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- English Word Exception Definition An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted.
- English Word Exception Definition An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
- English Word Exceptionable Definition Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
- English Word Exceptional Definition Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.
- English Word Exceptioner Definition One who takes exceptions or makes objections.
- English Word Exceptionless Definition Without exception.
- English Word Exceptious Definition Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious.
- English Word Exceptive Definition That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition.
- English Word Exceptless Definition Not exceptional; usual.
- English Word Exceptor Definition One who takes exceptions.
- English Word Excerebration Definition The act of removing or beating out the brains.
- English Word Excerebrose Definition Brainless.
- English Word Excern Definition To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.
- English Word Excernent Definition Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.
- English Word Excerp Definition To pick out.
- English Word Excerpt Definition To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.
- English Word Excerpt Definition An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.
- English Word Excerpted Definition of Excerpt
- English Word Excerpting Definition of Excerpt
- English Word Excerption Definition The act of excerpting or selecting.
- English Word Excerption Definition That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
- English Word Excerptive Definition That excerpts, selects, or chooses.
- English Word Excerptor Definition One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.
- English Word Excess Definition 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.
- English Word Excess Definition An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
- English Word Excess Definition 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.
- English Word Excessive Definition Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.
- English Word Exchange Definition The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.
- English Word Exchange Definition The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views.
- English Word Exchange Definition The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another.