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Extraprovincial

EXTRAPROVIN'CIAL, adjective [extra and provincial.] Not within the same province; not within the jurisdiction of the same archbishop.

Extraregular

EXTRAREG'ULAR, adjective [extra and regular.] Not comprehended with a rule or rules.

Extraterritorial

EXTRATERRITO'RIAL, adjective Being beyond or without the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction.

Extraught

EXTRAUGHT, old participle passive of extract.

Extravagance

EXTRAV'AGANCE

EXTRAV'AGANCY, adjective [Latin extra and vagans; vagor, to wander. See Vague.]

1. Literally, a wandering beyond a limit; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course or limit.

2. In writing or discourse, a going beyond the limits of strict truth, or probability; as extravagance of expression or description.

3. Excess of affection, passion or appetite; as extravagance of love, anger, hatred or hunger.

4. Excess in expenditures of property; the expending of money without necessity, or beyond what is reasonable or proper; dissipation.

The income of three dukes was not enough to supply her extravagance

5. In general, any excess or wandering from prescribed limits; irregularity; wildness; as the extravagance of imagination; extravagance of claims or demands.

Extravagancy

EXTRAV'AGANCY, a. [L. extra and vagans; vagor, to wander. See Vague.] 1. Literally, a wandering beyond a limit; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course or limit.2. In writing or discourse, a going beyond the limits of strict truth, or probability; as extravagance of expression or description.3. Excess of affection, passion or appetite; as extravagance of love, anger, hatred or hunger.4. Excess in expenditures of property; the expending of money without necessity, or beyond what is reasonable or proper; dissipation.The income of three dukes was not enough to supply her extravagance.5. In general, any excess or wandering from prescribed limits; irregularity; wildness; as the extravagance of imagination; extravagance of claims or demands.

Extravagant

EXTRAV'AGANT, adjective Literally, wandering beyond limits.

1. Excessive; exceeding due bounds; unreasonable. The wishes, demands, desires and passions of men are often extravagant

2. Irregular; wild; not within ordinary limits of truth or probability, or other usual bounds; as extravagant flights of fancy.

There is something nobly wild and extravagant in great geniuses.

3. Exceeding necessity or propriety; wasteful; prodigal; as extravagant expenses; an extravagant mode of living.

4. Prodigal; profuse in expenses; as an extravagant man.

He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

EXTRAV'AGANT, noun One who is confined to no general rule.

Extravagantly

EXTRAV'AGANTLY, adverb In an extravagant manner; wildly; not within the limits of truth or probability. Men often write and talk extravagantly

1. Unreasonably; excessively. It is prudent not to praise or censure extravagantly

2. In a manner to use property without necessity or propriety, or to no good purpose; expensively, or profusely to an unjustifiable degree; as, to live, eat, drink, or dress extravagantly

Extravagantness

EXTRAV'AGANTNESS, noun Excess; extravagance. [Little used.]

Extravagants

EXTRAV'AGANTS, noun In church history, certain decretal epistles, or constitutions of the popes, which were published after the Clementines, and not at first arranged and digested with the other papal constitutions. They were afterward inserted in the body of the canon law.

Extravagate

EXTRAV'AGATE, verb intransitive To wander beyond the limits. [Not used.]

Extravagation

EXTRAVAGA'TION, noun Excess; a wandering beyond limits.

Extravasated

EXTRAV'ASATED, adjective [Latin extra and vasa, vessels.] Forced or let out of its proper vessels; as extravasated blood.

Extravasation

EXTRAVASA'TION, noun The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; the state of being forced or let out of its containing vessels; effusion; as an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

Extravenate

EXTRAVE'NATE, adjective [Latin extra and vena, vein.]

Let out of the veins.

Extraversion

EXTRAVER'SION, noun [Latin extra and versio, a turning.] The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Little used.]

Extreat

EXTRE'AT, noun Extraction.

