Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 59

Evulgation (n.) A divulging.

Evulsion (n.) The act of plucking out; a rooting out.

Ew (n.) A yew.

Ewe (n.) The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.

Ewe-necked (a.) Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out.

Ewer (n.) A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet.

Ewery (n.) Alt. of Ewry

Ewry (n.) An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept.

Ewt (n.) The newt.

Ex- () A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or e-; as, escape, scape, elite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The Greek form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric.

Exacerrated (imp. & p. p.) of Exacerbate

Exacerrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exacerbate

Exacerbate (v. t.) To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.

Exacerbation (n.) The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.

Exacerbation (n.) A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.

Exacerbescence (n.) Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.

Exacervation (n.) The act of heaping up.

Exacinate (v. t.) To remove the kernel form.

Exacination (n.) Removal of the kernel.

Exact (a.) Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.

Exact (a.) Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.

Exact (a.) Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

Exacted (imp. & p. p.) of Exact

Exacting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exact

Exact (a.) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.

Exact (v. i.) To practice exaction.

Exacter (n.) An exactor.

Exacting (a.) Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.

Exaction (n.) The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.

Exaction (n.) That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.

Exacritude (n.) The quality of being exact; exactness.

Exactly (adv.) In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.

Exactness (n.) The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.

Exactness (n.) Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business.

Exactor (n.) One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands.

Exactress (n.) A woman who is an exactor.

Exacuate (v. t.) To whet or sharpen.

Exaeresis (n.) In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.

Exaggerated (imp. & p. p.) of Exaggerate

Exaggerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exaggerate

Exaggerate (v. t.) To heap up; to accumulate.

Exaggerate (v. t.) To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.

Exaggerated (a.) Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth.

Exaggerating (a.) That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds.

Exaggeration (n.) The act of heaping or piling up.

Exaggeration (n.) The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.

Exaggeration (n.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

Exaggerative (a.) Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.

Exaggerator (n.) One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration.

Exaggeratory (a.) Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative.

Exagitate (v. t.) To stir up; to agitate.

Exagitate (v. t.) To satirize; to censure severely.

Exagitation (n.) Agitation.

Exalbuminous (a.) Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds.

Exalted (imp. & p. p.) of Exalt

Exalting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exalt

Exalt (v. t.) To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

Exalt (v. t.) To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.

Exalt (v. t.) To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.

Exalt (v. t.) To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.

Exalt (v. t.) To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.

Exalt (v. t.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.

Exaltate (a.) Exercising its highest influence; -- said of a planet.

Exaltation (n.) The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.

Exaltation (n.) The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.

Exaltation (n.) That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.

Exalted (a.) Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime.

Exalter (n.) One who exalts or raises to dignity.

Exaltment (n.) Exaltation.

Examen (a.) Examination; inquiry.

Exametron (n.) An hexameter.

Examinable (a.) Capable of being examined or inquired into.

Examinant (n.) One who examines; an examiner.

Examinant (n.) One who is to be examined.

Examinate (n.) A person subjected to examination.

Examination (n.) The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.

Examination (n.) A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.

Examinator (n.) An examiner.

Examined (imp. & p. p.) of Examine

Examining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Examine

Examine (v. t.) To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.

Examine (v. t.) To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc.

Examinee (n.) A person examined.

Examiner (n.) One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.

Examinership (n.) The office or rank of an examiner.

Examining (a.) Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.

Examplary (a.) Serving for example or pattern; exemplary.

Example (n.) One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

Example (n.) That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.

Example (n.) That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.

Example (n.) That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.

Example (n.) An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.

Exampled (imp. & p. p.) of Example

Exampling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Example

Example (v. t.) To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.

Exampleless (a.) Without or above example.

Exampler (n.) A pattern; an exemplar.

Exampless (a.) Exampleless. [Wrongly formed.]

Exanguious (a.) Bloodless. [Obs.] See Exsanguious.

Exangulous (a.) Having no corners; without angles.

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