Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 73

Extirper (n.) Extirpator.

Extispicious (a.) Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication.

Extogenous (a.) Exogenous.

Extolled (imp. & p. p.) of Extol

Extolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extol

Extol (v. t.) To place on high; to lift up; to elevate.

Extol (v. t.) To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person.

Extoller (n.) One who extols; one who praises.

Extolment (n.) Praise.

Extorsive (a.) Serving or tending to extort.

Extorted (imp. & p. p.) of Extort

Extorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extort

Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.

Extort (v. t.) To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2.

Extort (v. i.) To practice extortion.

Extort (p. p. & a.) Extorted.

Extorter (n.) One who practices extortion.

Extortion (n.) The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge.

Extortion (n.) The offense committed by an officer who corruptly claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it is due.

Extortion (n.) That which is extorted or exacted by force.

Extortionary (a.) Extortionate.

Extortionate (a.) Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.

Extortioner (n.) One who practices extortion.

Extortious (a.) Extortionate.

Extra- () A Latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; -- often used in composition as a prefix signifying outside of, beyond, besides, or in addition to what is denoted by the word to which it is prefixed.

Extra (a.) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary; also, extraordinarily good; superior; as, extra work; extra pay.

Extras (pl. ) of Extra

Extra (n.) Something in addition to what is due, expected, or customary; something in addition to the regular charge or compensation, or for which an additional charge is made; as, at European hotels lights are extras.

Extraarticular (a.) Situated outside of a joint.

Extraaxillar (a.) Alt. of Extraaxillary

Extraaxillary (a.) Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.

Extrabranchial (a.) Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.

Extracapsular (a.) Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.

Extracted (imp. & p. p.) of Extract

Extracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extract

Extract (v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.

Extract (v. t.) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.

Extract (v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

Extract (n.) That which is extracted or drawn out.

Extract (n.) A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.

Extract (n.) A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

Extract (n.) A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.

Extract (n.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.

Extract (n.) Extraction; descent.

Extract (n.) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.

Extractable (a.) Alt. of Extractible

Extractible (a.) Capable of being extracted.

Extractiform (a.) Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.

Extraction (n.) The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.

Extraction (n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

Extraction (n.) That which is extracted; extract; essence.

Extractive (a.) Capable of being extracted.

Extractive (a.) Tending or serving to extract or draw out.

Extractive (n.) Anything extracted; an extract.

Extractive (n.) A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.

Extractive (n.) Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.

Extractor (n.) One who, or that which, extracts

Extractor (n.) A forceps or instrument for extracting substances.

Extractor (n.) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.

Extradictionary (a.) Consisting not in words, but in realities.

Extraditable (a.) Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.

Extraditable (a.) Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.

Extradited (imp. & p. p.) of Extradite

Extraditing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extradite

Extradite (v. t.) To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.

Extradition (n.) The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.

Extrados (n.) The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados.

Extradotal (a.) Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.

Extrafoliaceous (a.) Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles.

Extraforaneous (a.) Pertaining to that which is out of doors.

Extrageneous (a.) Belonging to another race or kind.

Extrajudicial (a.) Out of or beyond the proper authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not legally required.

Extralimitary (a.) Being beyond the limit or bounds; as, extraliminary land.

Extralogical (a.) Lying outside of the domain of logic.

Extramission (n.) A sending out; emission.

Extramundane (a.) Beyond the material world.

Extramural (a.) Outside of the walls, as of a fortified or walled city.

Extraneity (n.) State of being without or beyond a thing; foreignness.

Extraneous (a.) Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter.

Extra-ocular (a.) Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennae of certain insects.

Extra-official (a.) Not prescribed by official duty.

Extraordinarily (adv.) In an extraordinary manner or degree.

Extraordinariness (n.) The quality of being extraordinary.

Extraordinary (a.) Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.

Extraordinary (a.) Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur.

Extraordinary (a.) Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.

Extraordinaries (pl. ) of Extraordinary

Extraordinary (n.) That which is extraordinary; -- used especially in the plural; as, extraordinaries excepted, there is nothing to prevent success.

Extraparochial (a.) Beyond the limits of a parish.

Extraphysical (a.) Not subject to physical laws or methods.

Extraprofessional (a.) Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.

Extraprovincial (a.) Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction.

Extraregular (a.) Not comprehended within a rule or rules.

Extrastapedial (a.) Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which, in many animals, projects beyond the connection with the stapes.

Extrastapedial (n.) The extrastapedial part of columella.

Extraterritorial (a.) Beyond the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction; exterritorial.

Extraterritoriality (n.) The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory

Extraterritoriality (n.) A fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation.

Extratropical (a.) Beyond or outside of the tropics.

Extraught (p. p.) Extracted; descended.

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