Extreme

EXTRE'ME, adjective [Latin extremus, last.] Outermost; utmost; farthest; at the utmost point, edge or border; as the extreme verge or point of a thing.

1. Greatest; most violent; utmost; as extreme pain, grief, or suffering; extreme joy or pleasure.

2. Last; beyond which there is none; as an extreme remedy.

3. Utmost; worst or best that can exist or be supposed; as an extreme case.

4. Most pressing; as extreme necessity.

Extreme unction, among the Romanists, is the anointing of a sick person with oil, when decrepit with age or affected with some mortal disease, and usually just before death. It is applied to the eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth, hands, feet and reins of penitents, and is supposed to represent the grace of God poured into the soul.

Extreme and mean proportion, in geometry, is when a line is so divided, that the whole line is to the greater segment, as the segment is to the less; or when a line is so divided, that the rectangle under the whole line and the lesser segment is equal to the square of the greater segment.

EXTRE'ME, noun The utmost point or verge of a thing; that part which terminates a body; extremity.

1. Utmost point; furthest degree; as the extremes of heat and cold; the extremes of virtue and vice. Avoid extremes. Extremes naturally beget each other.

There is a natural progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny.

2. In logic, the extremes or extreme terms of a syllogism are the predicate and subject. Thus, 'man is an animal: Peter is a man, therefore Peter is an animal; ' the word animal is the greater extreme and man the medium.

3. In mathematics, the extremes are the first and last terms of a proportion; as, when three magnitudes are proportional, the rectangle contained by the extremes is equal contained by the extremes is equal to the square of the mean.

Extremely

EXTRE'MELY, adverb In the utmost degree; to the utmost point. It is extremely hot or cold; it is extremely painful.

1. In familiar language, very much; greatly.

Extremity

EXTREM'ITY, noun [Latin extremitas.] The utmost point or side; the verge; the point or border that terminates a thing; as the extremities of a country.

1. The utmost parts. The extremities of the body, in painting and sculpture, are the head, hands and feet; but in anatomy, the term is applied to the limbs only.

2. The utmost point; the highest or furthest degree; as the extremity of pain or suffering; the extremity of cruelty. Even charity and forbearance may be carried to extremity

3. Extreme or utmost distress, straits or difficulties; as a city besieged and reduced to extremity

4. The utmost rigor or violence. The Greeks have endured oppression in its utmost extremity

5. The most aggravated state.

The world is running after farce, the extremity of bad poetry.

Extricable

EX'TRICABLE, adjective [infra.] That can be extricated.

Extricate

EX'TRICATE, verb transitive [Latin extrico. The primary verb trico is not in the Latin. We probably see its affinities in the Gr. hair, or a bush of hair, from interweaving, entangling. I suspect that three is contracted from this root; three for threg, folded, or a plexus. The same word occurs in intricate and intrigue; Eng. trick.

1. Properly, to disentangle; hence, to free from difficulties or perplexities; to disembarrass; as, to extricate one from complicated business, from troublesome alliances or other connections; to extricate one's self from debt.

2. To set out; to cause to be emitted or evolved.

Extricated

EX'TRICATED, participle passive Disentangled; freed from difficulties and perplexities; disembarrassed; evolved.

Extricating

EX'TRICATING, participle present tense Disentangling; disembarrassing; evolving.

Extrication

EXTRICA'TION, noun The act of disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.

1. The act of sending out or evolving; as the extrication of heat or moisture from a substance.

Extrinsic

EXTRIN'SIC

EXTRIN'SICAL, adjective [Latin extrinsecus.] External; outward; not contained in or belonging to a body. Mere matter cannot move without the impulse of an extrinsic agent. It is opposed to intrinsic.

Extrinsical

EXTRIN'SICAL, a. [L. extrinsecus.] External; outward; not contained in or belonging to a body. Mere matter cannot move without the impulse of an extrinsic agent. It is opposed to intrinsic.

Extrinsically

EXTRIN'SICALLY, adverb From without; externally.

