Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 63

Exculpated (imp. & p. p.) of Exculpate

Exculpating () of Exculpate

Exculpate (v. t.) To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.

Exculpation (n.) The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.

Exculpatory () Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing.

Excur (i.) To run out or forth; to extend.

Excurrent (a.) Running or flowing out

Excurrent (a.) Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top.

Excurrent (a.) Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube.

Excurse (v. t.) To journey or pass thought.

Excursion () A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.

Excursion () A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.

Excursion () A wandering from a subject; digression.

Excursion () Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]

Excursionist (n.) One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.

Excursive (a.) Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.

Excursus (n.) A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.

Excusable (a.) That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action.

Excusation (n.) Excuse; apology.

Excusator (n.) One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.

Excusatory (a.) Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.

Excused (imp. & p. p.) of Excuse

Excusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excuse

Excuse (v. t.) To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.

Excuse (v. t.) To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.

Excuse (v. t.) To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.

Excuse (v. t.) To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.

Excuse (v. t.) To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.

Excuse (v. t.) The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.

Excuse (v. t.) That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.

Excuse (v. t.) That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.

Excuseless (a.) Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology.

Excusement (n.) Excuse.

Excuser (n.) One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.

Excuser (n.) One who excuses or forgives another.

Excuss (v. t.) To shake off; to discard.

Excuss (v. t.) To inspect; to investigate; to decipher.

Excuss (v. t.) To seize and detain by law, as goods.

Excussion (n.) The act of excusing; seizure by law.

Exeat (n.) A license for absence from a college or a religious house.

Exeat (n.) A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.

Execrable (a.) Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.

Execrated (imp. & p. p.) of Execrate

Execrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Execrate

Execrate (v. t.) To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.

Execration (n.) The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.

Execration (n.) That which is execrated; a detested thing.

Execrative (a.) Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.

Execrative (n.) A word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression.

Execratory (a.) Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory.

Execratory (n.) A formulary of execrations.

Exect (v. t.) To cut off or out. [Obs.] See Exsect.

Exection (n.) See Exsection.

Executable (a.) Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project.

Executant (n.) One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument.

Executed (imp. & p. p.) of Execute

Executing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Execute

Execute (v. t.) To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

Execute (v. t.) To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.

Execute (v. t.) To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.

Execute (v. t.) To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.

Execute (v. t.) Too put to death illegally; to kill.

Execute (v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly.

Execute (v. i.) To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose.

Execute (v. i.) To perform musically.

Executer (n.) One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.

Execution (n.) The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

Execution (n.) A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer.

Execution (n.) The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music.

Execution (n.) The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.

Execution (n.) A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process.

Execution (n.) The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will.

Execution (n.) That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do.

Execution (n.) The act of sacking a town.

Executioner (n.) One who executes; an executer.

Executioner (n.) One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.

Executive (a.) Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc.

Executive (n.) An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.

Executively (adv.) In the way of executing or performing.

Executor (n.) One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.

Executor (n.) An executioner.

Executor (n.) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.

Executorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an executive.

Executorship (n.) The office of an executor.

Executory (a.) Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.

Executory (a.) Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract.

Executress (n.) An executrix.

Executrix (n.) A woman exercising the functions of an executor.

Exedent (a.) Eating out; consuming.

Exedrae (pl. ) of Exedra

Exedra (n.) A room in a public building, furnished with seats.

Exedra (n.) The projection of any part of a building in a rounded form.

Exedra (n.) Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form.

Exegeses (pl. ) of Exegesis

Exegesis (n.) Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.

Exegesis (n.) The process of finding the roots of an equation.

Exegete (n.) An exegetist.

Exegetic (a.) Alt. of Exegetical

Exegetical (a.) Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository.

Exegetics (n.) The science of interpretation or exegesis.

[previous page] [Index] [next page]