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.

One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.

To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit.

The charge for carrying a parcel by express.

Communicated in words.

Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered.

The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.

Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea or sentiment.

an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized.

an artist who is an adherent of expressionism.

of or pertaining to expressionism (definition 2); as, expressionist art.

Destitute of expression.

Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude.

the quality of being expressive.

In an express manner; in direct terms; with distinct purpose; particularly; as, a book written expressly for the young.

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon.

The state or quality of being express; definiteness.

The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation.

To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid.

Reproachful accusation; upbraiding.

Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful.

To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.

taken out of the possession of another and transferred to one's own use often without permission; as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.

The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights.

To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.

Capable of being expugned.

The act of taking by assault; conquest.

One who expugns.

To drive out; to expel.

An expeller.

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.

The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged.

To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

deletion by an act of expunging or erasing.

To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

having material deleted; -- of books; as, at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions.

The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.

One who expurgates or purifies.

Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory.

Expurgatory.

Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.

To purge away.

To search into or out.

One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.

In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought.

Quality of being exquisite.

Eager to discover or learn; curious.

Bloodless.

Destitute of blood; an/mic; exsanguious.

Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora.

See Exsanguious.

Destitute of blood.

To copy; to transcribe.

A copy; a transcript.

Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural.

Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects.

A cutting out or away.

To thrust out; to protrude; as, some worms are said to exsert the proboscis.

Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens.

Capable of being thrust out or protruded.

Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up. An exsiccant medicine.

To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.

The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.

Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.

An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.

A leaping out.

Relaxation.

Spoliation.

A discharge of saliva by spitting.

Spit out, or as if spit out.

Having no stipules.

The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.

Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham.

The act of sucking out.

Exudation.

To exorcise or renounce by blowing.

A blast from beneath.

Empty; frivolous.

To rouse; to excite.

A stirring up; a rousing.

See Ecstasy.

Outward existence.

The state of rising above others; a projection.

Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

See Ecstasy, n. v. t.

See Ecstatic, a.

Extemporaneous; unpremeditated.

Extemporaneous.

Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; ad-lib; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production.

Extemporaneously.

Extemporaneous.

Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore. Done or performed extempore. Speaking or writing done extempore.

The quality of being done or devised extempore

The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.

To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc.

One who extemporizes.

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

Displaced.

In an extended manner.

One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.

Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.

Unlimited extension.

Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.

The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.

Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible.

Extensibility.

Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible.

The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.

Having great extent.

One who favors or advocates extension.

Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.

To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.