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Exponent

EXPO'NENT, noun [Latin exponens; expono, to expose or set forth; ex and pono, to place.]

1. In algebra, the number or figure which, placed above a root at the right hand, denotes how often that root is repeated, or how many multiplications are necessary to produce the power. Thus a[2] denotes the second power of the root a, or aa: a[4] denotes the fourth power. The figure is the exponent or index of the power.

2. The exponent of the ratio or proportion between two numbers or quantities, is the quotient arising when the antecedent is divided by the consequent. Thus six is the exponent of the ratio of thirty to five.

Exponential

EXPONEN'TIAL, adjective exponential curves are such as partake both of the nature of algebraic and transcendental ones. They partake of the former, because they consist of a finite number of terms, though these terms themselves are indeterminate; and they are in some measure transcendental, because they cannot be algebraically constructed.

Export

EXPO'RT, verb transitive [Latin exporto; ex and porto, to carry. Porto seems allied to fero, and Eng. bear.]

To carry out; but appropriately, and perhaps exclusively, to convey or transport, in traffic, produce and goods from one country to another, or from one state or jurisdiction to another, either by water or land. We export wares and merchandize from the United States to Europe. The Northern States export manufactures to South Carolina and Georgia. Goods are exported from Persia to Syria and Egypt on camels.

EX'PORT, noun A commodity actually conveyed from one country or state to another in traffic, or a commodity which may be exported; used chiefly in the plural, exports. We apply the word to goods or produce actually carried abroad, or to such as are usually exported in commerce.

Export-Trade

EX'PORT-TRADE, noun The trade which consists in the exportation of commodities.

Exportable

EXPO'RTABLE, adjective That may be exported.

Exportation

EXPORTA'TION, noun The act of exporting; the act of conveying goods and productions from one country or state to another in the course of commerce. A country is benefited or enriched by the exportation of its surplus productions.

1. The act of carrying out.

Exported

EXPO'RTED, participle passive Carried out of a country or state in traffic.

Exporter

EXPO'RTER, noun The person who exports; the person who ships goods, wares and merchandize of any kind to a foreign country, or who sends them to market in a distant country or state; opposed to importer.

Exporting

EXPO'RTING, participle present tense Conveying to a foreign country or to another state, as goods, produce or manufactures.

Exposal

EXPO'SAL, noun Exposure. [Not in use.]

Expose

EXPO'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin expositum, from expono; ex and pono, to place. The radical sense of pono is to set or place, or rather to throw or thrust down. To expose is to set or throw open, or to thrust forth.]

1. To lay open; to set to public view; to disclose; to uncover or draw from concealment; as, to expose the secret artifices of a court; to expose a plan or design.

2. To make bare; to uncover; to remove from any thing that which guards or protects; as, to expose the head or the breast to the air.

3. To remove from shelter; to place in a situation to be affected or acted on; as, to expose one's self to violent heat.

4. To lay open to attack, by any means; as, to expose an army or garrison.

5. To make liable; to subject; as, to expose one's self to pain, grief or toil; to expose one's self to insult.

6. To put in the power of; as, to expose one's self to the seas.

7. To lay open to censure, ridicule or contempt.

A fool might once himself alone expose

8. To lay open, in almost any manner; as, to expose one's self to examination or scrutiny.

9. To put in danger. The good soldier never shrinks from exposing himself, when duty requires it.

10. To cast out to chance; to place abroad, or in a situation unprotected. Some nations expose their children.

11. To lay open; to make public. Be careful not unnecessarily to expose the faults of a neighbor.

12. To offer; to place in a situation to invite purchasers; as, to expose goods to sale.

13. To offer to inspection; as, to expose paintings in a gallery.

Exposed

EXPO'SED, participle passive Laid open; laid bare; uncovered; unprotected; made liable to attack; offered for sale; disclosed; made public; offered to view.

Exposedness

EXPO'SEDNESS, noun A state of being exposed, open to attack, or unprotected; as an exposedness to sin or temptation.

Exposer

EXPO'SER, noun One who exposes.

Exposing

EXPO'SING, participle present tense Lying or laying open; making bare; putting in danger; disclosing; placing in any situation without protection; offering to inspection or to sale.

Exposition

EXPOSI'TION, noun A laying open; a setting to public view.

1. A situation in which a thing is exposed or laid open, or in which it has an unobstructed view, or in which a free passage to it is open; as, a house has an easterly exposition an exposition to the south or to a southern prospect. The exposition gives a free access to the air or to the sun's rays.

2. Explanation; interpretation; a laying open the sense or meaning of an author or of any passage in a writing.

Expositive

EXPOS'ITIVE, adjective Explanatory; laying open.

Expositor

EXPOS'ITOR, noun [Latin] One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.

1. A dictionary or vocabulary which explains words.

Expository

EXPOS'ITORY, adjective Serving to explain; tending to illustrate.

Ex post facto. [Latin] In law, done after another thing. An estate granted may be made good by matter ex post facto, which was not good at first.

