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Existence

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

1. Life; animation.

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

Existent

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

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

Existential

EXISTEN'TIAL, adjective Having existence.

Exit

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

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

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

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

4. A going out; departure.

Exitial

EXI'TIAL

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

Exitious

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

Exode

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

Exodus

EX'ODUS

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

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

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

Exody

EX'ODY, n. [Gr. way.] Departure from a place; particularly, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses. 1. The second book of the Old Testament, which gives a history of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt. Ex officio, [L.] By virtue of office, and without special authority. A justice of the peace may ex officio take sureties of the peace.

Exogloss

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

Exolete

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

Exolution

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

Exolve

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

Exomphalos

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

Exonerate

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

1. To unload; to disburden.

The vessels exonerate themselves into a common duct.

But more generally, in a figurative sense.

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

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

Exonerated

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

Exonerating

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

Exoneration

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

Exonerative

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

Exorable

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

That may be moved or persuaded by entreaty.

Exorbitance

EXORB'ITANCE

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

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

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

Exorbitancy

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

Literally, a going beyond or without the tract or usual limit. Hence, enormity; extravagance; a deviation from rule or the ordinary limits or right or propriety; as the exorbitances of the tongue, or of deportment. The reverence of my presence may be a curb to your exorbitancies.

Exorbitant

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

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

The Jews were inured with causes exorbitant

Exorbitantly

EXORB'ITANTLY, adverb Enormously; excessively.

Exorbitate

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

Exorcise

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

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

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

Exorcised

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

Exorciser

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

Exorcising

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

Exorcism

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

Exorcist

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

Exordial

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

Exordium

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

Exornation

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

Ornament; decoration; embellishment.

Exortive

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

Exossated

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

Exosseous

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

Exoteric

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

Exotery

EX'OTERY, noun What is obvious or common.

Exotic

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

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

1. A word of foreign origin.

Expand

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

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

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

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

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

Expanded

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

Expanding

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

Expanse

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

The smooth expanse of crystal lakes.

Expansibility

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

Expansible

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

Bodies are not expansible in proportion to their weight.

Expansile

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

Expansion

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

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

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

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

Expansive

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

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

2. Widely extended; as expansive benevolence.

Expansiveness

EXPANS'IVENESS, noun The quality of being expansive.

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

Expatiate

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

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

He bids his soul expatiate in the skies.

Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man.

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

Expatiating

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

Expatiator

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

Expatriate

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

In a general sense, to banish.

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

Expatriated

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

Expatriating

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

Expatriation

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

Expect

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

1. To wait for.

The guards,

By me encamp'd on yonder hill, expect

Their motion.

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

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

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

Expectable

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

Expectance

EXPECT'ANCE

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

1. Something expected.

2. Hope; a looking for with pleasure.

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

Expectancy

EXPECT'ANCY, n. The act or state of expecting; expectation. 1. Something expected.2. Hope; a looking for with pleasure. EXPECT'ANCY, n. In law, a state of waiting or suspension. An estate in expectancy is one which is to take effect or commence after the determination of another estate. Estates of this kind are remainders and reversions. A remainder, or estate in remainder, is one which is limited to take effect and be enjoyed after another estate is determined. Thus when a grant of land is made to A for twenty years, and after the determination of that term, to B and his heirs forever; A is tenant for years, remainder to B in fee. In this case, the estate of B is in expectancy, that is, waiting for the determination of the estate for years. A reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of a particular estate granted out by him. As when A leases an estate to B for twenty years; after the determination of that period, the estate reverts to the lessor, but during the term the estate of the lessor is in expectancy.

Expectant

EXPECT'ANT, adjective Waiting; looking for.

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

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

Expectation

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

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

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

2. Prospect of good to come.

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

3. The object of expectation; the expected Messiah.

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

We now more generally say, a youth of promise.

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

Expectative

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

Expecter

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

Expecting

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

Expectorant

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

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

Expectorate

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

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

Expectorated

EXPEC'TORATED, participle passive Discharged from the lungs.

Expectorating

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

Expectoration

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

Expectorative

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

Expediate

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

Expedience

EXPE'DIENCE

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

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

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

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

Expediency

EXPE'DIENCY, n. [See Speed, Expedient and Expedite.] 1. Fitness or suitableness to effect some good end or the purpose intended; propriety under the particular circumstances of a case. The practicability of a measure is often obvious, when the expedience of it is questionable.2. Expedition; adventure. [Not now used.]3. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Not now use.]

Expedient

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

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

2. Useful; profitable.

3. Quick; expeditious. [Not used.]

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

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

Expediently

EXPE'DIENTLY, adverb Fitly; suitably; conveniently.

