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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Ex-hĭb'it-ĭve-ly, adv. p. 478By representation.Ex-hĭb'it-or, n. p. 478One who exhibits; an exhibiter.Ex-hĭb'it-o-ry, a. p. 478Exhibiting; showing. Warton.Ex-hĭl'a-rant, a. p. 478Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure.Ex-hĭl'a-rant, n. p. 478That which exhilarates.Ex-hĭl'a-rāte, v. t. p. 478To make cheerful or merry; to enliven; to make glad or joyous; to gladden; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind.Ex-hil'a-rāte, v. i. p. 478To become cheerful, glad, or joyous. [Rare.] Bacon.Ex-hil'a-rā'ting-ly, adv. p. 478In an exhilarating manner.Ex-hil/a-rā/tion, n. p. 478The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful. 2. The state of being enlivened or cheerful. Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion.…Ex-hôrt′, n. p. 478The act of exhorting; an exhortation. [Obs.] Pope.Ex-hōrt', v. t. p. 478To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or to any laudable conduct or course of action; to stimulate; to urge; to advise, warn, or caution. Examples gross as…Ex-hôrt', v. i. p. 478To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds. And with many other words did he testify and exhort. Acts ii. 40.Ĕx'hor-tā'tion, n. p. 478The act or practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable. 2. Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel. I'll end my…Ex-hôr'ta-tīve, a. p. 478Containing exhortation; exhortatory. Barrow.Ex'hor-tā'tor, n. p. 478One who exhorts or encourages; an exhorter.Ex-hôr'ta-to-ry, a. p. 478Tending to exhort; containing, or serving for, exhortation; hortatory; exhortative.Ex-hôrt'er, n. p. 478One who exhorts or encourages.Ex-hū'mā-ted, a. p. 478Disinterred. [Obs.]Ex'hu-mā'tion, n. p. 478The act of exhuming or digging up that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a corpse.Ex-hūme', v. t. p. 478To dig out of a place of burial; to disinter; to unbury. Mantell.Ex'ic-cāte or Ex-ic'cāte, v. t. p. 478The same as Ex-SICCATE. [Obs.]Ĕx/i-cā'tion, n. p. 478The same as EXSICCATION. [Obs.]Ex'i-gence or Ex'i-gen-cy, n. p. 478The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, the exigence of the times or of business; an unforeseen…Ex'i-gēn'da-ry, n. p. 478Same as EXIGENTER, q. v.Ĕx'i-gent, n. p. 478A state of pressing need; exigency; emergency; extremity. [Obs.] Why do you cross me in this exigent? Shak. 2. (Law.) A judicial writ made use of in the process of outlawry. Burrill.Ex'i-gent, a. p. 478Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing.Ex'i-gēnt'er, n. p. 478(O. Eng. Law.) An officer in the Court of Common Pleas in England, who made out exigents and proclamations in cases of outlawry. The office is now abolished. Cowell.Ĕx'i-gi-ble, a. p. 478Capable of being exacted; demandable; requirable. [Rare.] Bolingbroke.Ĕx/i-gū/ĭ-ty, n. p. 478The state of being small; slenderness. [Rare.] Boyle.Ex-īg'ŭ-ōus, a. p. 478Small; slender; minute; diminutive. [Rare.]Ex-īg'ū-oūs-ness, n. p. 478The state or quality of being exiguous; diminutiveness. [Rare.]Ex'ile (ēks'īl), n. p. 478Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, more loosely, voluntary separation from one's land. Let them be recalled from…Ĕx'ile, v. t. p. 479To banish or expel from one's own country; to drive away; to transport. Call home our exiled friends abroad. Shak.Ex-īle', a. p. 479Small; slender; thin; fine. [Obs.] “An exile sound.” Bacon.Ĕx'īle-ment, n. p. 479State of banishment; exile. Wotton.Ĕx'i-lĭ'tion, n. p. 479A sudden springing or leaping out. [Obs.] Browne.Ex-ĭl'i-ty, n. p. 479Smallness; slenderness; fineness; thinness. [Obs.] Paley.Ex-im'i-ous, a. p. 479Select; choice; and hence, excellent. [Obs.] The eximious and arcane science of physic. Fuller.Ex-in'a-nite, v. t. p. 479To make empty; to weaken. [Obs.] Pearson.Ex-īn'a-nĭ'tion, n. p. 479An emptying or evacuation; hence, privation; loss; destitution. “Fastings to the exinanition of spirits.” Bp. Taylor.Ex'in'tine, n. p. 479(Bot.) A membrane situated between the extine and the intine in the pollen of certain trees, as the yew, cypress, juniper, and the like. Brande.Ex-ist’, v. i. p. 479To be; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. By whom we exist and cease to be. Milton. 2. To occur; to manifest itself; to continue to be;—applied to events and phenomena.…Ex-ist'ence or Ex-ist'en-cy, n. p. 479The state of existing or being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence: temporal existence. 2. Continued or…Ex-ist'ent, a. p. 479Having being, essence, or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.Ĕx'is-tēn'tial, a. p. 479Having existence. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.Ex'is-tēn'tial-ly, adv. p. 479In the manner or by means of existence. [Rare.] Whether God was existentially as well as essentially intelligent. Coleridge.Ex-is'ti-mā'tion, n. p. 479Esteem. [Obs.] Steele.Ex'it, n. p. 479The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part. They have their exits and their entrances. Shak. ☞ The Latin words exit (he or she goes out), and exeunt (they go out), are…Ex-i'tial or Ex-i'tious, a. p. 479Destructive to life; fatal. [Obs.] “This exitial and intolerable accident.” Evelyn.Ex'o-cē'tus or Ex'o-cœ'tus, n. p. 479(Ichth.) A genus of fishes having very long and large pectoral fins, by means of which they are able to fly a considerable distance in the air; the flying fish. [See Illustr. of Flying-fish.]Ex'ōde, n. p. 479The act or process of departure; exodus. [Obs.] Bolingbroke. 2. (Gr. Drama.) The concluding part of a play; the catastrophe. 3. (Rom. Antiq.) An afterpiece of a comic description.Ex-ō'di-ŭm, n. p. 479See EXODE.Ex-ōd'ie, a. p. 479(Physiol.) Conducting influences from the spinal marrow, as the motory nerves.Ĕx'o-dŭs, n. p. 479Departure from a place; particularly, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses. 2. The second book of the Old Testament, which gives a history of the departure of the…Ĕx'o-dy, n. p. 479The act of departure; withdrawal; removal; exodus. [Obs.]Ĕx'-of-fi'cial, a. p. 479Proceeding from office or authority.Ĕx'o-gas-trī'tis, n. p. 479(Med.) An inflammation of the outer coats of the stomach.Ex'o-gen, n. p. 479(Bot.) A plant belonging to one of the great primary classes which includes the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and in which the plants are characterized by having distinct wood, bark, and…Ex-õg'e-noüs, a. p. 479Growing by successive additions to the outside of the wood, between that and the bark, as the maple, the elm, and the like; a new layer of growth being received each year, so that their number, as…Ex'o-lēte', a. p. 479Worn; faded; obsolete; disused. [Obs.] Bailey.