| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| examen | adjective | Examination; inquiry. |
| exarch | noun | A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc. |
| excamb | verb t. | Alt. of Excambie |
| excave | verb t. | To excavate. |
| exceed | verb t. | To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; — used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours., To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure., To be more or greater; to be paramount. |
| except | verb t. | To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit., To object to; to protest against., To take exception; to object; — usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony., With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting., Unless; if it be not so that. |
| excern | verb t. | To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. |
| excerp | adjective | To pick out. |
| excess | noun | The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light., An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation., The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other. |
| excide | verb t. | To cut off. |
| excise | noun | In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system., That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes., To lay or impose an excise upon., To impose upon; to overcharge., To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor. |
| excite | verb t. | To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction., To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts. |
| excoct | verb t. | To boil out; to produce by boiling. |
| excuse | verb t. | To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit., To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it., To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon., To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture., To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for., The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation., That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment., That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault. |
| excuss | verb t. | To shake off; to discard., To inspect; to investigate; to decipher., To seize and detain by law, as goods. |
| exedra | noun | A room in a public building, furnished with seats., The projection of any part of a building in a rounded form., Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form. |
| exempt | adjective | Cut off; set apart., Extraordinary; exceptional., Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; — (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service., One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject., One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon., To remove; to set apart., To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain. |
| exequy | noun | A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession. |
| exeunt | They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit. | |
| exaled | imp. & past participle | of Exhale |
| exhale | verb t. | To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia., To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth., To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish. |
| exhort | verb t. | To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution., To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds., Exhortation. |
| exhume | verb t. | To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. |
| exiled | imp. & past participle | of Exile |
| exilic | adjective | Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon. |
| exodic | adjective | Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; — said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic. |
| exodus | noun | A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place., The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt. |
| exogen | noun | A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen. |
| exolve | verb t. | To loose; to pay. |
| exotic | adjective | Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word., Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom. |
| expand | verb t. | To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves., To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; — opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence., To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5., To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. |
| expect | verb t. | To wait for; to await., To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; — often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated., To wait; to stay., Expectation. |
| expede | verb t. | To expedite; to hasten. |
| expend | verb t. | To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations., To be laid out, used, or consumed., To pay out or disburse money. |
| expert | adjective | Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery., An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning., A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition., A sworn appraiser., To experience. |
| expire | verb t. | To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; — opposed to inspire., To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors., To emit; to give out., To bring to a close; to terminate., To emit the breath., To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony., To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday., To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. |
| expiry | noun | Expiration. |
| explat | verb t. | Alt. of Explate |
| expone | verb t. | To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil. |
| export | verb t. | To carry away; to remove., To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; — the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc., The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco., That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; — used chiefly in the plural, exports. |
| expose | verb t. | To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection., To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one’s self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat., To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor., To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite., A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed. |
| expugn | verb t. | To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments. |
| exsect | verb t. | A cutting out or away., The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out. |
| exsert | adjective | Alt. of Exserted |
| extacy | noun | See Ecstasy. |
| extant | adjective | Standing out or above any surface; protruded., Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding., Publicly known; conspicuous. |
| extasy | noun & verb t. | See Ecstasy, n. & v. t. |
| extend | verb t. | To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street., To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them., To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail., To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand., To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering., To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors., To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. |
| extent | adjective | Extended., Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity., Degree; measure; proportion., A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment., A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor. |
| extern | adjective | External; outward; not inherent., A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar., Outward form or part; exterior. |
| extill | verb i. | To drop or distill. |
| extine | noun | The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants. |
| extirp | verb t. | To extirpate. |
| extort | verb t. | To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt., To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2., To practice extortion., Extorted. |
| extra- | A Latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; — often used in composition as a prefix signifying outside of, beyond, besides, or in addition to what is denoted by the word to which it is prefixed. | |
| extras | plural | of Extra |
| exuded | imp. & past participle | of Exude |
| exuvia | n. sing. of Exuviae. |