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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-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…Ĕx'pi-ry, n. p. 482Expiration. [Scot.] You have already survived the law which you studied, and its expiry doubtless has not been without a legacy. W. Scott.Ex-písʹcāte, v. t. p. 482To fish out; to ascertain or acquire by artful or underhand means. “To expiscate principles or methods.” [Rare.] Nichol. Expiscating if the renowned extreme They force on us will serve their turn.…Ex'pis-cā'tion, n. p. 482The act of expiscating or fishing out; a fishing. [Obs.] Chapman.Ex-plain', v. t. p. 482To spread out in a flattened form; to make plain or flat. [Obs.] The . . . horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of…Ex-plāin′, v. i. p. 482To give explanations.Ex-plāin'a-ble, a. p. 482Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted. Browne.Ex-plāin'er, n. p. 482One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.Ēx'pla-nate, a. p. 482(Bot.) Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form. Gray. 2. (Entom.) Having the sides of the prothorax so depressed and dilated as to form a broad margin;— said of certain insects. Maunder.Ex'pla-nā'tion, n. p. 482The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That…Ex-plān'a-tive, a. p. 482Explanatory. [R.] Warburton.Ex-plān'a-to-ri-ness, n. p. 482The quality of being explanatory.Ex-plān'a-to-ry, a. p. 482Serving to explain; containing explanation; as, explanatory notes. Swift.Ex-plāt' or Ex-plate', v. t. p. 482To make plain; to explain; to unfold. [Obs.] “Explatest the knotty laws.” B. Jonson.Ex-plē'tion, n. p. 482Accomplishment; fulfillment. [Obs.] Killingbeck.Ex'ple-tive, a. p. 482Filling up: hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. “Expletive phrases to plump his speech.” Barrow.Ĕx'ple-tĭve, n. p. 482A word or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy, or for ornament. Expletives their feeble aid do join. Pope.Ĕx'ple-tĭve-ly, adv. p. 482In the manner of an expletive.Ĕx'ple-to-ry, a. p. 482Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. Burnet.Ĕx'pli-ca-ble, a. p. 482Capable of being explicated, unfolded, or accounted for; admitting explanation. Burke.Ex'pli-ca-ble-ness, n. p. 482The quality of being explicable.Ex'pli-cāte, v. t. p. 482To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] “They explicate the leaves.” Blackmore. 2. To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. The last verse…