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.

The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.

An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.

A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor.

Extension.

Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity.

Thin; slender.

serving or tending to reduce the severity of guilt or blameworthiness; as, extenuating circumstances.

The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.

One who extenuates.

Tending to extenuate or palliate.

The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.

same as exteriorization.

Surface; superficies; externality.

embodying in an outward form.

Outwardly; externally; on the exterior.

capable of being totally destroyed or wiped out.

To drive out or away; to expel.

destroyed completely.

The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

One who, or that which, exterminates.

Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate.

To exterminate; to destroy.

A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.

a person affiliated with an institution who does not reside there; a doctor or medical student who is in attendance upon, or is assisting at, a hospital, but who does not reside in it.

Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; -- usually in the plural.

embodying in an outward form.

to make external.

The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals.

Pertaining to externalism.

State of being external; exteriority separation from the perceiving mind.

To make external; to manifest by outward form.

In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.

Foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad.

Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction.

The state of being beyond the limits of a country.

The act of wiping or rubbing out.

To drop or distill.

Distillation.

To stimulate.

Stimulation.

To cause to be extinct.

The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.

To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.

Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed.

caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement; -- of a conditioned response.

One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.

The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.

To extirpate.

Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant.

To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.

Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out.

One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.

Extirpative.

Extirpator.

Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication.

Exogenous.

To place on high; to lift up; to elevate.

One who extols; one who praises.

Praise.

Serving or tending to extort.

Extorted.

One who practices extortion.

The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge.

Extortionate.

Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.

One who practices extortion; an extortionist.

One who practices extortion.

Extortionate.

Something in addition to what is due, expected, or customary; esp., an added charge or fee, or something for which an additional charge is made; as, at some hotels air conditioning is an extra.

Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antenn/ of certain insects.

Not prescribed by official duty.

Outside of the uterus, or womb.

Situated outside of a joint.

Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.

Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.

Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.

located or occurring outside of a living cell or cells; as, extracellular fluid. Opposite of intracellular.

That which is extracted or drawn out.

Capable of being extracted.

Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.

The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.

Anything extracted; an extract.

One who, or that which, extracts A forceps or instrument for extracting substances. A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.

Consisting not in words, but in realities.

Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.

To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.

The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.

The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados.