Excitement (n.) The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.
Excitement (n.) That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.
Excitement (n.) A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.
Exciter (n.) One who, or that which, excites.
Exciting (a.) Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.
Excitive (a.) Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
Excitive (n.) That which excites; an excitant.
Excito-motion (n.) Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
Excito-motor (a.) Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes.
Excito-motory (a.) Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.
Excito-nutrient (a) Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
Excito-secretory (a.) Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
Exclaimed (imp. & p. p.) of Exclaim
Exclaiming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exclaim
Exclaim (v. t. & i.) To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.
Exclaim (n.) Outcry; clamor.
Exclaimer (n.) One who exclaims.
Exclamation (n.) A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
Exclamation (n.) A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
Exclamation (n.) A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point.
Exclamative (a.) Exclamatory.
Exclamatory (a.) Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker.
Exclave (n.) A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.
Excluded (imp. & p. p.) of Exclude
Excluding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exclude
Exclude (v. t.) To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
Exclude (v. t.) To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
Exclusion (n.) The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.
Exclusion (n.) The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.
Exclusion (n.) Thing emitted.
Exclusionary (a.) Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.
Exclusionism (n.) The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist.
Exclusionist (n.) One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles II.
Exclusive (a.) Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.
Exclusive (a.) Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.
Exclusive (n.) One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.
Exclusiveness (n.) Quality of being exclusive.
Exclusivism (n.) The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.
Exclusivist (n.) One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism.
Exclusory (a.) Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.
Excoct (v. t.) To boil out; to produce by boiling.
Excoction () The act of excocting or boiling out.
Excogitated (imp. & p. p.) of Excogitate
Excogitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excogitate
Excogitate (v. t.) To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.
Excogitate (v. i.) To cogitate.
Excogitation (n.) The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
Excommune (v. t.) To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate.
Excommunicable (a.) Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper.
Excommunicant (n.) One who has been excommunicated.
Excommunicate (a.) Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
Excommunicate (n.) One excommunicated.
Excommunicated (imp. & p. p.) of Excommunicate
Excommunicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excommunicate
Excommunicate (v. t.) To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
Excommunicate (v. t.) To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
Excommunication (n.) The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
Excommunicator (n.) One who excommunicates.
Excommunion () A shutting out from communion; excommunication.
Excoriable () Capable of being excoriated.
Excoriated (imp. & p. p.) of Eccoriate
excoriating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eccoriate
Eccoriate (v. t.) To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.
Excoriation (n.) The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
Excoriation (n.) Stripping of possession; spoliation.
Excorticate (v. t.) To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate.
Excortication (n.) The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.
Excreable (a.) Capable of being discharged by spitting.
Excreate (v. t.) To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
Excreation (n.) Act of spitting out.
Excrement (n.) Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
Excrement (n.) An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.
Excremental (a.) Of or pertaining to excrement.
Excrementitial (a.) Alt. of Excrementitious
Excrementitious (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.
Excrementive (a.) Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement.
Excrementize (v. i.) To void excrement.
Excrescence (n.) An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant.
Excrescency (n.) Excrescence.
Excrescent (a.) Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
Excrescential (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
Excreta (n. pl.) Matters to be excreted.
Excreted (imp. & p. p.) of Excrete
Excreting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excrete
Excrete (v. t.) To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.
Excretin (n.) A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human faeces.
Excretion (n.) The act of excreting.
Excretion (n.) That which is excreted; excrement.
Excretive (a.) Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion.
Excretory (a.) Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
Excruciable (a.) Liable to torment.
Excruciate (a.) Excruciated; tortured.
Excruciated (imp. & p. p.) of Excruciate
Excruciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excruciate
Excruciate (v. t.) To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.
Excruciating () Torturing; racking.
Excruciation (n.) The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.
Excubation (n.) A keeping watch.
Excubitorium (n.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.
Exculpable () Capable of being exculpated; deserving exculpation.