One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.

Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.

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.

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

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

Ornament; decoration; embellishment.

Rising; relating to the east.

To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly.

Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles.

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.

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.

See Exosmose.

Pertaining to exosmose.

The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.

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

A depriving of bone or of fruit stones.

Boneless.

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

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

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

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

That which is obvious, public, or common.

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

The outer coat of the anther.

Characterized by, or formed with, evolution of heat; as, an exothermic reaction; -- opposed to endothermic.

Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.

Foreign; not native; exotic.

The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.

To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.

able to expand or to be expanded.

increased in extent or size or bulk or scope. Opposite of contracted.

Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

same as expandable.

That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging.

To expand.

The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.

Capable of being expanded or spread out widely.

Expansible.

The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.

a quality characterized by magnificence of scale; as, the expansiveness of their extravagant lifestyle was soon curtailed.

the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure.

Expanse.

To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.

Act of expatiating.

Expansive; diffusive.

To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.

Expectation.

That may be expected or looked for.

The act of expecting; expectation.

One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace.

In conformity with expectation.

One who expects.

In a state of expectation.

Expectative.

Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. An expectorant medicine.

To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit.

Same as Expectorant.

To expedite; to hasten.

To hasten; to expedite.

The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude or principle.

That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.

Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy.

In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.

An expedient.

To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer. See also declaw.

To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.

In expedite manner; expeditiously.

Quality of being expedite.

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.

One who goes upon an expedition. [R].

Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger.

Performing with speed.

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as, to expel air from a bellows.

Capable of being expelled or driven out.

One who, or that which, expels.

any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body.

To be laid out, used, or consumed.

nonexistent or unavailable as a consequence of use or exchange.

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers.

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

Full of expense; costly; chargeable.

Without cost or expense.

Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.

Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.

One who experiences.

Experienced.

Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.

The doctrine that experience, either that of ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionalism.

One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.

To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience.

Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.

an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles.

One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter.

To make experiments (upon); to experiment.

By experiment; by experience or trial.

Relying on experiment or experience. One who relies on experiment or experience.

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.

Experimental; of the nature of experiment.

An experimenter.

One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.

An experimenter.

A waking up or arousing.

To experience.

In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.

Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.

Worthy of being wished for; desirable.

Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt.

Terminated.

The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.

An expiator.

One who makes expiation or atonement.

Of an expiatory nature; expiatory.

Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.