1. Hastily; quickly.

Expeditate

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

Expeditation

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

Expedite

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

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

2. To dispatch; to send from.

Such charters are expedited of course.

3. To hasten by rendering easy.

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

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

2. Active; nimble; ready; prompt.

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

3. Light-armed. [Not used.]

Expeditely

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

Expedition

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

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

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

Expeditious

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

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

Expeditiously

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

Expeditive

EXPED'ITIVE, adjective Performing with speed.

Expel

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

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

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

3. To eject; to throw out.

4. To banish; to exile.

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

And would you not poor fellowship expel?

6. To exclude; to keep out or off.

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

Expellable

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

Acid expellable by heat.

Expelled

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

Expeller

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

Expelling

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

Expend

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

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

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

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

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

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

Expended

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

Expending

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

Expenditure

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

National income and expenditure

1. Money expended; expense.

The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country.

Expense

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

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

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

Expenseful

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

Expenseless

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

Expensive

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

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

2. Liberal; generous in the distribution of property.

This requires an active, expensive indefatigable goodness.

Expensively

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

Expensiveness

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

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

Experience

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Experienced

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

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

Experiencer

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

Experiencing

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

Experiment

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

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

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

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

1. To try; to search by trial.

2. To experience. [Not used.]

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

Experimental

EXPERIMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to experiment.

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

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

3. Taught by experience; having personal experience.

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

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

Experimentalist

EXPERIMENT'ALIST, noun One who makes experiments.

Experimentally

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

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

Experimenter

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

Experimenting

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

Expert

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

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

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

Expertly

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

Expertness

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

Expetible

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

Expiable

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

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

Expiate

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

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

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

3. To avert the threats of prodigies.

Expiated

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

Expiating

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

Expiation

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

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

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

Expiatory

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

Expilation

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

Expirable

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

Expiration

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

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

2. The last emission of breath; death.

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

4. Matter expired; exhalation; vapor; fume.

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

Expire

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

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

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

3. To conclude.

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

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

With the loss of battle all his hopes of empire expired.

2. To fly out; to be thrown out with force. [Unusual.]

The ponderous ball expires.

3. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to close or conclude, as a given period. A lease will expire on the first of May. The year expires on Monday. The contract will expire at Michaelmas. The days had not expired.

When forty years had expired. Acts 7:30.

Expiring

EXPI'RING, participle present tense Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

1. Pertaining to or uttered at the time of dying; as expiring words; expiring groans.

Explain

EXPLA'IN, verb transitive [Latin explano; ex and planus, plain, open, smooth.]

To make plain, manifest or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to illustrate by discourse, or by notes. The first business of a preacher is to explain his text. Notes and comments are intended to explain the scriptures.

EXPLA'IN, verb intransitive To give explanations.

Explainable

EXPLA'INABLE, adjective That may be cleared of obscurity; capable of being made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.

Explained

EXPLA'INED, participle passive Made clear or obvious to the understanding; cleared of doubt, ambiguity or obscurity; expounded; illustrated.

Explainer

EXPLA'INER, noun One who explains; an expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

Explaining

EXPLA'INING, participle present tense Expounding; illustrating; interpreting; opening to the understanding; clearing of obscurity.

Explanation

EXPLANA'TION, noun [Latin explanatio.] The act of explaining, expounding or interpreting; exposition; illustration; interpretation; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as the explanation of a passage in scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

1. The sense given by an expounder or interpreter.

2. A mutual exposition of terms, meaning or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding and reconcile differences. Hence, reconciliation, agreement or good understanding of parties who have been at variance. The parties have come to an explanation

Explanatory

EXPLAN'ATORY, adjective Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

Expletion

EXPLE'TION, noun [Latin expletio.] Accomplishment; fulfillment. [Little used.]

Expletive

EX'PLETIVE, adjective [Latin expleo, to fill.] Filling; added for supply or ornament.

EX'PLETIVE, noun In language, a word or syllable inserted to fill a vacancy, or for ornament. The Greek language abounds with expletives.

Explicable

EX'PLICABLE, adjective [Latin explicabilis. See Explicate.]

1. Explainable; that may be unfolded to the mind; that may be made intelligible. Many difficulties in old authors are not explicable

2. That may be accounted for. The conduct and measures of the administration are not explicable by the usual rules of judging.

Explicate

EX'PLICATE, verb transitive [Latin explico, to unfold; ex and plico, to fold.

1. To unfold; to expand; to open. 'They explicate the leaves.' [In this sense, the word is not common, and hardly admissible.]

2. To unfold the meaning or sense; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.

The last verse of his last satyr is not yet sufficiently explicated.

