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ex

Without (some right); not including the right to have; as, a stock selling ex dividend (a stock for which the right to a dividend has expired the previous day); ex interest; ex rights.

Ex-voto

An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.

Exacerbate

To render more violent or bitter; to irritate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.

Exacerbation

The act of rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.

Exacerbescence

Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.

Exact

To practice exaction.

Exacting

Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.

Exaction

The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.

Exactly

In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.

Exactness

The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of judgement or deportment.

Exactor

One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands.

Exaeresis

In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.

Exaggerator

One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration.

Exaggeratory

Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative.

Exalbuminous

Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds.

Exalt

To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

Exaltate

Exercising its highest influence; -- said of a planet.

Exaltation

The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.

Exalted

Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime.

Exalter

One who exalts or raises to dignity.

Examinable

Capable of being examined or inquired into.

Examination

The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.

Examine

To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.

Examiner

One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.

Examining

Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.

Examplary

Serving for example or pattern; exemplary.

Example

To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.

Exannulate

Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns.

Exanthema

An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.

Exanthesis

An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

Exarate

To plow up; also, to engrave; to write.

Exaration

Act of plowing; also, act of writing.

Exarch

A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

Exarchate

The office or the province of an exarch.

Exarillate

Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.

Exarticulate

Having but one joint; -- said of certain insects.

Exasperate

To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to excite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.

Exasperater

One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.

Exasperation

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

Exaspidean

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; -- said of certain birds.

Exaugurate

To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow.

Exauthorate

To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge.

Excalibur

The name of King Arthur's mythical sword.

Excandescence

A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence.

Excarnation

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

Excarnification

The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation.

Excavate

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.

Excavation

The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

Excavator

One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.

Exceed

To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.

Exceeding

In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly.

Exceedingly

To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.

Excel

To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.

Excellence

The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.

Excellency

Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.

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