Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 60

Exanimate (a.) Lifeless; dead.

Exanimate (a.) Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.

Exanimate (v. t.) To deprive of animation or of life.

Exanimation (n.) Deprivation of life or of spirits.

Exanimous (a.) Lifeless; dead.

Exannulate (a.) Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns.

Exanthem (n.) Same as Exanthema.

Exanthemata (pl. ) of Exanthema

Exanthema (n.) An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.

Exanthematic (a.) Alt. of Exanthematous

Exanthematous (a.) Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.

Exanthesis (n.) An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

Exantlate (v. t.) To exhaust or wear out.

Exantlation (n.) Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.

Exarate (v. t.) To plow up; also, to engrave; to write.

Exaration (n.) Act of plowing; also, act of writing.

Exarch (n.) A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

Exarchate (n.) The office or the province of an exarch.

Exarillate (a.) Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.

Exarticulate (a.) Having but one joint; -- said of certain insects.

Exarticulation (n.) Luxation; the dislocation of a joint.

Exasperate (a.) Exasperated; imbittered.

Exsasperated (imp. & p. p.) of Exasperate

Exasperating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exasperate

Exasperate (v. t.) To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.

Exasperate (v. t.) To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity.

Exasperater (n.) One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.

Exasperation (n.) The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

Exasperation (n.) Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation.

Exaspidean (a.) Having the anterior scute/ extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; -- said of certain birds.

Exauctorate (v. t.) See Exauthorate.

Exauctoration (n.) See Exauthoration.

Exaugurate (v. t.) To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow.

Exauguration (n.) The act of exaugurating; desecration.

Exauthorate (v. t.) To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge.

Exauthoration (n.) Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration.

Exauthorize (v. t.) To deprive of uthority.

Exauthorize (v. t.) To deprive of authority.

Excalceate (v. t.) To deprive of shoes.

Excalceation (n.) The act of depriving or divesting of shoes.

Excalfaction (n.) A heating or warming; calefaction.

Excalfactive (a.) Serving to heat; warming.

Excalfactory (a.) Heating; warming.

Excalibur (n.) The name of King Arthur's mythical sword.

Excamb (v. t.) Alt. of Excambie

Excambie (v. t.) To exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land.

Excambion (n.) Alt. of Excambium

Excambium (n.) Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.

Excandescence (n.) A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence.

Excandescence (n.) Violent anger; a growing angry.

Excandescent (a.) White or glowing with heat.

Excantation (n.) Disenchantment by a countercharm.

Excarnate (v. t.) To deprive or clear of flesh.

Excarnation (n.) The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

Excarnificate (v. t.) To clear of flesh; to excarnate.

Excarnification (n.) The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation.

Excavated (imp. & p. p.) of Excavate

Excavating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excavate

Excavate (v. t.) To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

Excavate (v. t.) To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.

Excavate (v. t.) To dig out and remove, as earth.

Excavation (n.) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

Excavation (n.) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.

Excavation (n.) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.

Excavation (n.) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.

Excavator (n.) One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.

Excave (v. t.) To excavate.

Excecate (v. t.) To blind.

Excecation (n.) The act of making blind.

Excedent (v. t.) Excess.

Exceeded (imp. & p. p.) of Exceed

Exceeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exceed

Exceed (v. t.) To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.

Exceed (v. i.) To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.

Exceed (v. i.) To be more or greater; to be paramount.

Exceedable (a.) Capable of exceeding or surpassing.

Exceeder (n.) One who exceeds.

Exceeding (a.) More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless.

Exceeding (adv.) In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly.

Exceedingly (adv.) To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.

Excelled (imp. & p. p.) of Excel

Excelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excel

Excel (v. t.) To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.

Excel (v. t.) To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.

Excel (v. i.) To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.

Excellence (n.) The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.

Excellence (n.) An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

Excellence (n.) A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.

Excellencies (pl. ) of Excellency

Excellency (n.) Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.

Excellency (n.) A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.

Excellent (a.) Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action.

Excellent (a.) Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance.

Excellent (adv.) Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.

Excellently (adv.) In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.

Excellently (adv.) In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness.

Excelsior (v. t.) More lofty; still higher; ever upward.

Excelsior (n.) A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.

Excentral (a.) Out of the center.

Excentric (a.) Alt. of Excentrical

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