Explicated

EX'PLICATED, participle passive Unfolded; explained.

Explicating

EX'PLICATING, participle present tense Unfolding; explaining; interpreting.

Explication

EXPLICA'TION, noun The act of opening or unfolding.

1. The act of explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation; as the explication of the parables of our Savior.

2. The sense given by an expositor or interpreter.

Explicative

EX'PLICATIVE

EX'PLICATOR, noun One who unfolds or explains; an expounder.

Explicator

EX'PLICATOR, n. One who unfolds or explains; an expounder.

Explicatory

EX'PLICATORY, adjective Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding.

Explicit

EXPLIC'IT, adjective [Latin explicitus, part of explico, to unfold.]

1. Literally, unfolded. Hence, plain in language; open to the understanding; clear, not obscure or ambiguous; express, not merely implied. An explicit proposition or declaration is that in which the words, in their common acceptation, express the true meaning of the person who utters them, and in which there is no ambiguity or disguise.

2. Plain; open; clear; unreserved; having no disguised meaning or reservation; applied to persons. He was explicit in his terms.

Explicitly

EXPLIC'ITLY, adverb Plainly; expressly; without duplicity; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication. He explicitly avows his intention.

Explicitness

EXPLIC'ITNESS, noun Plainness of language or expression; clearness; direct expression of ideas or intention, without reserve or ambiguity.

Explode

EXPLO'DE, verb intransitive [Latin explodo; ex and plaudo, to utter a burst of sound, from the root of loud.]

Properly, to burst forth, as sound; to utter a report with sudden violence. Hence, to burst and expand with force and a violent report, as an elastic fluid. We say, gun powder explodes, on the application of fire; a volcano explodes; a meteor explodes.

EXPLO'DE, verb transitive To decry or reject with noise; to express disapprobation of, with noise or marks of contempt; as, to explode a play on the state. Hence,

1. To reject with any marks of disapprobation or disdain; to treat with contempt, and drive from notice; to drive into disrepute; or in general, to condemn; to reject; to cry down. Astrology is now exploded.

2. To drive out with violence and noise. [Little used.]

The kindled powder exploded the ball.

Exploded

EXPLO'DED, participle passive Driven away by hisses or noise; rejected with disapprobation or contempt; condemned; cried down.

Exploder

EXPLO'DER, noun One who explodes; a hisser; one who rejects.

Exploding

EXPLO'DING, participle present tense Bursting and expanding with force and a violent report; rejecting with marks of disapprobation or contempt; rejecting; condemning.

Exploit

EXPLOIT', noun

1. A deed or act; more especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; a great or noble achievement; as the exploits of Alexander, of Caesar, of Washington. [Exploiture, in a like sense, is not in use.]

2. In a ludicrous sense, a great act of wickedness.

EXPLOIT', verb transitive To achieve. [Not in use.]

Explorate

EXPLO'RATE, verb transitive To explore. [Not used. See Explore.]

Exploration

EXPLORA'TION, noun [See Explore.] The act of exploring; close search; strict or careful examination.

Explorator

EXPLORA'TOR, noun One who explores; one who searches or examines closely.

Exploratory

EXPLO'RATORY, adjective Serving to explore; searching; examining.

Explore

EXPLO'RE, verb transitive [Latin exploro; ex and ploro, to cry out, to wail, to bawl. The compound appears to convey a very different sense from the simple verb ploro; but the primary sense is to stretch, strain, drive; applied to the voice, it is to strain or press out sounds or words; applied to the eyes, it is to stretch or reach, as in prying curiosity.]

1. To search for making discovery; to view with care; to examine closely by the eye.

Moses sent spies to explore the land of Canaan.

2. To search by any means; to try; as, to explore the deep by a plummet or lead.

3. To search or pry into; to scrutinize; to inquire with care; to examine closely with a view to discover truth; as, to explore the depths of science.

Explored

EXPLO'RED, participle passive Searched; viewed; examined closely.

Explorement

EXPLO'REMENT, noun Search; trial. [Little used.]

Exploring

EXPLO'RING, participle present tense Searching; viewing; examining with care.

Explosion

EXPLO'SION, noun s as z. [from explode.]

1. A bursting with noise; a bursting or sudden expansion of any elastic fluid, with force and a loud report; as the explosion of powder.

2. The discharge of a piece of ordnance with a loud report.

3. The sudden burst of sound in a volcano, etc.

Explosive

EXPLO'SIVE, adjective Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as the explosive force of gun-powder.

Expoliation

EXPOLIA'TION, noun [Latin expoliatio.] A spoiling; a wasting. [See Spoliation.]

Expolish

EXPOLISH, for polish, a useless word.