EXACT
EXACT', adjective egzact'. [Latin exactus, from exigo, to drive; ex and ago. Gr. to drive, urge or press.]1. Closely correct or regular; nice; accurate; conformed to rule; as a ...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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EXACTED
EXACT'ED, participle passive Demanded or required by authority; extorted.
EXACTING
EXACT'ING, participle present tense Demanding and compelling to pay or yield under color of authority; requiring authoritatively; demanding without pity or justice; extorting; c...
EXACTION
EXAC'TION, noun The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; authoritative demand; a levying or drawing from by force; a driving to compliance; as the ex...
EXACTITUDE
EXACT'ITUDE, noun Exactness. [Little used.]
EXACTLY
EXACT'LY, adverb Precisely according to rule or measure; nicely; accurately. A tenon should be exactly fitted to the mortise.1. Precisely according to fact. The story exactly ac...
EXACTNESS
EXACT'NESS, noun Accuracy; nicety; precision; as, to make experiments with exactness1. Regularity; careful conformity to law or rules of propriety; as exactness of deportment.2....
EXACTOR
EXACT'OR, noun One who exacts; an officer who collects tribute, taxes or customs.I will make thine officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. Isaiah 60:17.1. An extortion...
EXACTRESS
EXACT'RESS, noun A female who exacts or is severe in her injunctions.
EXACUATE
EXAC'UATE, verb transitive [Latin exacuo.] To whet or sharpen. [Not in use.]
EXAGGERATE
EXAG'GERATE, verb transitive [Latin exaggero; ex and aggero, to heap, from agger, a heap.]1. To heap on; to accumulate. In this literal sense, it is seldom used; perhaps never.2...
EXAGGERATED
EXAG'GERATED, participle passive Enlarged beyond the truth.
EXAGGERATING
EXAG'GERATING, participle present tense Enlarging or amplifying beyond the truth.
EXAGGERATION
EXAGGERA'TION, noun A heaping together; heap; accumulation.1. In rhetoric, amplification; a representation of things beyond the truth; hyperbolical representation, whether of go...
EXAGGERATORY
EXAG'GERATORY, adjective Containing exaggeration.
EXAGITATE
EXAG'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin exagito.] To shake; to agitate; to reproach. [Little used.]
EXALT
EXALT', verb transitive egzolt'. [Low Latin exalto; ex and altus, high.]1. To raise high; to elevate.2. To elevate in power, wealth, rank or dignity; as, to exalt one to a thron...
EXALTATION
EXALTA'TION, noun The act of raising high.1. Elevation to power, office, rank, dignity or excellence.2. Elevated state; state of greatness or dignity.I wondered at my flight, an...
EXALTED
EXALT'ED, participle passive Raised to a lofty highth; elevated; honored with office or rank; extolled; magnified; refined; dignified; sublime.Time never fails to bring every ex...
EXALTEDNESS
EXALT'EDNESS, noun The state of being elevated.1. Conceited dignity or greatness.
EXALTER
EXALT'ER, noun One who exalts or raises to dignity.
EXALTING
EXALT'ING, participle present tense Elevating; raising to an eminent station; praising; extolling; magnifying; refining.
EXAMEN
EXA'MEN, noun egza'men. [Latin examen the tongue, needle or beam of a balance. It signifies also a swarm of bees.]Examination; disquisition; enquiry. [Little used.]
EXAMINABLE
EXAM'INABLE, adjective [See Examine.] That may be examined; proper for judicial examination or inquiry.
EXAMINANT
EXAM'INANT, noun One who is to be examined. [Not legitimate.]
EXAMINATE
EXAM'INATE, noun The person examined.
EXAMINATION
EXAMINA'TION, noun [Latin examinatio. See Examen.]1. The act of examining; a careful search or inquiry, with a view to discover truth or the real state of things; careful and ac...