An ex post facto law, in criminal cases, consists in declaring an act penal or criminal, which was innocent when done; or in raising the grade of an offense, making it greater than it was when committed, or increasing the punishment after the commission of the offense; or in altering the rules of evidence, so as to allow different or less evidence to convict the offender, than was required when the offense was committed.

An ex post facto law is one that renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable at the time it was committed.

This definition is distinguished for its comprehensive brevity and precision.

In a free government, no person can be subjected to punishment by an ex post facto law.

Expostulate

EXPOS'TULATE, verb intransitive [Latin expostulo; ex and postulo, to require, probably from the root of posco.]

To reason earnestly with a person, on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to desist, or to make redress; followed by with.

The emperor's embassador expostulated with the king, that he had broken the league with the emperor.

EXPOS'TULATE, verb transitive To discuss; to examine. [Not used.]

Expostulating

EXPOS'TULATING, participle present tense Reasoning or urging arguments against any improper conduct.

Expostulation

EXPOSTULA'TION, noun Reasoning with a person in opposition to his conduct; the act of pressing on a person reasons or arguments against the impropriety of his conduct, and in some cases, demanding redress or urging reformation.

1. In rhetoric, an address containing expostulation

Expostulator

EXPOS'TULATOR, noun One who expostulates.

Expostulatory

EXPOS'TULATORY, adjective Containing expostulation; as an expostulatory address or debate.

Exposure

EXPO'SURE, noun s as z. [from expose.] The act of exposing or laying open.

1. The state of being laid open to view, to danger or to any inconvenience; as exposure to observation; exposure to cold, or to the air; exposure to censure.

2. The situation of a place in regard to points of compass, or to a free access of air or light. We say, a building or a garden or a wall has a northern or a southern exposure We speak of its exposure or exposition to a free current of air, or to the access of light.

Expound

EXPOUND', verb transitive [Latin expono; ex and pono, to set.]

1. To explain; to lay open the meaning; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of scripture; to expound a law.

2. To lay open; to examine; as, to expound the pocket. [Not used.]

Expounded

EXPOUND'ED, participle passive Explained; laid open; interpreted.

Expounder

EXPOUND'ER, noun An explainer; one who interprets or explains the meaning.

Expounding

EXPOUND'ING, participle present tense Explaining; laying open; making clear to the understanding; interpreting.

Express

EXPRESS', verb transitive [Latin expressum, exprimo; ex and premo, to press. See Press.]

1. To press or squeeze out; to force out by pressure; as, to express the juice of grapes or of apples.

2. To utter; to declare in words; to speak. He expressed his ideas or his meaning with precision. His views were expressed in very intelligible terms.

3. To write or engrave; to represent in written words or language. The covenants in the deed are well expressed.

4. To represent; to exhibit by copy or resemblance.

So kids and whelps their sires and dams express

5. To represent or show by imitation or the imitative arts; to form a likeness; as in painting or sculpture.

Each skilful artist shall express thy form.

6. To show or make known; to indicate.

A downcast eye or look may express humility, shame or guilt.

7. To denote; to designate.

Moses and Aaron took these men, who are expressed by their names. Numbers 1:17.

8. To extort; to elicit. [Little used.]

EXPRESS', adjective Plain; clear; expressed; direct not ambiguous. We are informed in express terms or words. The terms of the contract are express

1. Given in direct terms; not implied or left to inference. This is the express covenant or agreement. We have his express consent. We have an express law on the subject. express warranty; express malice.

2. Copied; resembling; bearing an exact representation.

His face express

3. Intended or sent for a particular purpose, or on a particular errand; as, to send a messenger express

EXPRESS', noun A messenger sent on a particular errand or occasion; usually, a courier sent to communicate information of an important event, or to deliver; important dispatches. It is applied also to boats or vessels sent to convey important information.

1. A message sent.

2. A declaration in plain terms. [Not in use.]

Expressed

EXPRESS'ED, participle passive Squeezed or forced out, as juice or liquor; uttered in words; set down in writing or letters; declared; represented; shown.

Expressible

EXPRESS'IBLE, adjective That may be expressed; that may be uttered, declared, shown or represented.

1. That may be squeezed out.

Expressing

EXPRESS'ING, participle present tense Forcing out by pressure; uttering; declaring; showing; representing.

Expression

EXPRES'SION, noun The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure, as juices and oils from plants.

1. The act of uttering, declaring or representing; utterance; declaration; representation; as an expression of the public will.

2. A phrase, or mode of speech; as an old expression; an odd expression

3. In rhetoric, elocution; diction; the peculiar manner of utterance, suited to the subject and sentiment.

No adequate description can be given of the nameless and ever varying shades of expression which real pathos gives to the voice.

4. In painting, a natural and lively representation of the subject; as the expression of the eye, of the countenance, or of a particular action or passion.

5. In music, the tone, grace or modulation of voice or sound suited to any particular subject; that manner which gives life and reality to ideas and sentiments.

