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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.

Excellent

Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.

Excellently

In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.

Excelsior

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

Except

Unless; if it be not so that.

Excepting

With rejection or exception of; excluding; except.

Exception

The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

Exceptional

Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.

Exceptioner

One who takes exceptions or makes objections.

Exceptious

Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious.

Exceptive

That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition.

Excern

To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.

Excernent

Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.

Excerpt

An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

Excerptor

One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.

Excess

The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.

Excessive

Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.

exchange

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

Exchange

To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.

Exchangeable

Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.

Exchanger

One who exchanges; one who practices exchange.

Exchequer

To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.

Excisable

Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity.

Excise

To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

Exciseman

An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty.

Excision

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

Excitability

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Excitable

Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.

Excitant

An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.

Excitation

The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.

Excitative

Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.

Excitatory

Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.

Excite

To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

Exciteful

Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players.

Excitement

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.

Exciter

One who, or that which, excites.

Exciting

Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.

Excitive

That which excites; an excitant.

Excito-motor

Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes.

Excito-motory

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

Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.

Excito-secretory

Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.

Exclamation

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.

Exclamatory

Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker.

Exclave

A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.

Exclude

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.

Exclusion

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.

Exclusionary

Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.

Exclusionism

The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist.

Exclusionist

One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles II.

Exclusive

One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.

Exclusivism

The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.

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