EXPELLING
EXPEL'LING, participle present tense Driving out; forcing away; compelling to quit or depart; banishing; excluding.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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EXPEND
EXPEND', verb transitive [Latin expendo; ex and pendo, to weigh, from Latin dispendo.]1. To lay out; to disburse; to spend; to deliver or distribute, either in payment or in don...
EXPENDED
EXPEND'ED, participle passive Laid out; spent; disbursed; used; consumed.
EXPENDING
EXPEND'ING, pr. Spending; using; employing; wasting.
EXPENDITURE
EXPEND'ITURE, noun The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. A corrupt administration is known by extravagant expenditures of public money.National income a...
EXPENSE
EXPENSE, noun expens'. [Latin expensum.] A laying out or expending; the disbursing of money, or the employment and consumption, as of time or labor. Great enterprises are accomp...
EXPENSEFUL
EXPENSEFUL, adjective expens'ful. Costly; expensive. [Little used.]
EXPENSELESS
EXPENSELESS, adjective expens'less. Without cost or expense.
EXPENSIVE
EXPENS'IVE, adjective Costly; requiring much expense; as an expensive dress or equipment; an expensive family. Vices are usually more expensive than virtues.1. Given to expense;...
EXPENSIVELY
EXPENS'IVELY, adverb With great expense; at great cost or charge.
EXPENSIVENESS
EXPENS'IVENESS, noun Costliness; the quality of incurring or requiring great expenditures of money. The expensiveness of war is not its greatest evil.1. Addictedness to expense;...
EXPERIENCE
EXPE'RIENCE, noun [Latin experientia, from experior, to try; ex and ant. perior; Gr. to attempt, whence pirate. Eng. to fare.The Latin periculum, Eng. peril, are from the same r...
EXPERIENCED
EXPE'RIENCED, participle passive Tried; used; practiced.1. Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use or observation; as an experie...
EXPERIENCER
EXPE'RIENCER, noun One who makes trials or experiments.
EXPERIENCING
EXPE'RIENCING, participle present tense Making trial; suffering or enjoying.
EXPERIMENT
EXPER'IMENT, noun [Latin experimentum, from experior, as in experience, which see.]A trial; an act or operation designed to discover some unknown truth, principle or effect, or ...
EXPERIMENTAL
EXPERIMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to experiment.1. Known by experiment or trial; derived from experiment. experimental knowledge is the most valuable, because it is most certa...
EXPERIMENTALIST
EXPERIMENT'ALIST, noun One who makes experiments.
EXPERIMENTALLY
EXPERIMENT'ALLY, adverb By experiment; by trial; by operation and observation of results.1. By experience; by suffering or enjoyment. We are all experimentally acquainted with p...
EXPERIMENTER
EXPER'IMENTER, noun One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.
EXPERIMENTING
EXPER'IMENTING, participle present tense Making experiments or trials.
EXPERT
EXPERT', adjective [Latin expertus, from experior, to try. See Experience.]1. Properly, experienced; taught by use, practice or experience; hence, skillful; well instructed; hav...
EXPERTLY
EXPERT'LY, adverb In a skillful or dextrous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.
EXPERTNESS
EXPERT'NESS, noun Skill derived from practice; readiness; dexterity; adroitness; as expertness in musical performance; expertness in war or in seamanship; expertness in reasoning.
EXPETIBLE
EXPE'TIBLE, adjective [Latin expetibilis.] That may be wished for; desirable. [Not used.]
EXPIABLE
EX'PIABLE, adjective [Latin expiabilis. See Expiate.]That may be expiated; that may be atoned for and done away; as an expiable offense; expiable guilt.
EXPIATE
EX'PIATE, verb transitive [Latin expio; ex and pio, to worship, to atone; pius, pious, mild. The primary sense is probably to appease, to pacify, to allay resentment, which is t...