EXCELLED
EXCEL'LED, participle passive Surpassed; outdone; exceeded in good qualities or laudable achievements.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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EXCELLENCE
EX'CELLENCEEXCELLENCY, noun [Latin excellentia.] The state of possessing food qualities in an unusual or eminent degree; the state of excelling in any thing.1. An valuabale qual...
EXCELLENCY
EXCELLENCY, n. [L. excellentia.] The state of possessing food qualities in an unusual or eminent degree; the state of excelling in any thing.1. An valuabale quality; any thing h...
EXCELLENT
EX'CELLENT, adjective Being of great virtue or worth; eminent or distinguished for what is amiable, valuable or laudable; as an excellent man or citizen; an excellent judge or m...
EXCELLENTLY
EX'CELLENTLY, adverb In an excellent manner; well in a high degree; in an eminent degree; in a manner to please or command esteem, or to be useful.
EXCEPT
EXCEPT', verb transitive [Latin excipio; ex and capio, to take. See Caption, Capture.]1. To take or leave out of any number specified; to exclude; as, of the thirty persons pres...
EXCEPTED
EXCEPT'ED, participle passive [See Except.]
EXCEPTING
EXCEPT'ING, participle present tense Taking or leaving out; excluding.1. This word is also used in the sense of except, as above explained. The prisoners were all condemned, exc...
EXCEPTION
EXCEP'TION, noun The act of excepting, or excluding from a number designated, or from a description; exclusion. All the representatives voted for the bill, with the exception of...
EXCEPTIONABLE
EXCEP'TIONABLE, adjective Liable to objection.This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem.
EXCEPTIOUS
EXCEP'TIOUS, adjective Peevish; disposed or apt to cavil, or take exceptions. [Little used.]
EXCEPTIOUSNESS
EXCEP'TIOUSNESS, noun Disposition to cavil.
EXCEPTIVE
EXCEPT'IVE, adjective Including an exception; as an exceptive preposition.1. Making or being an exception.
EXCEPTLESS
EXCEPT'LESS, adjective Omitting all exception. [Not in use.]
EXCEPTOR
EXCEPT'OR, noun One who objects, or makes exceptions.
EXCERN
EXCERN', verb transitive [Latin excerno; ex and cerno; Gr. to separate.]To separate and emit through the pores, or through small passages of the body; to strain out; to excrete;...
EXCERNED
EXCERN'ED, participle passive Separated; excreted; emitted through the capillary vessels of the body.
EXCERNING
EXCERN'ING, participle present tense Emitting through the small passages; excreting.
EXCERP
EXCERP', verb transitive [Latin excerpo.] To pick out. [Little used.]
EXCERPT
EXCERPT', verb transitive [Latin excerpo; ex and carpo, to take.] To select. [Not used.]
EXCERPTION
EXCERP'TION, noun [Latin excerptio.] A picking out; a gleaning; selection. [Little used.]1. That which is selected or gleaned. [Little used.]
EXCERPTOR
EXCERP'TOR, noun A picker; a culler.
EXCERPTS
EXCERPTS', noun Extracts from authors. [A bad word.]
EXCESS
EXCESS', noun [Latin excessus, from excedo. See Exceed.]1. Literally, that which exceeds any measure or limit, or which exceeds something else, or a going beyond a just line or ...
EXCESSIVE
EXCESS'IVE, adjective Beyond any given degree, measure or limit, or beyond the common measure or proportion; as the excessive bulk of a man; excessive labor; excessive wages.1. ...
EXCESSIVELY
EXCESS'IVELY, adverb In an extreme degree; beyond measure; exceedingly; as excessively impatient; excessively grieved.1. Vehemently; violently; as, the wind blew excessively
EXCESSIVENESS
EXCESS'IVENESS, noun The state or quality of being excessive; excess.