Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.