Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-CLUD'ING, ppr.

Ejecting; hindering from entering; debarring; not comprehending.

EX-CLU'SION, n. [s as z.]

1. The act of excluding, or of thrusting out; ejection; as, the exclusion of a fetus.
2. The act of denying entrance or admission; a shutting out.
3. The act of debarring from participation in a privilege, benefit, use or enjoyment. Burnet.
4. Rejection; non-reception or admission, in a general sense. Addison.
5. Exception. Bacon.
6. Ejection; that which is emitted or thrown out. Brown.

EX-CLU'SION-IST, n.

One who would preclude another from some privilege. Fox.

EX-CLU'SIVE, a.

1. Having the power of preventing entrance; as, exclusive bars. Milton.
2. Debarring from participation; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, an exclusive privilege.
3. Not taking into the account; not including or comprehending; as, the general had five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery and cavalry. He sent me all the numbers from 78 to 94 exclusive; that is, all the numbers between 78 and 94, but these numbers, the first and the last, are excepted or not included.

EX-CLU'SIVE-LY, adv.

1. Without admission of others to participation; with the exclusion of all others; as, to enjoy a privilege exclusively.
2. Without comprehension in an account or number; not inclusively.

EX-CLU'SIVE-NESS, n.

State of being exclusive.

EX-CLU'SIV-ISM, n.

Act or practice of excluding.

EX-CLU'SO-RY, a.

Exclusive; excluding; able to exclude. [Little used.] Walsh.

EX-COCT', v.t. [L. excoctus.]

To boil. [Not in use.] Bacon.

EX-COG'I-TA-TE, v.t. [L. excogito; ex and cogito, to think.]

To invent; to strike out by thinking; to contrive. More. Hale.

EX-COG'I-TA-TED, pp.

Contrived; struck out in thought.

EX-COG'I-TA-TING, ppr.

Contriving.

EX-COG-I-TA'TION, n.

Invention; contrivance; the act of devising in the thoughts.

EX-COM'MIS-SA-RY, n. [ex and commissary.]

A commissary dismissed from office; one formerly a commissary.

EX-COM-MUNE', v.t.

To exclude. [Not used.] Gayton.

EX-COM-MU'NI-CA-BLE, a. [See Excommunicate.]

Liable or deserving to be excommunicated. Hooker.

EX-COM-MU'NI-CATE, n.

One who is excommunicated. Carew.

EX-COM-MU'NI-CA-TE, v.t. [L. ex and communico.]

To expel from communion; to eject from the communion of the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence, and deprive of spiritual advantages; as, to excommunicate notorious offenders.

EX-COM-MU'NI-CA-TED, pp.

Expelled or separated from communion with a church, and a participation of its ordinances, rights and privileges.

EX-COM-MU'NI-CA-TING, ppr.

Expelling or separated from the communion of a church, and depriving of spiritual advantages, by an ecclesiastical sentence or decree.

EX-COM-MU-NI-CA'TION, n.

The act of ejecting from a church; expulsion from the communion of a church, and deprivation of its rights, privileges and advantages; an ecclesiastical penalty or punishment inflicted on offenders. Excommunication is an ecclesiastical interdict, of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension of the offender from partaking of the eucharist; the greater is an absolute separation and exclusion of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages. Encyc.

EX-CONCESSO, a. [L. Ex concesso.]

From that which is conceded.

EX-CO'RI-ATE, v.t. [Low L. excorio; ex and corium, skin, hide.]

To flay; to strip or wear off the skin; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

EX-CO'RI-A-TED, pp.

Flayed; galled; stripped of the skin or the cuticle.

EX-CO'RI-A-TING, ppr.

Flaying; galling; stripping of the cuticle.