AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
exculpate: to clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.
exculpation: the act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.
exculpatory: clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing.
excurrent: running or flowing out-running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top.-characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube.
excursion: a running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.-a journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.-a wandering from a subject; digression.-length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [an awkward use of the word.]
excursive: prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.
excursus: a dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.
excusable: that may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action.
excusator: one who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.
excusatory: making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.
excuse: to free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.-to pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.-to regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.-to free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.-to relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.-the act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.-that which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.-that which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.
excuser: one who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.-one who excuses or forgives another.
excuss: to shake off; to discard.-to inspect; to investigate; to decipher.-to seize and detain by law, as goods.
exeat: a license for absence from a college or a religious house.-a permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
execrable: deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.
execrate: to denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
execration: the act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.-that which is execrated; a detested thing.
execrative: cursing; imprecatory; vilifying.-a word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression.
execratory: of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory.-a formulary of execrations.
execute: to follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.-to complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.-to give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.-to infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.-too put to death illegally; to kill.-to perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly.-to do one's work; to act one's part of purpose.-to perform musically.
execution: the act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.-a putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer.-the act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music.-the carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.-a judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process.-the act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will.-that which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do.-the act of sacking a town.
executioner: one who executes; an executer.-one who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
executive: designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc.-an impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.
executor: one who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.-an executioner.-the person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.
executory: pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.-designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract.
exedra: a room in a public building, furnished with seats.-the projection of any part of a building in a rounded form.-any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form.
exegesis: exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of scripture.-the process of finding the roots of an equation.
exegetical: pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository.
exegetist: one versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete.
exemplar: a model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.-a copy of a book or writing.-exemplary.
exemplarily: in a manner fitted or designed to be an example for imitation or for warning; by way of example.
exemplary: serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.-serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.-illustrating as the proof of a thing.-an exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.
exemplification: the act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.-that which exemplifies; a case in point; example.-a copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original.
exemplify: to show or illustrate by example.-to copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record.-to prove or show by an attested copy.
exempt: cut off; set apart.-extraordinary; exceptional.-free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.-one exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.-one of four officers of the yeomen of the royal guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.-to remove; to set apart.-to release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.
exemption: the act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc.
exenterate: to take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes.
exequatur: a written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned.-official recognition or permission.
exequy: a funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.
exercise: the act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.-exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.-bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.-the performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.-that which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.-that which gives practice; a trial; a test.-to set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.-to exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.-to occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.-to put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.-to exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.
exercisible: capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.
exergue: the small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. it usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter.
exert: to thrust forth; to emit; to push out.-to put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.-to put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.
exertion: the act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day.
exestuate: to be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
exeunt: they go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except hamlet. see 1st exit.
exfetation: imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra-uterine fetation.
exfoliate: to separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.-to split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.-to remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of.
exfoliation: the scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.
exfoliative: having the power of causing exfoliation.-an exfoliative agent.
exhalation: the act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.-that which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.-a bright phenomenon; a meteor.
exhale: to breathe out. hence: to emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.-to draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth.-to rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.
exhaust: to draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.-to empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.-to drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.-to bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.-to subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.-drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.-pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.-the steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.-the foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
exhaustion: the act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.-the state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.-an ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. it was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.
exhaustive: serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method.
exhaustless: not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
exhibit: to hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery.-to submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge.-to administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.-any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked a; the english exhibit.-a document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.
exhibition: the act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display.-that which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition.-sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. specifically: (eng. univ.) private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars.-the act of administering a remedy.
exhilarant: exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure.-that which exhilarates.
exhilarate: to make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.-to become joyous.
exhilaration: the act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.-the state of being enlivened or cheerful.
exhort: to incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.-to deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.-exhortation.
exhortation: the act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.-language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.
exhumation: the act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.
exhume: to dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
exigency: the state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency.
exigent: exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.-exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.-the name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
exigenter: an officer in the court of king's bench and common pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. the office in now abolished.
exile: forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.-the person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.-to banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.-small; slender; thin; fine.
exilic: pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the jews in babylon.
exility: smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.
exist: to be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.-to be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.-to live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
existence: the state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence.-continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war.-that which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.
exit: he (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit macbeth.-the departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.-any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit.-a way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.
exo: a prefix signifying out of, outside; as in exocarp, exogen, exoskeleton.
exocardial: situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.
exocarp: the outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. see illust. of drupe.
exoccipital: pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull.-the exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young.
exocoetus: a genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. see flying fish.
exode: departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the israelites from egypt.-the final chorus; the catastrophe.-an afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.
exodic: conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. opposed to esodic.
exodus: a going out; particularly (the exodus), the going out or journey of the israelites from egypt under the conduct of moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.-the second of the old testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the israelites from egypt.
exogamous: relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.
exogamy: the custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.
exogen: a plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. the leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl.  cf. endogen.
exogenous: pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.-growing by addition to the exterior.-growing from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to autogenous.
exon: a native or inhabitant of exeter, in england.-an officer of the yeomen of the guard; an exempt.
exonerate: to unload; to disburden; to discharge.-to relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice.-to discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball.
exoneration: the act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
exophthalmia: the protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.
exophthalmic: of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.
exoptile: a name given by lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.
exorbitancy: a going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands.
exorbitant: departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.-not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
exorbitantly: in an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
exorcise: to cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one.-to deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
exorcism: the act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.-conjuration for raising spirits.
exorcist: one who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.-a conjurer who can raise spirits.
exordium: a beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration.
exorhiza: a plant whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.
exorhizous: having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.
exoskeletal: pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles.
exoskeleton: the hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.
exosmose: the passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. see osmose.
exostome: the small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.
exostosis: any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.-a knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.