Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: EX-TREME-LY – EX-U'BER-ANT-LY
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EX-TREME-LY, adv.
- In the utmost degree; to the utmost point. It is extremely hot or cold; it is extremely painful.
- In familiar language, very much greatly.
EX-TREM'I-TY, n. [L. extremitas.]
- The utmost point or side; the verge; the point or border that terminates a thing; as, the extremities of a country.
- The utmost parts. The extremities of the body, in painting and sculpture, are the head, hands and feet; but in anatomy, the term is applied to the limbs only. Encyc. Cyc.
- The utmost point; the highest or furthest degree; as, the extremity of pain or suffering; the extremity of cruelty. Even charity and forbearance may be carried to extremity.
- Extreme or utmost distress, straits or difficulties; as, a city besieged and reduced to extremity.
- The utmost rigor or violence. The Greeks have endured oppression in its utmost extremity.
- The most aggravated state. The world is running after farce, the extremity of bad poetry. Dryden.
EX'TRI-CA-BLE, a. [infra.]
That can be extricated.
EX'TRI-CATE, v.t. [L. extrico. The primary verb trico not in the Latin. We probably see its affinities in the Greek θριξ, τριχος, hair, or a bush of hair, from interweaving, tangling. I suspect that τρεις; and three are contracted from this root; three for threg, folded, or a plexus. The same word occurs in intricate and intrigue; Fr. tricher, to cheat; tricoter, to weave; Eng. trick; It. treccia, a lock of hair. Class Rg, No. 25.]
- Properly, to disentangle; hence, to free from difficulties or perplexities; to disembarrass; as, to extricate one from complicated business, from troublesome alliances or other connections; to extricate one's self from debt.
- To send out; to cause to be emitted or evolved.
EX'TRI-CA-TED, pp.
Disentangled; freed from difficulties and perplexities; disembarrassed; evolved.
EX'TRI-CA-TING, ppr.
Disentangling; disembarrassing; evolving.
EX-TRI-CA'TION, n.
- The act of disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.
- The act of sending out or evolving; as, the extrication of heat or moisture from a substance.
EX-TRIN'SIC, or EX-TRIN'SIC-AL, a. [L. extrinsecus.]
External; outward; not contained in or belonging to a body. Mere matter can not move without the impulse of an extrinsic agent. It is opposed to intrinsic.
EX-TRIN'SIC-AL-LY, adv.
From without; externally.
EX-TRORS'AL, a. [L. extrorsum.]
Turned from the axis to which it appertains; as anthers whose line of dehiscence is toward the petals.
EX-TRUCT', v.t. [L. extruo, extructus.]
To build; to construct. [Not in use.]
EX-TRUC'TION, n.
A building. [Not used.]
EX-TRUCT'IVE, a.
Forming into a structure. Fulke.
EX-TRUCT'OR, n.
A builder; a fabricator; a contriver. [Not used.]
EX-TRUDE, v.t. [L. extrudo; ex and trudo, to thrust. Class Rd.]
- To thrust out; to urge, force or press out; to expel; as, to extrude a fetus.
- To drive away; to drive off. Woodward.
EX-TRUD-ED, pp.
Thrust out; driven out or away; expelled.
EX-TRUD-ING, ppr.
Thrusting out; driving out; expelling.
EX-TRU'SION, n. [s as z.]
The act of thrusting or throwing out; a driving out; expulsion.
- or EX-TU'BER-AN-CY n. [L. extuberans, extubero; ex and tuber, a puff.]
- In medicine, a swelling or rising of the flesh; a protuberant part. Encyc.
- A knob or swelling part of a body. Moxon.
EX-TU'BER-ANT, a.
Swelled; standing out
EX-TU'BER-ATE, v.i. [L. extubero.]
To swell. [Not in use.]
EX-TU-MES'CENCE, n. [L. extumescens, extumesco; ex and tumesco, tumeo, to swell.]
A swelling or rising. [Little used.]
EX-U'BER-ANCE, or EX-U'BER-AN-CY, n. [L. exuberans, exubero; ex and ubero, to fatten; uber, a pap or breast, that is, a swelling or mass.]
- An abundance; an overflowing quantity; richness; as, an exuberance of fertility or fancy.
- Superfluous abundance; luxuriance.
- Overgrowth; superfluous shoots, as of trees.
EX-U'BER-ANT, a.
- Abundant; plenteous; rich; as, exuberant fertility; exuberant goodness.
- Over-abundant; superfluous; luxuriant.
- Pouring forth abundance; producing in plenty; as, exuberant spring. Thomson.
EX-U'BER-ANT-LY, adv.
Abundantly; very; copiously; in great plenty; to a superfluous degree. The earth has produced exuberantly.