6. Theatrical expression is a distinct, sonorous and pleasing pronunciation, accompanied with action suited to the subject.

Expressive

EXPRESS'IVE, adjective Serving to express; serving to utter or represent; followed by of. He sent a letter couched in terms expressive of his gratitude.

Each verse so swells expressive of her woes.

1. Representing with force; emphatical.

These words are very expressive

2. Showing; representing; as an expressive sign.

Expressively

EXPRESS'IVELY, adverb In an expressive manner; clearly; fully; with a clear representation.

Expressiveness

EXPRESS'IVENESS, noun The quality of being expressive; the power of expression or representation by words.

1. The power or force of representation; the quality of presenting a subject strongly to the senses or to the mind; as the expressiveness of the eye, or of the features, or of sounds.

Expressly

EXPRESS'LY, adverb In direct terms; plainly.

Expressure

EXPRESS'URE, noun Expression; utterance; representation; mark; impression. [Little used.]

Exprobrate

EX'PROBRATE, verb transitive [Latin exprobro; ex and probrum, deformity, a shameful act.]

To upbraid; to censure as reproachful; to blame; to condemn.

Exprobration

EXPROBRA'TION, noun The act of charging or censuring reproachfully; reproachful accusation; the act of upbraiding.

No need such boasts, or exprobrations false

Of cowardice.

Exprobrative

EXPROBRA'TIVE, adjective Upbraiding; expressing reproach.

Expropriate

EXPRO'PRIATE, verb transitive [Latin ex and proprius, own.]

To disengage from appropriation; to hold no longer as one's own; to give up a claim to exclusive property.

Expropriation

EXPROPRIA'TION, noun The act of discarding appropriation, or declining to hold as one's own; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property.

Expugn

EXPU'GN, verb transitive expu'ne. [Latin expugno; ex and pugno, to fight.]

To conquer; to take by assault.

Expugnable

EXPU'GNABLE, adjective That may be forced.

Expugnation

EXPUGNA'TION, noun Conquest; the act of taking by assault.

Expugner

EXPU'GNER, noun One who subdues.

Expuition

EXPUI'TION, noun [Latin expuo for exspuo.] A discharge of saliva by spitting.

Expulse

EXPULSE, verb transitive expuls'. [Latin expulsus, expello; ex and pello, to drive.] To drive out; to expel. [Little used.]

Expulsion

EXPUL'SION, noun The act of driving out or expelling; a driving away by violence; as the expulsion of the thirty tyrants from Athens, or of Adam from paradise.

1. The state of being driven out or away.

Expulsive

EXPUL'SIVE, adjective Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.

Expunction

EXPUNC'TION, noun [See Expunge.] The act of expunging; the act of blotting out or erasing.

Expunge

EXPUNGE, verb transitive expunj'. [Latin expungo; ex and pungo, to thrust, to prick.]

1. To blot out, as with a pen; to rub out; to efface, as words; to obliterate. We expunge single words or whole lines or sentences.

2. To efface; to strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expunge an offense.

EXPUNGE the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.

Expunged

EXPUN'GED, participle passive Blotted out; obliterated; destroyed.

Expunging

EXPUN'GING, participle present tense Blotting out; erasing; effacing; destroying.

Expurgate

EX'PURGATE, verb transitive [Latin expurgo; ex and purgo, to cleanse.]

To purge; to cleanse; to purify from any thing noxious, offensive or erroneous.

Expurgated

EX'PURGATED, participle passive Purged; cleansed; purified.

Expurgating

EX'PURGATING, participle present tense Purging; cleansing; purifying.

Expurgation

EXPURGA'TION, noun The act of purging or cleansing; evacuation.

1. A cleansing; purification from any thing noxious, offensive, sinful or erroneous.

Expurgator

EX'PURGATOR, noun One who expurgates or purifies.

Expurgatory

EXPURG'ATORY, adjective Cleansing; purifying; serving to purify from any thing noxious or erroneous; as the expurgatory index of the Romanists, which directs the expunction of passages of authors contrary to their creed or principles.

Expurgatory animadversions.

Expurge

EXPURGE, verb transitive expurj'. [Latin expurgo.] To purge away. [Not in use.]

Exquire

EXQUI'RE, verb transitive [Latin exquiro.] To search into or out. [Not in use.]

Exquisite

EX'QUISITE, adjective s as z. [Latin e xquisitus, from exquiro; ex and quaero, to seek.] Literally, sought out or searched for with care; whence, choice; select. Hence,

1. Nice; exact; very excellent; complete; as a vase of exquisite workmanship.

2. Nice; accurate; capable of nice perception; as exquisite sensibility.

3. Nice; accurate; capable of nice discrimination; as exquisite judgment, taste or discernment.

4. Being in the highest degree; extreme; as, to relish pleasure in an exquisite degree. So we say, exquisite pleasure or pain.

The most exquisite of human satisfactions flows from an approving conscience.

5. Very sensibly felt; as a painful and exquisite impression on the nerves.

Exquisitely

EX'QUISITELY, adverb Nicely; accurately; with great perfection; as a work exquisitely finished; exquisitely written.

