Excantation Ex`can·ta"tion noun [ Latin excantare to charm out. See Ex... , and Chant .] Disenchantment by a countercharm. [ Obsolete] Gayton.

Excarnate Ex·car"nate transitive verb [ Late Latin excarnatus , past participle of excarnare ; Latin ex out + caro , carnis , flesh.] To deprive or clear of flesh. Grew.

Excarnation Ex`car·na"tion noun The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation .

Excarnificate Ex·car"ni·fi·cate transitive verb [ Latin ex out + Late Latin carnificatus , past participle carnificare to carnify; confer Latin excarnificare to tear to pieces, torment. See Carnify .] To clear of flesh; to excarnate. Dr. H. More.

Excarnification Ex·car`ni·fi·ca"tion noun The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation. Johnson.

Excavate Ex"ca·vate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Excavated; present participle & verbal noun Excavating.] [ Latin excavatus , past participle of excavare to excavate; ex out + cavare to make hollow, cavus hollow. See Cave .] 1. 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.

2. To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.

3. (Engineering) To dig out and remove, as earth.

The material excavated was usually sand.

E. Latin Corthell.

Excavating pump , a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.

Excavation Ex`ca·va"tion noun [ Latin excavatio : confer French excavation .] 1. The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

2. A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. "A winding excavation ." Glover.

3. (Engineering) (a) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel . (b) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.

The delivery of the excavations at a distance of 250 feet.

E. Latin Corthell.

Excavator Ex"ca·va`tor noun One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.

Excave Ex·cave" transitive verb [ Latin excavare .] To excavate. [ Obsolete] Cockeram.

Excecate Ex·ce"cate transitive verb [ Latin excaecatus , past participle of excaecare to blind; ex (intens.) + caecare to blind, caecus blind.] To blind. [ Obsolete] Cockeram.

Excecation Ex`ce·ca"tion noun The act of making blind. [ Obsolete] Bp. Richardson.

Excedent Ex·ced"ent noun [ Latin excedens , -entis , present participle of excedere . See Exceed , transitive verb ] Excess. [ R.]

Exceed Ex·ceed" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Exceeded ; present participle & verbal noun Exceeding .] [ Latin excedere , excessum , to go away or beyond; ex out + cedere to go, to pass: confer French excéder . See Cede .] 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.

Name the time, but let it not
Exceed three days.

Shak.

Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair.

Pope.

Syn. -- To outdo; surpass; excel; transcend; outstrip; outvie; overtop.

Exceed Ex·ceed" intransitive verb 1. To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure. "In our reverence to whom, we can not possibly exceed ." Jer. Taylor.

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed .

Deut. xxv. 3.

2. To be more or greater; to be paramount. Shak.

Exceedable Ex·ceed"a·ble adjective Capable of exceeding or surpassing. [ Obsolete] Sherwood.

Exceeder Ex·ceed"er noun One who exceeds. Bp. Montagu.

Exceeding Ex·ceed"ing adjective More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness , noun [ Obsolete] Sir P. Sidney.

Exceeding Ex·ceed"ing adverb In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly. [ Archaic. It is not joined to verbs.] "The voice exceeding loud." Keble.

His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow.

Mark ix. 3.

The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea.

Sir W. Raleigh.

Exceedingly Ex·ceed"ing·ly adverb To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very .

Excel Ex·cel" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Excelled; present participle & verbal noun Excelling .] [ Latin excellere , excelsum ; ex out + a root found in culmen height, top; confer French exceller . See Culminate , Column .] 1. To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.

Excelling others, these were great;
Thou, greater still, must these excel .

Prior.

I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

Eccl. ii. 13.

2. To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.

She opened; but to shut
Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood.

Milton.

Excel Ex·cel" intransitive verb To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel .

Gen. xlix. 4.

Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel .

Pope.

Excellence Ex"cel·lence noun [ French excellence , Latin excellentia .] 1. The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.

Consider first that great
Or bright infers not excellence .

Milton.

2. An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

With every excellence refined.

Beattie.

3. A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency .

I do greet your excellence
With letters of commission from the king.

Shak.

Syn. -- Superiority; preëminence; perfection; worth; goodness; purity; greatness.

Excellency Ex"cel·len·cy noun ; plural Excellencies 1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.

His excellency is over Israel.

Ps. lxviii. 34.

Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency .

Hooker.

2. 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 Ex"cel·lent adjective [ French excellent , Latin excellens , -entis , present participle of excellere . See Excel .] 1. 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.

To love . . .
What I see excellent in good or fair.

Milton.

2. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance. [ Obsolete or Ironical] "An excellent hypocrite." Hume.

