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Definition & Synonyms
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• Excalfactory
- (a.) Heating; warming.
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• Excess
- (n.) The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
- (n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
- (n.) The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
Synonyms:
Extra, Redundant, Spare, Supererogatory, Superfluous, Supernumerary, Surfeit, Surplus, Surplusage,
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• Excito-secretory
- (a.) Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
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• Excrementize
- (v. i.) To void excrement.
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• Excuse
- (v. t.) To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.
- (v. t.) To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.
- (v. t.) That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.
- (v. t.) The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.
- (v. t.) To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
- (v. t.) To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.
- (v. t.) That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.
- (v. t.) To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.
Synonyms:
Alibi, Apologize, Apology, Condone, Exculpation, Exempt, Explain, Justify, Pardon, Rationalize, Relieve,
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• Excalfaction
- (n.) A heating or warming; calefaction.
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• Exceedable
- (a.) Capable of exceeding or surpassing.
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• Exciteful
- (n.) Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players.
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• Exclusion
- (n.) The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.
- (n.) The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.
- (n.) Thing emitted.
Synonyms:
Censure, Ejection, Exception, Excommunication, Expulsion, Riddance,
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• Exclusive
- (n.) One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.
- (a.) Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.
- (a.) Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.
Synonyms:
Scoop, Single, Sole, Undivided,
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