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- English Word Ex postfacto Definition From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective.
- English Word Ex- Definition A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or e-; as, escape, scape, elite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The Greek form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric.
- English Word Ex-official Definition Proceeding from office or authority.
- English Word Ex-voto Definition An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.
- English Word Ex-votos Definition of Ex-voto
- English Word Exacerbate Definition To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.
- English Word Exacerbation Definition The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.
- English Word Exacerbation Definition A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.
- English Word Exacerbescence Definition Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.
- English Word Exacerrated Definition of Exacerbate
- English Word Exacerrating Definition of Exacerbate
- English Word Exacervation Definition The act of heaping up.
- English Word Exacinate Definition To remove the kernel form.
- English Word Exacination Definition Removal of the kernel.
- English Word Exacritude Definition The quality of being exact; exactness.
- English Word Exact Definition Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.
- English Word Exact Definition Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.
- English Word Exact Definition Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
- English Word Exact Definition To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.
- English Word Exact Definition To practice exaction.
- English Word Exacted Definition of Exact
- English Word Exacter Definition An exactor.
- English Word Exacting Definition of Exact
- English Word Exacting Definition Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
- English Word Exaction Definition The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.
- English Word Exaction Definition That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.
- English Word Exactly Definition In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.
- English Word Exactness Definition The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.
- English Word Exactness Definition Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business.
- English Word Exactor Definition One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands.