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Exhibitioner

One who has a pension or allowance granted for support.

exhibitionist

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

Exhibitive

Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory.

Exhilarant

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

exhilarated

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

Exhilaration

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.

Exhumation

The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.

Exhume

To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

Exigency

The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency.

Exigent

Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.

Exigenter

An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was to make out exigents. The office is now abolished.

Exigible

That may be exacted; repairable.

Exiguity

Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

Exiguous

Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.

Exile

Small; slender; thin; fine.

Exilic

Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon.

Exility

Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.

Eximious

Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent.

Exinanite

To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble.

Exinanition

An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.

Exist

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

Existence

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence.

Existent

Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.

existentialism

a philosophical theory or attitude having various interpretations, generally emphasising the existence of the individual as a unique agent with free will and responsibility for his or her own acts, though living in a universe devoid of any certain knowledge of right and wrong; from one's plight as a free agent with uncertain guidelines may arise feelings of anguish. Existentialism is concerned more with concrete existence rather than abstract theories of essences; is contrasted with rationalism and empiricism; and is associated with Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre, as well as others.

existing

having existence or being or actuality; as, much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran. Opposite of nonexistent.

Exit

The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.

Exmoor

One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.

Exocardial Exocardiac

Situated or arising outside of the heart; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.

Exocarp

The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.

Exoccipital

Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull. The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young.

Exode

Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

Exodic

Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.

exodontics

the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth.

exodontist

a dentist specializing in the extraction of teeth.

Exodus

A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.

Exogamous

Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.

Exogamy

The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.

Exogen

A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen.

Exogenetic

Arising or growing from without; exogenous.

exogenous

derived from or originating outside; pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.

Exogyra

A genus of Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters.

Exolete

Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid.

Exon

An officer of the Yeomen of the Guard; an Exempt.

Exonerate

To unload; to disburden; to discharge.

Exoneration

The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.

Exonerative

Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.

Exonerator

One who exonerates or frees from obligation.

Exophthalmia

The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.

Exophthalmic

Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.

Exopodite

The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea.

Exoptile

A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

Exorable

Capable of being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender.

Exorate

To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty.

Exorbitancy Exorbitance

A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands.

Exorbitant

Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.

Exorbitantly

In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.

Exorcise

To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one.

Exorcism

The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.

Exorcist

One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.

Exordial

Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.

Exordium

A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration.

Exorhiza

A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.

Exorhizous Exorhizal

Having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.

Exosculate

To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly.

Exoskeletal

Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles.

Exoskeleton

The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

Exosmose

The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids through membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.

Exospore

The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.

Exossate

To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone.

Exostome

The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

Exostosis

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.

Exoterical Exoteric

External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret.

Exoterics

The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics.

Exotery

That which is obvious, public, or common.

Exotheca

The tissue which fills the interspaces between the cost/ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

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