Exile (3)
Ex‐ile″ (?), a. [L. exilis.] Small; slender; thin; fine. “An exile sound.” Bacon.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Exilement
Ex″ile‐ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. exilement.] Banishment. Sir. H. Wotton.
Exilic
Ex‐il″ic (?), a. Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon. Encyc. Dict.
Exilition
Ex′i‐li″tion (?), n. [L. exsilire to spring from; ex out + salire to spring, leap.] A sudden springing or leaping out. Sir T. Browne.
Exility
Ex‐il″ity (?), n. [L. exilitas: cf. F. exilité. See Exile, a.] Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness. Paley.
Eximious
Ex‐im″ious (?) a. [L. eximius taken out, i.e. select, fr. eximere to take out. See Exempt.] Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent.The eximious and arcane science of ph...
Exinanite
Ex‐in″a‐nite (?), v. t. [L. exinanitus, p. p. of exinanire; ex out (intens.) + inanire to make empty, inanis, empty.] To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble. Bp. Pearson.
Exinanition
Ex‐in′a‐ni″tion (?) n. [L. exinanitio.] An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.Fastings to the exinanition of spirits. Jer. Taylor.
Exist
Ex‐ist″ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Existed; p. pr. & vb. n.Existing.] [L. existere, exsistere, to step out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to s...
Existence
Ex‐ist″ence (?), n. [Cf. F. existence.] 1. The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the ...
Existency
Ex‐ist″en‐cy (?), n. Existence. Sir M. Hale.
Existent
Ex‐ist″ent (?), a. [L. existens, -entis, p. pr. of existere. See Exist.] Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.The eyes and mind are fastened o...
Existential
Ex′is‐ten″tial (?), a. Having existence. Bp. Barlow. —Ex′is‐ten″tial‐ly, adv.Existentially as well as essentially intelligent. Colerige.
Exister
Ex‐ist″er (?), n. One who exists.
Existible
Ex‐ist″i‐ble (?), a. Capable of existence. Grew.
Existimation
Ex‐is′ti‐ma″tion (?), n. [L. existimatio judgment, opinion, fr. existimare to estimate. See Estimate.] Esteem; opinion; reputation. Steele.
Exit
‖Ex″it (?). [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of exire to go out. See Exeunt, Issue.] He (or she) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.☞ The Latin words exit (he or she goes...
Exit (2)
Ex″it, n. [See 1st Exit.] 1. The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.They have their exits and their entrances. Shak.2. Any departure; the act o...
Exitial
{ Ex‐i″tial (?), Ex‐i″tious (?), } a. [L. exitialis, exitious, fr. exitium a going out, a going to naught, i.e., ruin, fr. exire to go out: cf. F. exitial.] Destructive; fatal. ...
Exmoor
Ex″moor (?), n. [From Exmoor, a district in Somersetshire and Devonshire.] 1. One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostril...
Exo-
Ex″o– (?). [Gr. � out of, outside, fr. � out. See Ex-.] A prefix signifying out of, outside; as in exocarp, exogen, exoskeleton.
Exocardiac
{ Ex′o‐car″di‐ac (?), Ex′o‐car″di‐al (?), } a. [Exo- + Gr. καρδία heart.] (Anat.) Situated or arising outside of the heart; as, exocardial murmurs; — opposed to endocardiac.
Exocarp
Ex″o‐carp (?), n. [Exo- + Gr. � fruit.] (Bot.) The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.
Exoccipital
Ex′oc‐cip″i‐tal (?), a. [Pref. ex- + occipital.] (Anat.) Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull. — n. The exoccipital bone, which often fo...
Exocetus
‖Ex′o‐ce″tus (? or?), ‖Ex′ocœ″tus, n. [NL. exocetus, L. exocoetus a fish that sleeps on the shore, Gr. εξὤκοιτοσ, lit., sleeping out; ἔξω outside of + κοίτη bed.] (Zoöl) A genus...
Exoculate
Ex‐oc″u‐late (?), v. t. [L. exoculatus, p. p. of exoculare to exoculate; ex out + oculus an eye.] To deprive of eyes. W. C. Hazlitt.
Exode
Ex″ode (?) n. [L. exodium, Gr. � (sc. � song) fr. � belonging to an exit, or to the finale of a tragedy, fr. �: cf. F. exode. See Exodus.] 1. Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus...