by virtue of an office or position.

a former president.

a person who has served in the armed forces.

a person who was formerly a spouse.

An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.

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

Making worse.

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

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

The act of heaping up.

To remove the kernel form.

Removal of the kernel.

To practice exaction.

An exactor.

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

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.

The quality of being exact; exactness.

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

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

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

A woman who is an exactor.

To whet or sharpen.

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

To heap up; to accumulate.

Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth.

That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds.

The act of heaping or piling up.

Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.

One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration.

Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative.

To stir up; to agitate.

Agitation.

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

To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

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

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

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

One who exalts or raises to dignity.

Exaltation.

Examination; inquiry.

An hexameter.

Capable of being examined or inquired into.

One who examines; an examiner.

A person subjected to examination.

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

An examiner.

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.

A person examined.

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.

The office or rank of an examiner.

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

Serving for example or pattern; exemplary.

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

Without or above example.

A pattern; an exemplar.

Exampleless. [Wrongly formed.]

Bloodless. [Obs.] See Exsanguious.

Having no corners; without angles.

To deprive of animation or of life.

Deprivation of life or of spirits.

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

Same as 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.

Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.

An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

To exhaust or wear out.

Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.

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

Act of plowing; also, act of writing.

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.

The office or the province of an exarch.

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

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

Luxation; the dislocation of a joint.

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.

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

extremely annoying or displeasing.

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

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

See Exauthorate.

See Exauthoration.

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

The act of exaugurating; desecration.

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

Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration.

To deprive of authority.

To deprive of shoes.

The act of depriving or divesting of shoes.

A heating or warming; calefaction.

Serving to heat; warming.

Heating; warming.

The name of King Arthur's mythical sword.

To exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land.

Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.

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

White or glowing with heat.

Disenchantment by a countercharm.

To deprive or clear of flesh.

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

To clear of flesh; to excarnate.

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

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.

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

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

To excavate.

To blind.

The act of making blind.

Excess.

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

Capable of exceeding or surpassing.

One who exceeds.

In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly.

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

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

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

Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.

Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.

In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.

A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.

Out of the center.