1. With keen sensation or with nice perception. We feel pain more exquisitely when nothing diverts our attention from it.

We see more exquisitely with one eye shut.

Exquisiteness

EX'QUISITENESS, noun Nicety; exactness; accuracy; completeness; perfecton; as the exquisiteness of workmanship.

1. Keenness; sharpness; extremity; as the exquisiteness of pain or grief.

Exquisitive

EXQUIS'ITIVE, adjective Curious; eager to discover. [Not in use.]

Exquisitively

EXQUIS'ITIVELY, adverb Curiously; minutely. [Not in use.]

Exsanguious

EXSAN'GUIOUS, adjective [Latin exsanguis; ex and sanguis, blood.]

Destitute of blood, or rather of red blood, as an animal.

Exscind

EXSCIND', verb transitive [Latin exscindo.] To cut off. [Little used.]

Exscribe

EXSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin exscribo.] To copy; to transcribe. [Not in use.]

Exscript

EX'SCRIPT, noun A copy; a transcript. [Not used.]

Exsection

EXSEC'TION, noun [Latin exsectio.] A cutting off, or a cutting out.

Exsert

EXSERT'

EXSERT'ED, adjective [Latin exsero; ex and sero. See Exert.]

Standing out; protruded from the corol; as stamens exsert

A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted.

Exserted

EXSERT'ED, a. [L. exsero; ex and sero. See Exert.]

Standing out; protruded from the corol; as stamens exsert. A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted.

Exsertile

EXSERT'ILE, adjective That may be thrust out or protruded.

Exsiccant

EXSIC'CANT, adjective [See Exsiccate.] Drying; evaporating moisture; having the quality of drying.

Exsiccate

EX'SICCATE, verb transitive [Latin exsicco; ex and sicco, to dry.]

To dry; to exhaust or evaporate moisture.

Exsiccated

EX'SICCATED, participle passive Dried.

Exsiccating

EX'SICCATING, participle present tense Drying; evaporating moisture.

Exsiccation

EXSICCA'TION, noun The act or operation of drying; evaporation of moisture; dryness.

Exspuition

EXSPUI'TION

EXSTIP'ULATE, adjective [Latin ex and stipula, straw.] In botany, having no stipules.

Exstipulate

EXSTIP'ULATE, a. [L. ex and stipula, straw.] In botany, having no stipules.

Exsuccous

EXSUC'COUS, adjective [Latin exsuccus; ex and succus, juice.] Destitute of juice; dry.

Exsuction

EXSUC'TION, noun [Latin exugo, exsugo, to suck out; sugo, to suck.]

The act of sucking out.

Exsudation

EXSUDA'TION, noun [Latin exudo, for exsudo.] A sweating; a discharge of humors or moisture from animal bodies by sweat or extillation through the pores.

1. The discharge of the juices of a plant, moisture from the earth. etc.

Exsude

EXSU'DE, verb transitive [supra.] To discharge the moisture or juices of a living body through the pores; also, to discharge the liquid matter of a plant by incisions.

Our forests exude turpentine in the greatest abundance.

EXSU'DE, verb intransitive To flow from a living body through the pores or by a natural discharge, as juice.

Exsuded

EXSU'DED, participle passive Emitted, as juice.

Exsuding

EXSU'DING, participle present tense Discharging, as juice.

Exsufflation

EXSUFFLA'TION, noun [Latin ex and sufflo, to blow.]

1. A blowing or blast from beneath. [Little used.]

2. A kind of exorcism.

Exsuffolate

EXSUF'FOLATE, adjective Contemptible. [Not in use.]

Exsuscitate

EXSUS'CITATE, verb transitive [Latin exsuscito.] To rouse; to excite. [Not used.]

Exsuscitation

EXSUSCITA'TION, noun A stirring up; a rousing. [Not used.]

Extance

EX'TANCE, noun [Latin estans.] Outward existence. [Not used.]

Extancy

EX'TANCY, noun [Latin exstans, extans, standing out, from exsto; ex and sto, to stand.]

1. The state of rising above others.

2. Parts rising above the rest; opposed to depression. [Little used.]

Extant

EX'TANT, adjective [Latin exstans, extans, supra.] Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums.

A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant

1. In being; not subsisting; not suppressed, destroyed, or lost. A part only of the history of Livy, and of the writings of Cicero, is now extant Socrates wrote much, but none of his writings are extant The extant works of orators and philosophers.

Extasy

EXTASY, EXTATIC. [See Ecstasy, Ecstatic.]

Extatic

EXTASY, EXTATIC [See Ecstasy, Ecstatic.]

Extemporal

EXTEM'PORAL, adjective [Latin extemporalis; ex and tempus, time.] Made or uttered at the moment, without premeditation; as an extemporal discourse.

1. Speaking without premeditation.

Instead of this word, extemporaneous and extemporary are now used.

Extemporally

EXTEM'PORALLY, adverb Without premeditation.

