Exegetist (n.) One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete.
Exemplar (n.) A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.
Exemplar (n.) A copy of a book or writing.
Exemplar (a.) Exemplary.
Exemplarily (adv.) In a manner fitted or designed to be an example for imitation or for warning; by way of example.
Exemplariness (n.) The state or quality of being exemplary; fitness to be an example.
Exemplarity (n.) Exemplariness.
Exemplary (a.) Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.
Exemplary (a.) Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.
Exemplary (a.) Illustrating as the proof of a thing.
Exemplary (n.) An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.
Exemplifiable (a.) That can be exemplified.
Exemplification (n.) The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
Exemplification (n.) That which exemplifies; a case in point; example.
Exemplification (n.) A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original.
Exemplifier (n.) One who exemplifies by following a pattern.
Exemplified (imp. & p. p.) of Exemplify
Exemplifying (p. pr. &. vb. n.) of Exemplify
Exemplify (v. t.) To show or illustrate by example.
Exemplify (v. t.) To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record.
Exemplify (v. t.) To prove or show by an attested copy.
Exempt (a.) Cut off; set apart.
Exempt (a.) Extraordinary; exceptional.
Exempt (a.) Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.
Exempt (n.) One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
Exempt (n.) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.
Exempted (imp. & p. p.) of Exempt
Exempting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exempt
Exempt (a.) To remove; to set apart.
Exempt (a.) To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.
Exemptible (a.) That may be exempted.
Exemption (n.) The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc.
Exemptitious (a.) Separable.
Exenterate (v. t.) To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes.
Exenteration (n.) Act of exenterating.
Exequatur (n.) A written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned.
Exequatur (n.) Official recognition or permission.
Exequial (a.) Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.
Exequious (a.) Funereal.
Exequies (pl. ) of Exequy
Exequy (n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.
Exercent (a.) Practicing; professional.
Exercisable (a.) That may be exercised, used, or exerted.
Exercise (n.) The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.
Exercise (n.) Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
Exercise (n.) Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.
Exercise (n.) The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.
Exercise (n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.
Exercise (n.) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
Exercised (imp. & p. p.) of Exercise
Exercising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exercise
Exercise (v. t.) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.
Exercise (v. t.) To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.
Exercise (v. t.) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.
Exercise (v. t.) To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.
Exercise (v. i.) To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.
Exerciser (n.) One who exercises.
Exercisible (a.) Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.
Exercitation (n.) exercise; practice; use.
Exergue (n.) The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter.
Exerted (imp. & p. p.) of Exert
Exerting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exert
Exert (v. t.) To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.
Exert (v. t.) To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.
Exert (v. t.) To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.
Exertion (n.) The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day.
Exertive (a.) Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.
Exertment (n.) Exertion.
Exesion (n.) The act of eating out or through.
Exestuate (v. i.) To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
Exestuation (n.) A boiling up; effervescence.
Exeunt () They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit.
Exfetation (n) Imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra-uterine fetation.
Exfoliated (imp. & p. p.) of Exfoliate
Exfoliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exfoliate
Exfoliate (v. i.) To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
Exfoliate (v. i.) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.
Exfoliate (v. t.) To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of.
Exfoliation (n.) The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.
Exfoliative (a.) Having the power of causing exfoliation.
Exfoliative (n.) An exfoliative agent.
Exhalable (a.) Capable of being exhaled or evaporated.
Exhalant (a.) Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.
Exhalation (n.) The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
Exhalation (n.) That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.
Exhalation (n.) A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
Exaled (imp. & p. p.) of Exhale
Exaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exhale
Exhale (v. t.) To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
Exhale (v. t.) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth.
Exhale (v. i.) To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.
Exhalement (n.) Exhalation.
Exhalence (n.) Exhalation.
Exhausted (imp. & p. p.) of Exhaust
Exhausting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exhaust
Exhaust (v. t.) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
Exhaust (v. t.) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
Exhaust (v. t.) To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.
Exhaust (v. t.) To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.
Exhaust (v. t.) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.