Extruct

EXTRUCT', verb transitive [Latin extruo, extructus.] To build; to construct. [Not in use.]

Extruction

EXTRUC'TION, noun A building. [Not used.]

Extructive

EXTRUCT'IVE, adjective Forming into a structure.

Extructor

EXTRUCT'OR, noun A builder; a fabricator; a contriver. [Not used.]

Extrude

EXTRU'DE, verb transitive [Latin extrudo; ex and trudo, to thrust.

1. To thrust out; to urge, force or press out; to expel; as, to extrude a fetus.

2. To drive away; to drive off.

Extruded

EXTRU'DED, participle passive Thrust out; driven out or away; expelled.

Extruding

EXTRU'DING, participle present tense Thrusting out; driving out; expelling.

Extrusion

EXTRU'SION, noun s as z. The act of thrusting or throwing out; a driving out; expulsion.

Extuberance

EXTU'BERANCE

EXTU'BERANCY, noun [Latin extuberans, extubero; ev and tuber, a puff.]

1. In medicine, a swelling or rising of the flesh; a protuberant part.

2. A knob or swelling part of a body.

Extuberancy

EXTU'BERANCY, n. [L. extuberans, extubero; ev and tuber, a puff.] 1. In medicine, a swelling or rising of the flesh; a protuberant part.2. A knob or swelling part of a body.

Extuberant

EXTU'BERANT, adjective Swelled; standing out.

Extuberate

EXTU'BERATE, verb intransitive [Latin extubero.] To swell. [Not in use.]

Extumescence

EXTUMES'CENCE, noun [Latin extumescens, extumesco; ex and tumesco, tumeo, to swell.] A swelling or rising. [Little used.]

Exuberance

EXU'BERANCE

EXU'BERANCY, noun [Latin exuberans, exubero; ex and ubero, to fatten; uber, a pap or breast, that is, a swelling or mass.]

1. An abundance; an overflowing quantity; richness; as an exuberance of fertility or fancy.

2. Superfluous abundance; luxuriance.

3. Overgrowth; superfluous shoots, as of trees.

Exuberancy

EXU'BERANCY, n. [L. exuberans, exubero; ex and ubero, to fatten; uber, a pap or breast, that is, a swelling or mass.] 1. An abundance; an overflowing quantity; richness; as an exuberance of fertility or fancy.2. Superfluous abundance; luxuriance.3. Overgrowth; superfluous shoots, as of trees.

Exuberant

EXU'BERANT, adjective Abundant; plenteous; rich; as exuberant fertility; exuberant goodness.

1. Over-abundant; superfluous; luxuriant.

2. Pouring forth abundance; producing in plenty; as exuberant spring.

Exuberantly

EXU'BERANTLY, adverb Abundantly; very copiously; in great plenty; to a superfluous degree. The earth has produced exuberantly

Exuberate

EXU'BERATE, verb intransitive [Latin exubero.] To abound; to be in great abundance. [Little used.]

Exudate

EX'UDATE

EXUDA'TION, noun [See Exsudation.]

Exudation

EXUDA'TION, n. [See Exsudation.]

Exude

EXU'DE, verb transitive and i. [See Exsude, the preferable orthography.]

Exuded

EXU'DED, participle passive [See Exsuded.]

Exuding

EXU'DING, participle present tense [See Exsuding.]

Exulcerate

EXUL'CERATE, verb transitive [Latin exulcero; ex and ulcero, to ulcerate, ulcus, an ulcer.]

1. To cause or produce an ulcer or ulcers.

2. To afflict; to corrode; to fret or anger.

EXUL'CERATE, verb intransitive To become an ulcer or ulcerous.

Exulcerated

EXUL'CERATED, participle passive Affected with ulcers; having become ulcerous.

Exulcerating

EXUL'CERATING, participle present tense Producing ulcers on; fretting; becoming ulcerous.

