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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'pe-dī'tiōus, a. p. 481Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; as, an expeditious messenger or march.…Ex'pe-dī'tioŭs-ly, adv. p. 481With celerity or dispatch; speedily; hastily.Ex'pe-dī'tioŭs-ness, n. p. 481The quality of being expeditious; the quality of being quick or rapid; quickness; expedition.Ex-pēd'i-tive, a. p. 481Performing with speed. [Obs.] Bacon.Ex-pēl', v. t. p. 481To drive or force out from that within which any thing is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as, to expel air from a bellows. 2. To drive away from one's country; to banish. Forewasted all…Ex-pĕl'la-ble, a. p. 481Capable of being expelled or driven out. “Expellable by heat.” Kirwan.Ex-pĕl'ler, n. p. 481One who, or that which, drives out or away.Ex-pĕnd’, v. t. p. 481To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to employ; to dissipate; to waste; as, they expend money for food, drink, and…Ex-pĕnd’, v. i. p. 481To be laid out, used, or consumed.Ex-pĕnd'i-tor, n. p. 481(O. Eng. Law.) One who disbursed or expended moneys collected by tax, particularly for the repair of sewers. Burrill.Ex-pĕnd’i-tūre, n. p. 481The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke. 2. That which is expended; expense. “The receipts and expenditures of this…Ex-pĕnse, n. p. 481The act of expending, laying out, or consuming by using; disbursement; outlay; consumption. 2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; as, the expenses of war. I shall…Ex-pĕnse'ful, a. p. 481Full of expense; costly; expensive. [Obs.] Wotton.Ex-pĕnse'ful-ly, adv. p. 481In a costly manner; with great expense. [Obs.] Weever.Ex-pĕnse'less, a. p. 481Without cost or expense.Ex-pĕn'sĭve, a. p. 481Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke. 2. Free in expending; very…Ex-pĕn'sĭve-ly, adv. p. 481With great expense; at great cost or charge. Swift.Ex-pĕn'sive-ness, n. p. 481The quality of being expensive, or incurring or requiring great expenditures of money; costliness; extravagance; as, the expensiveness of war, or of public works; habits of expensiveness.Ex-pē'ri-ence, n. p. 481Practical acquaintance with any matter by personal observation or trial of it, or by feeling its effects, by living through it, or the like; experimental knowledge; actual trial. On my experience…Ex-pē'ri-ence, v. t. p. 481To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have befall one; as, to experience pain, sorrow, or pleasure; to experience a change of views. 2. To exercise; to…Ex-pĕ'ri-enced, p. a. p. 481Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced artist; an experienced physician. “A junction of the ablest and most…Ex-pē'ri-en-cer, n. p. 481One who makes trials or experiments.Ex-pĕ'ri-ent, a. p. 481Experienced. [Obs.] “The prince now ripe and full experient.” Beau. & Fl.Ex-pē'ri-ēn'tial, a. p. 481Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. It is called empirical or experiential, because it is given to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning.…Ex-pĕr'i-ment, n. p. 481A trial deliberately instituted; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover something unknown, or in order to test, establish, or illustrate some allied or known truth; practical test…Ex-pĕr'i-ment, v. i. p. 481To make an experiment; to operate on a body in such a manner as to discover some unknown fact, or to establish or illustrate a known one; to test by trial.Ex-pĕr'i-ment, v. t. p. 481To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.Ex-pĕr'i-mĕnt'al, a. p. 481Pertaining to experiment; given to, or skilled in, experiment; founded, derived from, or affording experiment or trial; as, experimental knowledge or philosophy; a great experimental philosopher. 2.…Ex-pĕr'i-mĕnt'al-ist, n. p. 481One who makes experiments; an experimenter; an experimentist. Burgess.Ex-pĕr'i-mĕnt'al-ize, v. i. p. 481To make experiments. [Rare.]Ex-pĕr'i-mĕnt'al-ly, adv. p. 481By experiment; by experience or trial.Ex-pĕr'i-men-tā'ri-an, a. p. 481Relying on experiment or experience. [Obs.] “An experimentarian philosopher.” Boyle.Ex-pĕr'i-men-tā'tion, n. p. 481The act of experimenting, or making an experiment. J. S. Mill.Ex-pĕr'i-mĕnt'a-tive, a. p. 481Experimental. [Rare.]Ex-pēr'i-mēnt'er, n. p. 481One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.Ex-pē'ri-mēnt'ist, n. p. 481One who makes experiments; an experimenter; an experimentalist.Ēx'per-rē'ction, n. p. 481A waking up or arousing. [Obs.] Holland.Ex-pērt', a. p. 481Taught by use, practice, or experience; well instructed; having familiar knowledge; having a facility of operation or performance from practice; skillful; as, an expert philosopher; an expert…Ĕx'pert or Ex-pērt', n. p. 481An expert, skillful, or practiced person; one who has skill, experience, or peculiar knowledge on certain subjects of inquiry in science, art, trade, or the like; a scientific or professional witness.Ex-pĕrt', v. t. p. 481To experience. [Obs.] Die would we daily, once it to expert. Spencer.Ex-pĕrt'ly, adv. p. 481In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.Ex-pĕrt'ness, n. p. 481Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in musical performance; expertness in war or in seamanship; expertness in reasoning. Syn.—Facility; readiness; dexterity; adroitness; skill. See…Ex-pĕt'i-ble, a. p. 481Worthy of being wished for; desirable. [Obs.] Fuller.Ex'pi-a-ble, a. p. 481Capable of being expiated, atoned for, or done away; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt. Bp. Hall.Ex'pi-āte, v. t. p. 481To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make satisfaction or reparation for; to atone for; as, to expiate a crime. To expiate his treason, hath naught left. Milton.…Ex/pi·a'tion, n. p. 482The act of making satisfaction for an offense; atonement; satisfaction. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving. 2. The means by which atonement for…Ĕx'pi-a-tist, n. p. 482One who expiates or atones.Ex'pi-ā'tor, n. p. 482One who makes expiation. Craig.Ex'pi-a-to-ry, a. p. 482Having the power to make atonement or expiation; as, an expiatory sacrifice.Ex'pi-lāte, v. t. p. 482To strip off; to pillage; to make plunder. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.Ĕx'pi-lā'tion, n. p. 482The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage; waste. [Obs.] “This ravenous expilation of the state.” Daniel.Ĕx'pi-la'tor, n. p. 482One who pillages. Browne.Ex-pir'a-ble, a. p. 482Liable to expire; capable of being brought to an end.Ex-pir'ant, n. p. 482One who expires or is expiring.Ĕx/pi-rā'tion, n. p. 482The act of expiring; as, (a.) A breathing out or expulsion of air from the lungs through the mouth or nose, in the process of respiration; as, a forcible expiration. “It [air] is sent forth by way of…Ex-pĭ'ra-to-ry, a. p. 482Pertaining to, or employed in, the emission or expiration of breath from the lungs.Ex-pīre', v. t. p. 482To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration;—opposed to inspire. Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and…Ex-pire′, v. i. p. 482To emit the breath, especially, to emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony. 2. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become…Ĕx'pi·rēe', n. p. 482A convict who has served out his time of punishment.Ex-pir'ing, p. a. p. 482Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating. 2. Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring…