitioner

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

Exhibitive

EXHIB'ITIVE, adjective Serving for exhibition; representative.

Exhibitively

EXHIB'ITIVELY, adverb By representation.

Exhibitory

EXHIB'ITORY, adjective Exhibiting; showing; displaying.

Exhilarate

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

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

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

Exhilarated

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

Exhilarating

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

Exhilaration

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

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

Exhort

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

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

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

Young men also exhort to be sober minded.

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

2. To advise; to warn; to caution.

3. To incite or stimulate to exertion.

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

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

Exhortation

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

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

2. Advice; counsel.

Exhortative

EXHORT'ATIVE, adjective Containing exhortation.

Exhortatory

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

Exhorted

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

Exhorter

EXHORT'ER, noun One who exhorts or encourages.

Exhorting

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

Exhumation

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

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

2. The digging up of any thing buried.

Exiccate

EXICCATE, EXICCATION. [See Exsiccate.]

Exiccation

EXICCATE, EXICCATION [See Exsiccate.]

Exigence

EX'IGENCE

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

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

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

Exigency

EX'IGENCY, n. [L. exigens from exigo, to exact; ex and ago, to drive.] 1. Demand; urgency; urgent need or want. We speak of the exigence of the case; the exigence of the times, or of business.2. Pressing necessity; distress; any case which demands immediate action, supply or remedy. A wise man adapts his measures to his exigencies. In the present exigency, no time is to be lost.

Exigent

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

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

2. End; extremity. [Not used.]

Exigenter

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

Exigible

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

Exiguity

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

Exiguous

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

Exile

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exiled

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

Exilement

EX'ILEMENT, noun Banishment.

Exiling

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

Exilition

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

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

Exility

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

Eximious

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

Exinanite

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

Exinanition

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

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

Exist

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

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

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

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