Their sorrows are most excellent .

Beau. & Fl.

Syn. -- Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite; transcendent; admirable; worthy.

Excellent Ex"cel·lent adverb Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [ Obsolete] "This comes off well and excellent ." Shak.

Excellently Ex"cel·lent·ly adverb 1. In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.

2. In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness. [ Obsolete]

When the whole heart is excellently sorry.

J. Fletcher.

Excelsior Ex·cel"si·or adjective [ Latin , compar. of excelsus elevated, lofty, past participle of excellere . See Excel , transitive verb ] More lofty; still higher; ever upward.

Excelsior Ex·cel"si·or noun A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.

Excentral Ex·cen"tral adjective [ Prefix ex- + central .] (Botany) Out of the center.

Excentric, Excentrical Ex·cen"tric, Ex·cen"tric·al adjective 1. Same as Eccentric , Eccentrical .

2. (Botany) One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. Gray.

Excentricity Ex`cen·tric"i·ty (Math.) Same as Eccentricity .

Except Ex·cept" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Excepted ; present participle & verbal noun Excepting .] [ Latin exceptus , past participle of excipere to take or draw out, to except; ex out + capere to take: confer French excepter . See Capable .] 1. To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

Who never touched
The excepted tree.

Milton.

Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred.

Bp. Stillingfleet.

2. To object to; to protest against. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Except Ex·cept" intransitive verb To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to , sometimes by against ; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.

Except thou wilt except against my love.

Shak.

Except Ex·cept" preposition [ Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode.] With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

God and his Son except ,
Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned .

Milton.

Syn. -- Except , Excepting , But , Save , Besides . Excepting , except , but , and save are exclusive. Except marks exclusion more pointedly. "I have finished all the letters except one," is more marked than "I have finished all the letters but one." Excepting is the same as except , but less used. Save is chiefly found in poetry. Besides (lit., by the side of) is in the nature of addition. "There is no one here except or but him," means, take him away and there is nobody present. "There is nobody here besides him," means, he is present and by the side of, or in addition to, him is nobody. "Few ladies, except her Majesty, could have made themselves heard." In this example, besides should be used, not except .

Except Ex·cept" conj. Unless; if it be not so that.

And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Gen. xxxii. 26.

But yesterday you never opened lip,
Except , indeed, to drink.

Tennyson.

» As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except .

Exceptant Ex·cept"ant adjective Making exception.

Excepting Ex·cept"ing preposition & conj., but properly a participle . With rejection or exception of; excluding; except. " Excepting your worship's presence." Shak.

No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself.

Lubbock.

Exception Ex·cep"tion noun [ Latin exceptio : confer French exception .] 1. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

2. That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions .

Such rare exceptions , shining in the dark,
Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark.

Cowper.

Often with to .

That proud exception to all nature's laws.

Pope.

3. (Law) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted. Burrill.

4. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against .

I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [ relation].

Bentley.

He . . . took exception to the place of their burial.

Bacon.

She takes exceptions at your person.

Shak.

Bill of exceptions (Law) , a statement of exceptions to the decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a cause, made for the purpose of putting the points decided on record so as to bring them before a superior court or the full bench for review.

Exceptionable Ex·cep"tion·a·ble adjective Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness , noun

This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem.

Addison.

Exceptional Ex·cep"tion·al adjective [ Confer French exceptionnel .] Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell.

This particular spot had exceptional advantages.

Jowett (Th. )

-- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly adverb

Exceptioner Ex·cep"tion·er noun One who takes exceptions or makes objections. [ Obsolete] Milton.

Exceptionless Ex·cep"tion·less adjective Without exception.

A universal, . . . exceptionless disqualification.

Bancroft.

Exceptious Ex·cep"tious adjective Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious. [ Obsolete]

At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious .

South.

-- Ex*cep"tious*ness , noun [ Obsolete] Barrow.

Exceptive Ex·cept"ive adjective That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. I. Watts.

A particular and exceptive law.

Milton.

Exceptless Ex·cept"less adjective Not exceptional; usual. [ Obsolete]

My general and exceptless rashness.

Shak.

Exceptor Ex·cept"or noun [ Latin , a scribe.] One who takes exceptions. T. Burnet.

Excerebration Ex·cer`e·bra"tion noun [ Latin excerebratus deprived of brains; ex out + cerebrum brain.] The act of removing or beating out the brains.

Excerebrose Ex·cer"e·brose` adjective [ See Excerebration .] Brainless. [ R.]

Excern Ex·cern" transitive verb [ Latin excernere . See Excrete .] To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. [ R.] Bacon.

Excernent Ex·cern"ent adjective [ See Excern .] (Physiol.) Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.

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