AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
ex parte: upon or from one side only; one-sided; partial; as, an ex parte statement.
ex postfacto: from or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective.
ex-: a prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. in some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. it becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. the form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. in words from the french it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or e-; as, escape, scape, elite.  ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. the greek form 'ex becomes ex in english, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric.
exacerbate: to render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.
exacerbation: the act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.-a periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.
exacerbescence: increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.
exact: precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.-habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings i was exact.-precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.-to demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.-to practice exaction.
exacting: of exact-oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
exaction: the act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.-that which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.
exactly: in an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.
exactness: the condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.-careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business.
exactor: one who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands.
exaeresis: in old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.
exaggerate: to heap up; to accumulate.-to amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.
exaggeration: the act of heaping or piling up.-the act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.-a representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
exagitate: to stir up; to agitate.-to satirize; to censure severely.
exalt: to raise high; to elevate; to lift up.-to elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.-to elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.-to lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.-to elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.-to render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.
exaltation: the act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.-the refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.-that place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.
exalted: of exalt-raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime.
examination: the act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.-a process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.
examine: to test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.-to interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc.
examiner: one who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.
example: one or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.-that which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.-that which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.-that which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.-an instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and   grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.-to set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.
exanimate: lifeless; dead.-destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.-to deprive of animation or of life.
exannulate: having the sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns.
exanthema: an efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.
exanthematous: of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.
exarch: a viceroy; in ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the byzantine emperors; in the eastern church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern greek church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.
exarillate: having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.
exasperate: exasperated; imbittered.-to irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.-to make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity.
exasperater: one who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.
exasperation: the act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.-increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation.
exaspidean: having the anterior scute/ extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; -- said of certain birds.
exaugurate: to annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow.
excandescence: a growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence.-violent anger; a growing angry.
excarnation: the act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.
excarnification: the act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation.
excavate: to hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.-to form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.-to dig out and remove, as earth.
excavation: the act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.-a cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.-an uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.-the material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
excavator: one who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.
exceed: to go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.-to go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.-to be more or greater; to be paramount.
exceeding: of exceed-more than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless.-in a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly.
exceedingly: to a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. it signifies more than very.
excel: to go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.-to exceed or go beyond; to surpass.-to surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.
excellence: the quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.-an excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.-a title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.
excellency: excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.-a title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to english colonial governors, etc. it was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.
excellent: excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action.-superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance.-excellently; eminently; exceedingly.
excellently: in an excellent manner; well in a high degree.-in a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness.
excelsior: more lofty; still higher; ever upward.-a kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.
excentrical: same as eccentric, eccentrical.-one-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center.
except: to take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.-to object to; to protest against.-to take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.-with exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.-unless; if it be not so that.
exception: the act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.-that which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.-an objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted.-an objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
exceptional: forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.
excern: to excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.
excerpt: to select; to extract; to cite; to quote.-an extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.
excerption: the act of excerpting or selecting.-that which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
excess: the state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.-an undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.-the degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
exchange: the act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.-the act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views.-the thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another.-the process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. these may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. the term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.-a mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple.-the place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. in this sense often contracted to 'change.-to part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received.-to part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell.-to give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats.-to be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.
exchangeable: capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.-available for making exchanges; ratable.
exchequer: one of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.-the department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [eng.] hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low.-to institute a process against (any one) in the court of exchequer.
excipient: taking an exception.-an exceptor.-an inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents.
excisable: liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity.
excise: in inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. it is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. certain direct taxes (as, in england, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.-that department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.-to lay or impose an excise upon.-to impose upon; to overcharge.-to cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
excision: the act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.-the act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.-the removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.
excitability: the quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.-the property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.
excitable: capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
excitant: tending to excite; exciting.-an agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.
excitation: the act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.-the act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
excitative: having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.
excite: to call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.-to call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
exciteful: full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players.
excitement: the act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.-that which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.-a state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.
exciting: calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.
excitive: serving or tending to excite; excitative.-that which excites; an excitant.
excito-motor: excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes.
excito-motory: exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.
excito-nutrient: exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
excito-secretory: exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
exclaim: to cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "the field is won!" he exclaimed.-outcry; clamor.
exclamation: a loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.-a word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.-a mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point.
exclamatory: containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker.
exclave: a portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.
exclude: to shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.-to thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
exclusion: the act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.-the act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.-thing emitted.
exclusionist: one who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of charles ii.
exclusive: having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.-not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.-one of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.
excogitate: to think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.-to cogitate.
excogitation: the act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
excommunicable: liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper.
excommunicate: excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.-one excommunicated.-to put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.-to lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
excommunication: the act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
excoriation: the act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.-stripping of possession; spoliation.
excortication: the act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.
excreate: to spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
excrement: matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.-an excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.
excrementitious: pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.
excrescence: an excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant.
excrescent: growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
excretin: a nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human faeces.
excretion: the act of excreting.-that which is excreted; excrement.
excretory: having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
excruciate: excruciated; tortured.-to inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.
excruciation: the act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.