A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.

That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action.

Excuse; apology.

One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.

Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.

The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.

Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology.

Excuse.

One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.

To shake off; to discard.

The act of excusing; seizure by law.

A license for absence from a college or a religious house.

Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.

To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.

The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.

A word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression.

Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory. A formulary of execrations.

To cut off or out. [Obs.] See Exsect.

See Exsection.

Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project.

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument.

To do one's work; to act one's part or purpose.

One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.

putting a condemned person to death.

The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

One who executes; an executer.

An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.

In the way of executing or performing.

One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.

Of or pertaining to an executive.

The office of an executor.

Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.

An executrix.

A woman exercising the functions of an executor.

Eating out; consuming.

A room in a public building, furnished with seats.

Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.

An exegetist.

Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository.

The science of interpretation or exegesis.

One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete.

Exemplary.

In a manner fitted or designed to be an example for imitation or for warning; by way of example.

The state or quality of being exemplary; fitness to be an example.

Exemplariness.

An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.

That can be exemplified.

The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.

One who exemplifies by following a pattern.

To show or illustrate by example.

clarifying by use of examples.

To remove; to set apart.

That may be exempted.

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.

Separable.

To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes.

Act of exenterating.

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.

Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.

Funereal.

Practicing; professional.

That may be exercised, used, or exerted; as, the stock options are exercisable for only five years from the date of issue.

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.

One who exercises.

Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.

exercise; practice; use.

a stationary bike for exercising.

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.

To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.

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.

Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.

Exertion.

The act of eating out or through.

To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.

A boiling up; effervescence.

Imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra-uterine fetation.

To remove scales, lamin/, or splinters from the surface of.

The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.

Having the power of causing exfoliation. An exfoliative agent.

Capable of being exhaled or evaporated.

Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.

The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.

To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.

Exhalation.

Exhalation.

breathing out; exhalation{1}.

The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

same as burned-out, 1.

One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out.

Capability of being exhausted.

Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended. Opposite of inexhaustible.

Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors.

The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.

Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method.

Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.

Exhaustion; drain.

Exhaustion.

See Exedra.

To disinherit.

A disinheriting; disherison.

A disinheriting; disherison.

Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.

One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill.

The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display.

One who has a pension or allowance granted for support.

a person with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals; -- usually a male.

compulsively attracting attention to oneself especially by boasting or exaggerated behavior.

Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory.

One who exhibits.

Exhibiting; publicly showing.

Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure. That which exhilarates.

To become joyous.

elated, in high spirits, and envigorated. Opposite of dejected.

That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening.

The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.

Exhortation.

The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.

Serving to exhort; exhortatory; hortative.

Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory.

One who exhorts or incites.