Extemporanean

EXTEMPORA'NEAN, adjective [Not used. See Extemporaneous.]

Extemporaneous

EXTEMPORA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin extemporaneus; ex and tempus, time.]

Composed, performed or uttered at the time the subject occurs, without previous study; unpremeditated; as an extemporaneous address; an extemporaneous production; an extemporaneous prescription.

Extemporaneously

EXTEMPORA'NEOUSLY, adverb Without previous study.

Extemporarily

EXTEM'PORARILY, adverb Without previous study.

Extemporary

EXTEM'PORARY, adjective [Latin ex and temporius, from tempus, time.]

Composed, performed or uttered without previous study or preparation. See Extemporaneous.]

Extempore

EXTEM'PORE, adverb extem'pory. [Latin abl.]

1. Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; suddenly; as, to write or speak extempore

2. It is used as an adjective, improperly, at least without necessity; as an extempore dissertation.

Extemporiizing

EXTEM'PORIIZING, participle present tense Speaking without previous study, or preparation by writing.

The extemporizing faculty is never more out of its element than in the pulpit.

Extemporiness

EXTEM'PORINESS, noun The state of being unpremeditated; the state of being composed, performed or uttered without previous study.

Extemporize

EXTEM'PORIZE, verb intransitive To speak extempore; to speak without previous study or preparation. To extemporize well requires a ready mind well furnished with knowledge.

1. To discourse without notes or written composition.

Extemporizer

EXTEM'PORIZER, noun One who speaks without previous study, or without written composition.

Extend

EXTEND', verb transitive [Latin extendo; ex and tendo, teneo.]

1. To stretch in any direction; to carry forward, or continue in length, as a line; to spread in breadth; to expand or dilate in size. The word is particularly applied to length and breadth. We extend lines in surveying; we extend roads, limits, bounds; we extend metal plates by hammering.

2. To stretch; to reach forth; as, to extend the arm of hand.

3. To spread; to expand; to enlarge; to widen; as, to extend the capacities, or intellectual powers; to extend the sphere of usefulness; to extend commerce.

4. To continue; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment; to extend the season of trial.

5. To communicate; to bestow on; to use or exercise towards.

He hath extended mercy to me before the king. Ezra 7:28.

6. To impart; to yield or give.

I will extend peace to her like a river. Isaiah 66:12.

7. In law, to value lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; or to levy on lands, as an execution.

The execution was delivered to the sheriff, who extended the same on certain real estate.

EXTEND', verb intransitive To stretch; to reach; to be continued in length or breadth. The state of Massachusetts extends west to the border of the state of New York. Connecticut river extends from Canada to the sound. How far will your argument or proposition extend? Let our charities extend to the heathen.

Extended

EXTEND'ED, participle passive Stretched; spread; expanded; enlarged; bestowed on; communicated; valued under a writ of extendi facias; levied.

Extender

EXTEND'ER, noun He or that which extends or stretches.

Extendible

EXTEND'IBLE, adjective Capable of being extended; that may be stretched, extended, enlarged, widened or expanded.

1. That may be taken by a writ of extent and valued.

Extending

EXTEND'ING, participle present tense Stretching; reaching; continuing in length; spreading; enlarging; valuing.

Extendlessness

EXTEND'LESSNESS, noun Unlimited extension. [Not used.]

Extensibility

EXTENS'IBILITY, adjective [from extensible.] The capacity of being extended, or of suffering extension; as the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.

Extensible

EXTENS'IBLE, adjective [from Latin extensus.] That may be extended; capable of being stretched in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement.

Extensibleness

EXTENS'IBLENESS, noun Extensibility, which see.

Extensile

EXTENS'ILE, adjective Capable of being extended.

Extension

EXTEN'SION, noun [Latin extension ] The act of extending; a stretching.

1. The state of being extended; enlargement in breadth, or continuation of length.

2. In philosophy, that property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.

Extensional

EXTEN'SIONAL, adjective Having great extent. [Not used.]

Extensive

EXTENS'IVE, adjective Wide; large; having great enlargement or extent; as an extensive farm; an extensive field; an extensive lake; and extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence.

1. That may be extended. [Not used.]

Extensively

EXTENS'IVELY, adverb Widely; largely; to a great extent; as, a story is extensively circulated.

Extensiveness

EXTENS'IVENESS, noun Wideness; largeness; extent; as the extensiveness of the ocean.

1. Extent; diffusiveness; as the extensiveness of a man's charities or benevolence.

2. Capacity of being extended. [Little used.]

Extensor

EXTENS'OR, noun In anatomy, a muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; opposed to flexor.

Extent

EXTENT', adjective Extended.

EXTENT', noun [Latin extentus. It is frequently accented on the first syllable.]

1. Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, compass; bulk; size; as a great extent of country, or of body.

2. Length; as an extent of line.

3. Communication; distribution.

The extent of equal justice.

4. In law, a writ of execution or extendi facias, commanding a sheriff to value the lands of a debtor; or extent is the act of the sheriff or commissioner in making the valuation.

