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  • English Word Excuse Definition To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
  • English Word Excuse Definition The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.
  • English Word Excuse Definition 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.
  • English Word Excuse Definition That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.
  • English Word Excused Definition of Excuse
  • English Word Excuseless Definition Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology.
  • English Word Excusement Definition Excuse.
  • English Word Excuser Definition One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
  • English Word Excuser Definition One who excuses or forgives another.
  • English Word Excusing Definition of Excuse
  • English Word Excuss Definition To shake off; to discard.
  • English Word Excuss Definition To inspect; to investigate; to decipher.
  • English Word Excuss Definition To seize and detain by law, as goods.
  • English Word Excussion Definition The act of excusing; seizure by law.
  • English Word Exeat Definition A license for absence from a college or a religious house.
  • English Word Exeat Definition A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
  • English Word Execrable Definition Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.
  • English Word Execrate Definition To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
  • English Word Execrated Definition of Execrate
  • English Word Execrating Definition of Execrate
  • English Word Execration Definition The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.
  • English Word Execration Definition That which is execrated; a detested thing.
  • English Word Execrative Definition Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.
  • English Word Execrative Definition A word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression.
  • English Word Execratory Definition Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory.
  • English Word Execratory Definition A formulary of execrations.
  • English Word Exect Definition To cut off or out. [Obs.] See Exsect.
  • English Word Exection Definition See Exsection.
  • English Word Executable Definition Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project.
  • English Word Executant Definition One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument.