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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Ex·cla·ma’tion, n.p. 475The act of exclaiming or making an outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; expression of surprise, pain, anger, or the like. “Exclamations against abuses in the church.”…
  2. Ex-clām'a-tīve, a.p. 475Containing exclamation; exclamatory.
  3. Ex-clām’a-tīve-ly, adv.p. 475With, or by way of, exclamation.
  4. Ex-clăm'a-to-ri-ly, adv.p. 475In an exclamatory manner; with exclamation or outcry; exclamatively.
  5. Ex-clăm'a-to-ry, a.p. 475Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker.
  6. Ex-clūde', v. t.p. 475To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude an immoral man from a…
  7. Ex-clū’sion, n.p. 475The act of excluding, or of thrusting out; ejection; preclusion; exception; rejection; as, the exclusion of a child from the womb. The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland.…
  8. Ex-clū'sion-a-ry, a.p. 475Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.
  9. Ex-clū'sion-er, n.p. 475One who excludes; an exclusionist.
  10. Ex-clū'sion-īsm, n.p. 475The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist; exclusivism.
  11. Ex-clū'sion-ist, n.p. 475One who would exclude another from some privilege.
  12. Ex-clū'sive, a.p. 475Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privileges; exclusive circles of…
  13. Ex-clū'sive, n.p. 475One of a coterie who exclude others; one who chooses for his associates certain persons, to the exclusion of others, or limits his acquaintance to a select few; an exclusionist.
  14. Ex-clū'sive-ly, adv.p. 475In a manner to exclude; as, to enjoy a privilege exclusively.
  15. Ex-clū'sive-ness, n.p. 475The state or quality of being exclusive.
  16. Ex-clū'siv-īsm, n.p. 475Act or practice of excluding, or of being exclusive; exclusiveness.
  17. Ex-clū'so-ry, a.p. 475Able to exclude; exclusive. Blount.
  18. Ex-cōct', v. t.p. 475To boil out; to produce by boiling or heating. [Obs.] Bacon.
  19. Ex-cōc'tion, n.p. 475The act of excocing or boiling out. [Obs.] Bacon.
  20. Ex-cŏg'i-tāte, v. t.p. 475To think out; to discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. “Excogitate strange arts.” Sterling.
  21. Ex-cŏg'i-tā'tion, n.p. 475The act of devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance; discovery.
  22. Ex'com-mūne', v. t.p. 475To exclude from communion with or participation in; to excommunicate. [Obs.] Poets... were excommuned Plato's commonwealth. Gataker.
  23. Ĕx′/eom-mū′ni·ea-ble, a.p. 475Liable or deserving to be excommunicated. Hooker.
  24. Ex'com-mū'ni-cant, n.p. 475One who has been excommunicated.
  25. Ex'com-mū'ni-cāte, v. t.p. 475I. To expel from communion; to eject; especially, to eject from the communion of the church by an ecclesiastical sentence, and to deprive of spiritual advantages; as, to excommunicate notorious…
  26. Ĕx'com-mū'ni-cate, a.p. 475Cut off from communion; excommunicated. Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. Shak.
  27. Ĕx'com-mū'ni-cate, n.p. 475One who has been excommunicated.
  28. Ex'com-mū'ni-cā'tion, n.p. 475(Eccl.) The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially, expulsion from the communion of a church, and deprivation of its rights, privileges, and advantages. Excommunication is of two kinds, the…
  29. Ĕx'com-mu'ni-cā'tor, n.p. 476One who excommunicates.
  30. ĕx'com-mū'ni-ca-to-ry, a.p. 476Pertaining to, causing, or declaring excommunication.
  31. Ex·com·mu'nion, n.p. 476Excommunication. [Obs.] Excommunion is the utmost of spiritual judicature. Milton.
  32. Ex-cō'ri-a-ble, a.p. 476Capable of being excoriated, or stripped or rubbed off. [Obs.] “Such coverings as are excoriable.” Browne.
  33. Ex-cō'ri-āte, v. t.p. 476To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.
  34. Ex-cō/ri-ā'tion, n.p. 476The act of excoriating or flaying, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion. 2. The act of depriving of possessions; spoliation; robbery. [Obs.] A pitiful excoriation of the…
  35. Ex-côr'ti-cāte, v. t.p. 476To strip of bark or skin; to flay; to decorticate. [Obs.] Evelyn.
  36. Ex-côr'ti-ca'tion, n.p. 476The act of stripping off bark; decortication.
  37. Ex’cre-a-ble, a.p. 476Capable of being discharged by spitting. [Obs.] Swift.
  38. Ex'cre-āte, v. t.p. 476To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. [Obs.] Cockeram.
  39. Ex'cre-a'tion, n.p. 476Act of spitting out. [Obs.] Cockeram.
  40. Ex'cre-ment, n.p. 476An excrescence or appendage. [Obs.] “Ornamental excrements.” Fuller. Perhaps so used as if from Lat. excrescere, excretum, to grow out or forth. 2. Matter excreted and ejected; that which is…
  41. Ĕx'cre-mĕnt'al, a.p. 476Pertaining to, or of the nature of, excrement; ejected from the body as useless.
  42. Ex'cre-men-ti'tial, a.p. 476Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; excrementitious.
  43. Ex'cre-men-ti'tious, a.p. 476Pertaining to excrement; containing excrement; consisting of matter evacuated, or proper to be evacuated, from the animal body.
  44. Ex-crĕs'çençe, n.p. 476An excrescent appendage, as a wart or tumor; any thing growing out unnaturally from any thing else; a preternatural or morbid outgrowth; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; an excessive…
  45. Ex-crĕs'çen-çy, n.p. 476Excrescence. [Obs.] Addison.
  46. Ex-crĕs'çent, a.p. 476Growing out in a preternatural or morbid manner; superfluous, as a wart or tumor. Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts. Pope.
  47. Ex-crēte', v. t.p. 476To separate and throw off; to discharge from the body as useless; to eject; as, to excrete urine.
  48. Ex-crē'tion, n.p. 476The act of throwing off effete matter from the animal system. 2. That which is excreted; any thing thrown off from the system; excrement. Bacon.
  49. Ĕx'cre-tive, a.p. 476Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. Harvey.
  50. Ĕx'cre-to-ry, a.p. 476Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
  51. Ĕx'cre-to-ry, n.p. 476(Anat.) A duct or vessel that serves to receive and to excrete matter.
  52. Ex-cru'ci-a-ble, a.p. 476Liable to torment. [Obs.] Bailey.
  53. Ex·cru'ci·āte, v. t.p. 476To inflict most severe pain upon; to torture; to torment; as, to excruciate the heart or the body. Chapman.
  54. Ex-cru'ci-ate, a.p. 476Tormented; tortured. Would she sit thus then excruciate? Beau. & Fl.
  55. Ex-cru'ci-ā'tion, n.p. 476The act of inflicting extreme pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture. Pelham.
  56. Ex'cu-bā'tion, n.p. 476Act of watching all night. [Obs.] Bailey.
  57. Ex-cū'ba-to-ry, n.p. 476(Eccl. Antiq.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night. [Obs.] Ogilvie.
  58. Ex-cūl'pa-ble, a.p. 476Capable of being exculpated; deserving exculpation. Sir C. Buck.
  59. Ex-cūl'pāte, v. t.p. 476To clear from the charge or imputation of fault or guilt; to relieve of blame; to excuse; as, to exculpate one's self from accusation. He exculpated himself from being the author of the heroic…
  60. ĕx'cul-pā'tion, n.p. 476The act of vindicating from a charge of fault or crime; excuse. These robbers were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves. Southey.