Extenuate

EXTEN'UATE, verb transitive [Latin extenuo; ex and tenuo, to make thin.]

1. To make thin, lean or slender. Sickness extenuates the body.

2. To lessen; to diminish; as a crime or guilt.

But fortune there extenuates the crime.

3. To lessen in representation; to palliate; opposed to aggravate.

4. To lessen or diminish in honor. [Little used.]

5. To make thin or rare; opposed to condense. [Little used.]

EXTEN'UATE, adjective Thin; slender. [Not used.]

Extenuated

EXTEN'UATED, participle passive Made thin, lean or slender; made smaller; lessened; diminished; palliated; made rare.

Extenuating

EXTEN'UATING, participle present tense Making thin or slender; lessening; diminishing; palliating; making rare.

Extenuation

EXTENUA'TION, noun The act of making thin; the process of growing thin or lean; the losing of flesh.

1. The act representing any thing less wrong, faulty or criminal than it is in fact; palliation; opposed to aggravation; as the extenuation of faults, injuries or crimes.

2. Mitigation; alleviation; as the extenuation of punishment.

[Not common.]

Exterior

EXTE'RIOR, adjective [Latin from exterus, foreign.]

1. External; outward; applied to the outside or outer surface of a body, and opposed to interior. We speak of the exterior and interior surfaces of a concavo-convex lens.

2. External; on the outside, with reference to a person; extrinsic. We speak of an object exterior to a man, as opposed to that which is within or in his mind.

EXTE'RIOR, noun The outward surface; that which is external.

1. Outward or visible deportment; appearance.

Exteriorly

EXTE'RIORLY, adverb Outwardly; externally. [An ill formed word.]

Exteriors

EXTE'RIORS, noun plural The outward parts of a thing.

1. Outward or external deportment, or forms and ceremonies; visible acts; as the exteriors of religion.

Exterminate

EXTERM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin extermino; ex and terminus, limit.]

Literally, to drive from within the limits or borders. Hence,

1. To destroy utterly; to drive away; to extirpate; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe or a nation; to exterminate inhabitants or a race of men.

2. To eradicate; to root out; to extirpate; as, to exterminate error, heresy, infidelity or atheism; to exterminate vice.

3. To root out, as plants; to extirpate; as, to exterminate weeds.

4. In algebra, to take away; as, to exterminate surds or unknown quantities.

Exterminated

EXTERM'INATED, participle passive Utterly driven away or destroyed; eradicated; extirpated.

Exterminating

EXTERM'INATING, participle present tense Driving away or totally destroying; eradicating; extirpating.

Extermination

EXTERMINA'TION, noun The act of exterminating; total expulsion or destruction; eradication; extirpation; excision; as the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

1. In algebra, a taking away.

Exterminator

EXTERM'INATOR, noun He or that which exterminates.

Exterminatory

EXTERM'INATORY, adjective Serving or tending to exterminate.

Extermine

EXTERM'INE, verb transitive To exterminate. [Not used.]

Extern

EXTERN', adjective [Latin externus. External; outward; visible.

1. Without itself; not inherent; not intrinsic. [Little used.]

External

EXTERN'AL, adjective [Latin externus.]

1. Outward; exterior; as the external surface of a body; opposed to internal.

2. Outward; not intrinsic; not being within; as external objects; external causes or effects.

3. Exterior; visible; apparent; as external deportment.

4. Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.

External taxes, are duties or imposts laid on goods imported into a country.

Externality

EXTERNAL'ITY, noun External perception.

Externally

EXTERN'ALLY, adverb Outwardly; on the outside.

1. In appearance; visibly.

Externals

EXTERN'ALS, noun plural The outward parts; exterior form.

Adam was no less glorious in his externals; he had a beautiful body, as well as an immortal soul.

1. Outward rites and ceremonies; visible forms; as the externals of religion.

Exterraneous

EXTERRA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin exterraneus; ex and terra, a land.]

Foreign; belonging to or coming from abroad.

Extersion

EXTER'SION, noun [Latin extersio, from extergeo; ex and tergeo, to wipe.] The act of wiping or rubbing out.

Extill

EXTILL', verb intransitive [Latin extillo; ex and stillo, to drop.]

To drop or distil from.

Extillation

EXTILLA'TION, noun The act of distilling from, or falling from in drops.

Extimulate

EXTIMULATE. [Not in use.] [See Stimulate.]

Extimulation

EXTIMULATION. [See Stimulation.]

Extinct

EXTINCT', adjective [Latin extinctus. See Extinguish.

1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, fire, light or a lamp is extinct

2. Being at an end; having no survivor; as, a family or race is extinct

3. Being at an end; having ceased. The enmity between the families is extinct

My days are extinct Job 17:1.

4. Being at an end, by abolition or disuse; having no force; as, the law is extinct

Extinction

EXTINC'TION, noun [Latin extinctio. See Extinguish.]

