EXICCATE
EXICCATE, EXICCATION. [See Exsiccate.]
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EXICCATION
EXICCATE, EXICCATION [See Exsiccate.]
EXIGENCE
EX'IGENCEEX'IGENCY, noun [Latin exigens from exigo, to exact; ex and ago, to drive.]1. Demand; urgency; urgent need or want. We speak of the exigence of the case; the exigence o...
EXIGENCY
EX'IGENCY, n. [L. exigens from exigo, to exact; ex and ago, to drive.]1. Demand; urgency; urgent need or want. We speak of the exigence of the case; the exigence of the times, o...
EXIGENT
EXI'GENT, noun Pressing business; occasion that calls for immediate help. [Not used.] See Exigence.]1. In law, a writ which lies where the defendant is not to be found, or after...
EXIGENTER
EX'IGENTER, noun An officer in the court of Common Pleas in England who makes out exigents and proclamations, in cases of outlawry.
EXIGIBLE
EX'IGIBLE, adjective [See Exigence.] That may be exacted; demandable; requirable.
EXIGUITY
EXIGU'ITY, noun [Latin exiguitas.] Smallness; slenderness. [Little used.]
EXIGUOUS
EXIG'UOUS, adjective [Latin exiguus.] Small; slender; minute; diminutive. [Little used.]
EXILE
EX'ILE, noun eg'zile. [Latin exilium, exul; The word is probably compounded of ex and a root in Sl, signifying to depart, or cut off, to separate, or the thrust away, perhaps La...
EXILED
EX'ILED, participle passive Banished; expelled from one's country by authority.
EXILEMENT
EX'ILEMENT, noun Banishment.
EXILING
EX'ILING, participle present tense Banishing; expelling from one's country by law, edict or sentence; voluntarily departing from one's country, and residing in another.
EXILITION
EXILI'TION, noun [Latin exilio, for exsalio, to leap out.]A sudden springing or leaping out. [Little used.]
EXILITY
EXIL'ITY, noun [Latin exilitas.] Slenderness; fineness; thinness.
EXIMIOUS
EXIM'IOUS, adjective [Latin eximius.] Excellent. [Little used.]
EXINANITE
EXIN'ANITE, verb transitive [Latin exinanio.] To make empty; to weaken. [Not used.]
EXINANITION
EXINANI'TION, noun [Latin exinanitio, from exinanio, to empty or evacuate; ex and inanio, to empty, inanis, empty, void.]An emptying or evacuation; hence, privation; loss; desti...
EXIST
EXIST', verb intransitive egzist'. [Latin existo; ex and sisto, or more directly from Gr. to set, place or fix; Latin sto, to stand. The primary sense is to set, fix or be fixed...
EXISTENCE
EXIST'ENCE, noun The state of being or having essence; as the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence; temporal existence1...
EXISTENT
EXIST'ENT, adjective Being; having being, essence or existence.The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent
EXISTENTIAL
EXISTEN'TIAL, adjective Having existence.
EXIT
EX'IT, noun [Latin the 3d person of exeo, to go out.] Literally, he goes out or departs. Hence,1. The departure of a player from the state, when he has performed his part. This ...
EXITIAL
EXI'TIALEXITIOUS, adjective [Latin exitialis.] Destructive to a life.
EXITIOUS
EXITIOUS, a. [L. exitialis.] Destructive to a life.
EXODE
EX'ODE, noun [Gr. See Exodus.] In the Greek drama, the concluding part of a play, or the part which comprehends all that is said after the last interlude.
EXODUS
EX'ODUSEX'ODY, noun [Gr. way.] Departure from a place; particularly, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses.1. The second book of the Old Testamen...