Exulceration

EXULCERA'TION, noun The act of causing ulcers on a body, or the process of becoming ulcerous; the beginning erosion which wears away the substance and forms an ulcer..

1. A fretting; exacerbation; corrosion.

Exulceratory

EXUL'CERATORY, a Having a tendency to form ulcers.

Exult

EXULT', verb intransitive egzult'. [Latin exulto; ex and salto, salio, to leap.]

Properly, to leap for joy; hence, to rejoice in triumph; to rejoice exceedingly, at success or victory; to be glad above measure; to triumph. It is natural to man to exult at the success of his schemes, and to exult over a fallen adversary.

Exultance

EXULT'ANCE

EXULT'ANCY, noun Exultation. [Not used.]

Exultancy

EXULT'ANCY, n. Exultation. [Not used.]

Exultant

EXULT'ANT, adjective Rejoicing triumphantly.

Exultation

EXULTA'TION, noun The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; great gladness; rapturous delight; triumph. exultation usually springs from the gratification of our desire of some good; particularly of distinction or superiority, or of that which confers distinction. It often springs from the gratification of pride or ambition. But exultation may be a lively joy springing from laudable causes.

Exulting

EXULT'ING, participle present tense Rejoicing greatly or in triumph.

Exundate

EXUN'DATE, verb intransitive To overflow. [Not used.]

Exundation

EXUNDA'TION, noun [Latin exundatio, from exundo, to overflow; ex and undo, to rise in waves, unda, a wave.]

An overflowing abundance. [Little used.

Exuperate

EXU'PERATE, verb transitive To excel; to surmount. [Not used, nor its derivatives.]

Exustion

EXUS'TION, noun [Latin exustus.] The act or operation of burning up.

Exuvlae

EXU'VLAE, noun plural [Latin] Cast skins, shells or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of serpents and caterpillars, the shells of lobsters. etc.

1. The spoils or remains of animals found in the earth, supposed to be deposited there at the deluge, or in some great convulsion or change which the earth has undergone, in past periods.

Ey

EY, in old writers, Sax. ig, signifies an isle.

Eyas

EY'AS, noun A young hawk just taken from the nest, not able to prey for itself.

EY'AS, adjective Unfledged. [Not used.]

Eyas-Musket

EY'AS-MUSKET, noun A young unfledged male hawk of the musket kind or sparrow hawk.

Eye

EYE, noun pronounced as I. [Latin oculus, a diminutive. The old English plural was eyen, or eyne.]

1. The organ of sight or vision; properly, the globe or ball movable in the orbit. The eye is nearly of a spherical figure, and composed of coats or tunics. But in the term eye we often or usually include the ball and the parts adjacent.

2. Sight; view; ocular knowledge; as, I have a man now in my eye In this sense, the plural is more generally used.

Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you. Galatians 3:1.

3. Look; countenance.

I'll say yon gray is not the morning's eye

4. Front; face.

Her shall you hear disproved to your eyes.

5. Direct opposition; as, to sail in the wind's eye

6. Aspect; regard; respect; view.

Booksellers mention with respect the authors they have printed, and consequently have an eye to their own advantage.

7. Notice; observation; vigilance; watch.

After this jealousy, he kept a strict eye upon him.

8. View of the mind; opinion formed by observation or contemplation.

It hath, in their eye no great affinity with the form of the church of Rome.

9. Sight; view, either in a literal or figurative sense.

10. Something resembling the eye in form; as the eye of a peacock's feather.

11. A small hole or aperture; a perforation; as the eye of a needle.

12. A small catch for a hook; as we say, hooks and eyes. in nearly the same sense, the word is applied to certain fastenings in the cordage of ships.

13. The bud of a plant; a shoot.

14. A small shade of color. [Little used.]

Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.

15. The power of perception.

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened. Ephesians 1:18.

16. Oversight; inspection.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

The eyes of a ship, are the parts which lie near the hawse-holes, particularly in the lower apartments.

To set the eyes on, is to see; to have a sight of.

To find favor in the eyes, is to be graciously received and treated.