1. The act of putting out or destroying light or fire, by quenching, suffocation or otherwise.

2. The state of being extinguished, quenched or suffocated; as the extinction of fire or of a candle.

3. Destruction; excision; as the extinction of nations.

4. Destruction; suppression; a putting an end to; as the extinction of life, or of a family; the extinction of feuds, jealousies or enmity; the extinction of a claim.

Extinguish

EXTIN'GUISH, verb transitive [Latin extinguo; ex and stingo, stinguo, or the latter may be a contraction; Gr. to prick, that is, to thrust; or more directly from tingo, to dip, to stain; both probably allied to tango, for tago, to touch.

1. To put out; to quench; to suffocate; to destroy; as, to extinguish fire or flame.

2. To destroy; to put an end to; as, to extinguish love or hatred in the breast; to extinguish desire or hope; to extinguish a claim or title.

3. To cloud or obscure by superior splendor.

4. To put an end to, by union or consolidation. [See Extinguishment.]

Extinguishable

EXTIN'GUISHABLE, adjective That may be quenched, destroyed or suppressed.

Extinguished

EXTIN'GUISHED, participle passive Put out; quenched; stifled; suppressed; destroyed.

Extinguisher

EXTIN'GUISHER, noun He or that which extinguishes.

1. A hollow conical utensil to be put on a candle to extinguish it.

Extinguishing

EXTIN'GUISHING, participle present tense Putting out; quenching; suppressing; destroying.

Extinguishment

EXTIN'GUISHMENT, noun The act of putting out or quenching; extinction; suppression; destruction; as the extinguishment of fire or flame; of discord, enmity or jealousy; or of love or affection.

1. Abolition; nullification.

Divine laws of christian church policy may not be altered by extinguishment

2. Extinction; a putting an end to, or a coming to an end; termination; as the extinguishment of a race or tribe.

3. The putting an end to a right or estate, by consolidation or union.

If my tenant for life makes a lease to A for life, remainder to B and his heirs, and I release to A; this release operates as an extinguishment of my right to the reversion.

Extirp

EXTIRP', verb transitive To extirpate. [Not used.]

Extirpable

EXTIRP'ABLE, adjective That may be eradicated.

Extirpate

EX'TIRPATE, verb transitive [Latin extirpo; ex and stirps, root.]

1. To pull or pluck up by the roots; to root out; to eradicate; to destroy totally; as, to extirpate weeds or noxious plants from a field.

2. To eradicate; to root out; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate error or heresy; to extirpate a sect.

3. In surgery, to cut out; to cut off; to eat out; to remove; as, to extirpate a wen.

Extirpated

EX'TIRPATED, participle passive Plucked up by the roots; rooted out; eradicated; totally destroyed.

Extirpating

EX'TIRPATING, participle present tense Pulling up or out by the roots; eradicating; totally destroying.

Extirpation

EXTIRPA'TION, noun The act of rooting out; eradication; excision; total destruction; as the extirpation of weeds from land; the extirpation of evil principles from the heart; the extirpation of a race of men; the extirpation of heresy.

Extirpator

EX'TIRPATOR, noun One who roots out; a destroyer.

Extol

EXTOL', verb transitive [Latin extollo; ex and tollo, to raise.]

To raise in words or eulogy; to praise; to exalt in commendation; to magnify. We extol virtues, noble exploits, and heroism. Men are too much disposed to extol the rich and despise the poor.

EXTOL him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah. Psalms 68:4.

Extolled

EXTOL'LED, participle present tense Exalted in commendation; praised; magnified.

Extoller

EXTOL'LER, noun One who praises or magnifies; a praiser or magnifier.

Extolling

EXTOL'LING, participle present tense Praising; exalting by praise or commendation; magnifying.

Extorsive

EXTORS'IVE, adjective [See Extort.] Serving to extort; tending to draw from by compulsion.

Extorsively

EXTORS'IVELY, adverb In an extorsive manner; by extortion.

Extort

EXTORT', verb transitive [Latin extortus, from extorqueo, to wrest from; ex and torqueo, to twist.]

1. To draw from by force or compulsion; to wrest or wring from by physical force, by menace, duress, violence, authority, or by an illegal means. Conquerors extort contributions from the vanquished; tyrannical princes extort money from their subjects; officers often extort illegal fees; confessions of guilt are extorted by the rack. A promise extorted by duress is not binding.

2. To gain by violence or oppression.

EXTORT', verb intransitive To practice extortion.

Extorted

EXTORT'ED, participle passive Drawn from by compulsion; wrested from.

Extorter

EXTORT'ER, noun One who extorts, or practices extortion.

Extorting

EXTORT'ING, participle present tense Wresting from by force or undue exercise of power.

Extortion

EXTOR'TION, noun The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting any thing from a person by force, duress, menaces, authority, or by any undue exercise of power; illegal exaction; illegal compulsion to pay money, or to do some other act. extortion is an offense punishable at common law.

1. Force or illegal compulsion by which any thing is taken from a person.

Extortioner

EXTOR'TIONER, noun One who practices extortion.

