Webster's Dictionary 1913

4051

Excerpt (2)

Ex‐cerp″t (277), n. An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

4052

Excerption

‖Ex‐cerp″tion (?), n. [L. excerptio.] 1. The act of excerpting or selecting.2. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.His excerptions out of the Fathers. Fuller.

4053

Excerptive

Ex‐cerp″tive (?), a. That excerpts, selects, or chooses. D. L. Mackenzie.

4054

Excerptor

Ex‐cerp″tor (?), n. One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.

4055

Excess

Ex‐cess″ (?), n. [OE. exces, excess, ecstasy, L. excessus a going out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go beyond: cf. F. excès. See Exceed.] 1. The s...

4056

Excessive

Ex‐cess″ive (ĕk‐sĕs″ĭv), a. [Cf. F. excessif.] Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak.Syn. — Undue; exorbitant; extreme;...

4057

Exchange

Ex‐change″ (ĕks‐chānj″), n. [OE. eschange, eschaunge, OF. eschange, fr. eschangier, F. échanger, to exchange; pref. ex- out + F. changer. See Change, and cf. Excamb.] 1. The act...

4058

Exchange (2)

Ex‐change″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Exchanged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Exchanging (?).] [Cf.OF. eschangier, F. échanger. See Exchange, n.] 1. To part with give, or transfer to another in ...

4059

Exchange (3)

Ex‐change″, v. i. To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.

4060

Exchange editor

Ex‐change″ ed″i‐tor. An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.

4061

Exchangeability

Ex‐change′a‐bil″i‐ty (?), n. The quality or state of being exchangeable.The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Was...

4062

Exchangeable

Ex‐change″a‐ble (?), a. [Cf.F. échangeable.] 1. Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers...

4063

Exchangeably

Ex‐change″a‐bly, adv. By way of exchange.

4064

Exchanger

Ex‐chan″ger (?), n. One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. Matt. xxv. 27.

4065

Excheat

Ex‐cheat″ (?), n. See Escheat. Spenser.

4066

Excheator

Ex‐cheat″or (?), n. See Escheator.

4067

Exchequer

Ex‐cheq″uer (?), n. [OE. escheker, OF. eichekier, fr. LL. scaccarium. See Checker, Chess, Check.] 1. One of the superior courts of law; — so called from a checkered cloth, which...

4068

Exchequer (2)

Ex‐cheq″uer (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Exchequered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Exchequering.] To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.

4069

Excide

Ex‐cide″ (?), v. t. [L. excidere, excisum; ex out + caedere to cut. See Concise, and cf. Excise to cut off.] To cut off.

4070

Excipient

Ex‐cip″i‐ent (?), a. [L. excipients, -entis, p. pr. of exipere. See Except, v. t.] Taking an exception.

4071

Excipient (2)

Ex‐cip″i‐ent, n. 1. An exceptor.2. (Med.) An inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents. Cha...

4072

Exciple

{ Ex″ci‐ple (?), ‖Ex‐cip″u‐lum (?), } n. [NL. excipulum, fr. L. excipere. See Except.] (Bot.) The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.

4073

Excisable

Ex‐cis″a‐ble (?), a. Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity.

4074

Excise

Ex‐cise″ (?), n. [Apparently fr. L. excisum cut off, fr. excidere to cut out or off; ex out, off + caedere to cut; or, as the word was formerly written accise, fr. F. accise, LL...

4075

Excise (2)

Ex‐cise″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Excised (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Excising.] 1. To lay or impose an excise upon.2. To impose upon; to overcharge.

4076

Excise (3)

Ex‐cise″, v. t. [See Excide.] To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

4077

Exciseman

Ex‐cise″man (?), n.; pl.Excisemen (�). An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty. Macaulay.