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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Exceed

Ex-ceed′, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [ĭmp. & p. p. EXCEEDED; p. pr. & vb. n. EXCEEDING.] [Lat. excedere, from ex, out, and cedere, to go, to pass; Fr. excéder, Sp. exceder, It. eccedere.]

Sense 1. To pass or go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, or weight; one offender exceeds another in villainy.

Name the time, but let it not exceed three days. Shak.

Sense 2. To surpass; to excel; to transcend.

If thou in strength all mortals dost exceed. Milton.

Ex-ceed′, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To go too far; to pass the proper bounds; to go over any given limit, number, or measure. “In our reverence to whom we can not possibly exceed.” Bp. Taylor. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed. Deut. xxv. 3.

Sense 2. To bear the greater proportion; to be more or larger. Dryden.