Extortioners shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:10.

Extortious

EXTOR'TIOUS, adjective Oppressive; violent; unjust.

Extra

EXTRA, A Latin preposition, denoting beyond or excess; as extra-work, extra-pay, work or pay beyond what is usual or agreed on.

Extra-Dotal

EXTRA-DOTAL, adjective Not belonging to dower paraphernal.

Extract

EXTRACT', verb transitive [Latin extractus, from extraho; ex and traho, to draw.]

1. To draw out; as, to extract a tooth.

2. To draw out, as the juices or essence of a substance, by distillation, solution or other means; as, to extract spirit from the juice of the cane; to extract salts from ashes.

3. To take out; to take from.

Woman is her name, of man

EXTRACTed.

4. To take out or select a part; to take a passage or passages from a book or writing.

I have extracted from the pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.

5. In a general sense, to draw from by any means or operation.

EX'TRACT, noun That which is extracted or drawn from something.

1. In literature, a passage taken from a book or writing.

2. In pharmacy, any thing drawn from a substance, as essences, tinctures, etc.; or a solution of the purer parts of a mixed body inspissated by distillation or evaporation, nearly to the consistence of honey.

Any substance obtained by digesting vegetable substances in water, and evaporating them to a solid consistence.

3. In chimistry, a peculiar principle, supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; called also the extractive principle.

4. Extraction; descent. [Not now used.]

Extracted

EXTRACT'ED, participle passive Drawn or taken out.

Extracting

EXTRACT'ING, participle present tense Drawing or taking out.

Extraction

EXTRAC'TION, noun [Latin extractio.] The act of drawing out; as the extraction of a tooth; the extraction of a bone or an arrow from the body; the extraction of a fetus or child in midwifery.

1. Descent; lineage; birth; derivation of persons from a stock or family. Hence, the stock or family from which one has descended. We say, a man is of a noble extraction

2. In pharmacy, the operation of drawing essences, tinctures, etc. from a substance.

3. In arithmetic and algebra, the extraction of roots is the operation of finding the root of a given number of quantity; also, the method or rule by which the operation is performed.

Extractive

EXTRACT'IVE, adjective That may be extracted.

EXTRACT'IVE, noun The proximate principle of vegetable extracts.

Extractor

EXTRACT'OR, noun In midwifery, a forceps or instrument for extracting children.

Extrafoliaceous

EXTRAFOLIA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin extra, on the outside, and folium, a leaf.]

In botany, growing on the outside of a leaf; as extrafoliaceous stipules.

Extrageneous

EXTRAGE'NEOUS, adjective [Latin extra and genus, kind.] Belonging to another kind.

Extrajudicial

EXTRAJUDI'CIAL, adjective [extra, without, and judicial.]of the proper court, or the ordinary course of legal procedures.

Extrajudicially

EXTRAJUDI'CIALLY, adverb In a manner out of the ordinary course of legal proceedings.

Extralimitary

EXTRALIM'ITARY, adjective [extra and limit.] Being beyond the limit or bounds; as extralimitary land.

Extramission

EXTRAMIS'SION, noun [Latin extra and mitto, to send.]

A sending out; emission.

Extramundane

EXTRAMUN'DANE, adjective [Latin extra and mundus, the world.]

Beyond the limit of the material world.

Extraneous

EXTRA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin extraneus.] Foreign; not belonging to a thing; existing without; not intrinsic; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter.

Relation is not contained in the real existence of things, but is extraneous and superinduced.

Extraneous fossils, organic remains; exuviae of organized beings, imbedded in the strata of the earth.

Extraordinaries

EXTRAOR'DINARIES, noun plural Things which exceed the usual order, kind or method. Rarely used in the singular.

Extraordinarily

EXTRAOR'DINARILY, adverb extror'dinarily. [See Extraordinary.]

In a manner out of the ordinary or usual method; beyond the common course, limits or order; in an uncommon degree; remarkably; particularly; eminently.

The temple of Solomon was extraordinarily magnificent.

Extraordinariness

EXTRAOR'DINARINESS, noun Uncommonness; remarkableness.

Extraordinary

EXTRAOR'DINARY, adjective extror'dinary. [Latin extraordinarius; extra and ordinarius, usual, from ordo, order.]

1. Beyond or out of the common order or method; not in the usual, customary or regular course; not ordinary. extraordinary evils require extraordinary remedies.

2. Exceeding the common degree or measure; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as the extraordinary talents of Shakespeare; the extraordinary powers of Newton; an edifice of extraordinary grandeur.

3. Special; particular; sent for a special purpose, or on a particular occasion; as an extraordinary courier or messenger; an embassador extraordinary; a gazette extraordinary

Extraparochial

EXTRAPARO'CHIAL, adjective [extra and parochial.] Not within the limits of any parish.

Extraprofessional

EXTRAPROFES'SIONAL, adjective [extra and professional.] Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.

Molina was an ecclesiastic, and these studies were extraprofessional