Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-HORT'ING, ppr.

Inciting to good deeds by words or arguments; encouraging; counseling.

EX-HU'MA-TED, pp.

Disinterred.

EX-HU-MA'TION, n. [Fr. from exhumer, to dig out of the ground; Sp. exhumar; L. ex and humus, ground.]

1. The digging up of a dead body interred; the disinterring of a corpse.
2. The digging up of any thing buried. Goldsmith.

EX-HUME', v.t. [L. ex and humus.]

To dig out of the earth, what has been buried; to disinter. Mantell.

EX-HUM'ED, pp.

Disinterred.

EX-HUM'ING, ppr.

Disinterring.

EX'IC-CATE, or EX-IC-CA'TION, v. [See EXSICCATE.]

EX'I-GENCE, or EX'I-GEN-CY, n. [L. exigens, from exigo, to exact; ex and ago, to drive.]

1. Demand; urgency; urgent need or want. We speak of the exigence of the case; the exigence of the times, or of business.
2. Pressing necessity; distress; any case which demands immediate action, supply or remedy. A wise man adapts his measures to his exigences. In the present exigency, no time is to be lost.

EX'I-GENT, a.

Pressing; requiring immediate aid or action. Burke.

EX'I-GENT, n.

1. Pressing business; occasion that calls for immediate help. [Not used. See Exigence.] Hooker.
2. In law, a writ which lies where the defendant is not to be found, or after a return of non est inventus on former writs, the exigent or exigi facias then issues, which requires the sherif to cause the defendant to be proclaimed or exacted, in five county courts successively, to render himself; and if he does not, he is outlawed. Blackstone.
3. End; extremity. [Not used.] Shak.

EX'I-GENT-ER, n.

An officer in the court of common pleas in England who makes out exigents and proclamations, in cases of outlawry. Encyc.

EX'I-GI-BLE, a. [See Exigence.]

That may be exacted; demandable; requirable.

EX-I-GU'ITY, n. [L. exiguitas.]

Smallness; slenderness. [Little used.] Boyle.

EX-IG'U-OUS, a. [L. exiguus.]

Small; slender; minute; diminutive. [Little used.] Harvey.

EX'ILE, a. [egszil; L. exilis.]

Slender; thin; fine. Bacon.

EX'ILE, n. [eg'zīle; L. exilium, exul; Fr. exil; It. esilio. The word is probably compounded of ex and a root in Sl, signifying to depart, or to cut off; to separate, or to thrust away, perhaps L. salio.]

1. Banishment; the state of being expelled from one's native country or place of residence by authority, and forbid to return, either for a limited time or for perpetuity.
2. An abandonment of one's country, or removal to a foreign country for residence, through fear, disgust or resentment, or for any cause distinct from business, is called a voluntary exile, as is also a separation from one's country and friends by distress or necessity.
3. The person banished, or expelled from his country by authority; also, one who abandons his country and resides in another; or one who is separated from his country and friends by necessity.

EX'ILE, v.t.

1. To banish, as, a person from his country or from a particular jurisdiction by authority, with a prohibition of return; to drive away, expel or transport from one's country.
2. To drive from one's country by misfortune, necessity or distress. To exile one's self, is to quit one's country with a view not to return.

EX'IL-ED, pp.

Banished; expelled from one's country by authority.

EX'ILE-MENT, n.

Banishment.

EX'IL-ING, ppr.

Banishing; expelling from one's country by law, edict or sentence; voluntarily departing from one's country, and residing in another.

EX-I-LI'TION, n. [L. exilio, for exsalio, to leap out.]

A sudden springing or leaping out. [Little used.] Brown.

EX-IL'I-TY, n. [L. exilitas.]

Slenderness; fineness; thinness.

EX-IM'I-OUS, a. [L. eximius.]

Excellent. [Little used.] Bacon.

EX-IN'A-NITE, v.t. [L. exinanio.]

To make empty; to weaken. [Not used.] Pearson.

EX-IN-A-NI'TION, n. [L. exinanitio, from exinanio, to empty or evacuate; ex and inanio, to empty, inanis, empty, void.]

An emptying or evacuation; hence, privation; loss; destitution. [Little used.]