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.

The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.

One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager.

That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.

One who expires or is expiring.

The act of expiring The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.

bearing a date after which it is no longer valid or salable; -- of a security, option, or perishable item.

Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.

To emit the breath.

having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; as, an expired passport; caught driving with an expired license. Opposite of unexpired.

Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

Expiration.

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.

The act of expiscating; a fishing.

Tending to fish out; searching out

To give an explanation.

Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.

One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.

The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

Explanatory.

The quality of being explanatory.

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

To explain; to unfold.

Accomplishment; fulfillment.

In the manner of an expletive.

Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word.

Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

Quality of being explicable.

To unfold; to expand; to lay open.

The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.

Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.

One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

Explicative.

Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration. Opposite of implicit.

In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.

The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.

An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.

One who or that which explodes.

A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

The act of exploiting or utilizing.

tending to exploit or make use of.

The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement.

That may be explored; as, an explorable region.

To explore.

The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries physical examination.

Exploratory.

One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher.

Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative.

To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

The act of exploring; exploration.

One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.

Employed in, or designed for, exploration.

The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp, etc.

An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, TNT, dynamite, or nitro-glycerine.

In an explosive manner.

See Exspoliation.

To polish thoroughly.

To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil.

A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated

Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function.

the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power.

The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.

The quality or state of being suitable for exportation.

Suitable for exportation; as, exportable products.

The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce.

One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer.

Exposure.

A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.

with no protection or shield; as, the exposed northeast frontier.

The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.

One who exposes or discloses.

to set forth reasons; to explain or expound.

The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

Serving to explain; expository.

One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator.

Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.

To discuss; to examine.

The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion.

One who expostulates.

Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.

Exposure.

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.

To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.