EXCLAIMING
EXCLA'IMING, participle present tense Crying out; vociferating; speaking with heat or passion.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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EXCLAMATION
EXCLAMA'TION, noun Outcry; noisy talk; clamor; as exclamations against abuses in government.1. Vehement vociferation.Thus will I drown your exclamations.2. Emphatical utterance;...
EXCLAMATORY
EXCLAM'ATORY, adjective Using exclamation; as an exclamatory speaker.1. Containing or expressing exclamation; as an exclamatory phrase.
EXCLUDE
EXCLU'DE, verb transitive [Latin excludo; ex and claudo, to shut.] Properly, to thrust out or eject; but used as synonymous with preclude.1. To thrust out; to eject; as, to excl...
EXCLUDED
EXCLU'DED, participle passive Thrust out; shut out; hindered or prohibited from entrance or admission; debarred; not included or comprehended.
EXCLUDING
EXCLU'DING, participle present tense Ejecting; hindering from entering; debarring; not comprehending.
EXCLUSION
EXCLU'SION, noun s as z. The act of excluding, or of thrusting out; ejection; as the exclusion of a fetus.1. The act of denying entrance or admission; a shutting out.2. The act ...
EXCLUSIONIST
EXCLU'SIONIST, noun One who would preclude another from some privilege.
EXCLUSIVE
EXCLU'SIVE, adjective Having the power of preventing entrance; as exclusive bars.1. Debarring from participation; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as an exclusi...
EXCLUSIVELY
EXCLU'SIVELY, adverb Without admission of others to participation; with the exclusion of all others; as, to enjoy a privilege exclusively1. Without comprehension in an account o...
EXCLUSORY
EXCLU'SORY, adjective Exclusive; excluding; able to exclude. [Little used.]
EXCOCT
EXCOCT', verb transitive [Latin excoctus.] To boil. [Not in used.]
EXCOGITATE
EXCOG'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin excogito; ex and cogito, to think.]To invent; to strike out by thinking; to contrive.
EXCOGITATION
EXCOGITA'TION, noun Invention; contrivance; the act of devising in the thoughts.
EXCOMMUNE
EXCOMMU'NE, verb transitive To exclude. [Not used.]
EXCOMMUNICABLE
EXCOMMU'NICABLE, adjective [See Excommunicate.] Liable or deserving to be excommunicated.
EXCOMMUNICATE
EXCOMMU'NICATE, verb transitive [Latin ex and communico.] To expel from communion; to eject from the communion of the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence, and deprive of spiri...
EXCOMMUNICATED
EXCOMMU'NICATED, participle passive Expelled or separated from communion with a church, and a participation of its ordinances, rights and privileges.
EXCOMMUNICATING
EXCOMMU'NICATING, participle present tense Expelling from the communion of a church, and depriving of spiritual advantages, by an ecclesiastical sentence or decree.
EXCOMMUNICATION
EXCOMMUNICA'TION, noun The act of ejecting from a church; expulsion from the communion of a church, and deprivation of its rights, privileges and advantages; an ecclesiastical p...
EXCORIATE
EXCO'RIATE, verb transitive [Low Latin excorio; ex and corium, skin, hide.]To flay; to strip or wear off the skin; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle in any man...
EXCORIATED
EXCO'RIATED, participle passive Flayed; galled; stripped of skin or the cuticle; abraded.
EXCORIATING
EXCO'RIATING, participle present tense Flaying; galling; stripping of the cuticle.
EXCORIATION
EXCORIA'TION, noun The act of flaying, or the operation of wearing off the skin or cuticle; a galling; abrasion; the state of being galled or stripped of skin.1. Plunder; the ac...
EXCORTICATION
EXCORTICA'TION, noun [Latin ex and cortex, bark.]The act of stripping off bark.
EXCREABLE
EX'CREABLE, adjective That may be discharged by spitting. [Little used.]
EXCREATE
EX'CREATE, verb transitive [Latin excreo, exscreo, to hawk and spit.]To hawk and spit; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.