EYE, noun A brood; as an eye of pheasants.

EYE, verb transitive To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention.

EYE nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies.

EYE, verb intransitive To appear; to have an appearance.

Eye-Brightening

EY'E-BRIGHTENING, noun A clearing of the sight.

Eye-Gluttnig

EY'E-GLUTTNIG, noun A feasting of the eyes. [Not in use.]

Eye-Offending

EYE-OFFEND'ING, adjective That hurts the eyes.

Eye-Pleasing

EY'E-PLEASING, adjective Pleasing the eye.

Eye-Salve

EY'E-SALVE, noun Ointment for the eye.

Eye-Servant

EY'E-SERVANT, noun A servant who attends to his duty only when watched, or under the eye of his master or employer.

Eye-Service

EY'E-SERVICE, noun Service performed only under inspection or the eye of an employer.

Not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God. Colossians 3:1.

Eye-Witness

EY'E-WITNESS, noun One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of any thing.

We were eye-witnesses of his majesty. 2 Peter 1:1.

Eyeball

EY'EBALL, noun The ball, globe or apple of the eye.

Eyebeam

EY'EBEAM, noun A glance of the eye.

Eyebolt

EY'EBOLT, noun In ships, a bar or iron or bolt, with an eye, formed to be driven into the deck or sides, for the purpose of hooking tackles to.

Eyebright

EY'EBRIGHT, noun A genus of plants, the Euphrasia, of several species.

Eyebrow

EY'EBROW, noun The brow or hairy arch above the eye.

Eyed

EY'ED, participle passive Viewed; observed; watched.

1. Having eyes; used in composition, as a dull-eyed man, ox-eyed Juno.

Eyedrop

EY'EDROP, noun A tear.

Eyeglance

EY'EGLANCE, noun A glance of the eye; a rapid look.

Eyeglass

EY'EGLASS, noun A glass to assist the sight; spectacles.

In telescopes, the glass next the eye; and where there are several, all except the object glass are called eye-glasses.

Eyelash

EY'ELASH, noun The line of hair that edges the eyelid.

Eyeless

EY'ELESS, adjective Wanting eyes; destitute of sight.

Eyelet

EY'ELET, noun A small hole or perforation, to receive a lace or small rope or cord. We usually say, eyelet-hole.

Eyeliad

EY'ELIAD, noun A glance of the eye.

Eyelid

EY'ELID, noun The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers the eyeball, or uncovers it, at pleasure.

Eyer

EY'ER, noun One who eyes another.

Eyeshot

EY'ESHOT, noun Sight; view; glance of the eye.

Eyesight

EY'ESIGHT, noun The sight of the eye; view; observation. Psalms 18:24.

Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight

1. The sense of seeing. His eyesight fails.

Eyesore

EY'ESORE, noun Something offensive to the eye or sight.

Mordecai was an eyesore to Haman.

Eyesplice

EY'ESPLICE, noun In seaman's language, a sort of eye or circle at the end of a rope.

Eyespotted

EY'ESPOTTED, adjective Marked with spots like eyes.

Eyestone

EYESTONE, noun A small calcarious stone used for taking substance from between the lid and ball of the eye.

Eyestring

EY'ESTRING, noun The tendon by which the eye is moved.

Eyetooth

EY'ETOOTH, noun A tooth under the eye; a pointed tooth in the upper jaw next to the grinders, called also a canine tooth; a fang.

Eyewink

EY'EWINK, noun A wink, or motion of the eyelid; a hint or token.

Eyot

EY'OT, noun A little isle.

Eyre

EYRE, noun ire. [Latin iter.] Literally, a journey or circuit. In England, the justices in eyre were itinerant judges, who rode the circuit to hold courts in the different counties.

1. A court of itinerant justices.

Eyry

EY'RY, noun The place where birds of prey construct their nests and hatch. It is written also eyrie. [See Aerie.]

The eagle and the stork

On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build.