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- English Word Exciting Definition Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.
- English Word Excitive Definition Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
- English Word Excitive Definition That which excites; an excitant.
- English Word Excito-motion Definition Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
- English Word Excito-motor Definition Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes.
- English Word Excito-motory Definition Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.
- English Word Excito-nutrient Definition Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
- English Word Excito-secretory Definition Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
- English Word Exclaim Definition To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.
- English Word Exclaim Definition Outcry; clamor.
- English Word Exclaimed Definition of Exclaim
- English Word Exclaimer Definition One who exclaims.
- English Word Exclaiming Definition of Exclaim
- English Word Exclamation Definition A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
- English Word Exclamation Definition A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
- English Word Exclamation Definition A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point.
- English Word Exclamative Definition Exclamatory.
- English Word Exclamatory Definition Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker.
- English Word Exclave Definition A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.
- English Word Exclude Definition To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
- English Word Exclude Definition To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
- English Word Excluded Definition of Exclude
- English Word Excluding Definition of Exclude
- English Word Exclusion Definition 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.
- English Word Exclusion Definition The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.
- English Word Exclusion Definition Thing emitted.
- English Word Exclusionary Definition Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.
- English Word Exclusionism Definition The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist.
- English Word Exclusionist Definition One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles II.
- English Word Exclusive Definition 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.