Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-PUGN-ER, n.

One who subdues. Sherwood.

EX-PULSE, v.t. [expuls'; Fr. expulser, from L. expulsus, expello; ex and pello, to drive.]

To drive out; to expel. [Little used.] Shak. Bacon.

EX-PUL'SION, n.

1. The act of driving out or expelling; a driving away by violence; as, the expulsion of the thirty tyrants from Athens, or of Adam from Paradise.
2. The state of being driven out or away.

EX-PUL'SIVE, a.

Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel. Wiseman.

EX-PUNC'TION, n. [See Expunge.]

The act of expunging; the act of blotting out or erasing. Milton.

EX-PUNGE, v.t. [expunj'; L. expungo; ex and pungo, to thrust, to prick.]

1. To blot out, as with a pen; to rub out; to efface, as words; to obliterate. We expunge single words or whole lines or sentences.
2. To efface; to strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expunge an offense. Sandys. Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts. Pope.

EX-PUN'GED, pp.

Blotted out; obliterated; destroyed.

EX-PUNG'ING, ppr.

Blotting out; erasing; effacing; destroying.

EX'PUR-GATE, v.t. [L. expurgo; ex and purgo, to cleanse.]

To purge; cleanse; to purify from any thing noxious, offensive or erroneous. Faber.

EX'PUR-GA-TED, pp.

Purged; cleansed; purified.

EX'PUR-GA-TING, ppr.

Purging; cleansing; purifying.

EX-PUR-GA'TION, n.

1. The act of purging or cleansing; evacuation. Wiseman.
2. A cleansing; purification from any thing noxious, offensive, sinful or erroneous. Brown.

EX'PUR-GA-TOR, n.

One who expurgates or purifies.

EX-PUR-GA-TO'RI-OUS, a.

That expurgates, or expunges. Milton.

EX-PUR'GA-TO-RY, a.

Cleansing; purifying; serving to purify from any thing noxious or erroneous; as, the expurgatory index of the Romanists, which directs the expunction of passages of authors contrary to their creed or principles. Expurgatory animadversions. Brown.

EX-PURGE, v.t. [expurj'; L. expurgo.]

To purge away. [Not in use.] Milton.

EX-QUIRE, v.t. [L. exquiro.]

To search into or out. [Not in use.] Sandys.

EX'QUI-SITE, a. [s as z. L. exquisitus, from exquiro; ex and quæro, to seek.]

1. Literally, sought out or searched for with care; whence, choice; select. Hence,
2. Nice; exact; very excellent; complete; as, a vase of exquisite workmanship.
3. Nice; accurate; capable of nice perception; as, exquisite sensibility.
4. Nice; accurate; capable of nice discrimination; as, exquisite judgment, taste or discernment.
5. Being in the highest degree; extreme; as, to relish pleasure in an exquisite degree. So we say, exquisite pleasure or pain. The most exquisite of human satisfactions flows from an approving conscience. J. M. Mason.
6. Very sensibly felt; as, a partial and exquisite impression on the nerves. Cheyne.

EX'QUI-SITE-LY, adv.

1. Nicely; accurately; with great perfection; as, a work exquisitely finished; exquisitely written.
2. With keen sensation or with nice perception. We feel pain more exquisitely when nothing diverts our attention from it. We see more exquisitely with one eye shut. Bacon.

EX'QUI-SITE-NESS, n.

1. Nicety; exactness; accuracy; completeness; perfection; as, the exquisiteness of workmanship.
2. Keenness; sharpness; extremity; as, the exquisiteness of pain or grief.

EX-QUIS'I-TIVE, a.

Curious; eager to discover. [Not in use.]

EX-QUIS'I-TIVE-LY, adv.

Curiously; minutely. [Not in use.] Sidney.

EX-REP-RE-SENT'A-TIVE, n.

One who has been formerly a representative, but is no longer one.

EX-SAN'GUI-OUS, a. [L. exsanguis; ex and sanguis, blood.]

Destitute of blood, or rather of red blood, as an animal. Encyc.

EX-SCIND', v.t. [L. exscindo.]

To cut off. [Little used.]