1. To pardon; to free from the imputation of fault or blame; to acquit of guilt. We excuse a person in our own minds, when we acquit him of guilt or blame; or we excuse him by a declaration of that acquital. NWAD EXCUSE.2
2. To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook. We excuse a fault, which admits of apology or extenuation; and we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it. NWAD EXCUSE.3
3. To free from an obligation or duty. NWAD EXCUSE.4
I pray thee have me excused. Luke 14:18, 19. NWAD EXCUSE.5
4. To remit; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture. NWAD EXCUSE.6
5. To pardon; to admit an apology for. NWAD EXCUSE.7
Excuse some courtly strains. NWAD EXCUSE.8
6. To throw off an imputation by apology. NWAD EXCUSE.9
Think you that we excuse ourselves to you? 2 Corinthians 12:19. NWAD EXCUSE.10
7. To justify; to vindicate. NWAD EXCUSE.11
Their thoughts accusing or else excusing one another. Romans 2:15. NWAD EXCUSE.12
1. The act of excusing or apologizing. NWAD EXCUSE.14
2. That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault. His inability to comply with the request must be his excuse. NWAD EXCUSE.15
1. One who excuses or forgives another. NWAD EXCUSER.2
Deserving to be cursed; very hateful; destable; abominable; as an execrable wretch. NWAD EXECRABLE.2
Literally, to curse; to denounce evil agianst, or to imprecate evil on; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. NWAD EXECRATE.2
Cease, gentle queen, these execrations: NWAD EXECRATION.2
1. Literally, to follow out or through. Hence, to perform; to do; to effect; to carry into complete effect; to complete; to finish. We execute a purpose, a plan, design or scheme; we execute a work undertaken, that is, we pursue it to the end. NWAD EXECUTE.2
2. To perform; to inflict; as, to execute judgment or vengeance. NWAD EXECUTE.3
3. To carry into effect; as, to execute law or justice. NWAD EXECUTE.4
4. To carry into effect the law, or the judgment or sentence on a person; to inflict capital punishment on; to put to death; as, to execute a traitor. NWAD EXECUTE.5
5. To kill. NWAD EXECUTE.6
6. To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to a writing, as by signing and sealing; as, to execute a deed or lease. NWAD EXECUTE.7
The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution. NWAD EXECUTION.2
1. In law, the carrying into effect a sentence or judgment of court; the last act of the law in completing the process by which justice is to be done, by which the possession of land or debt, damages or cost, is obtained, or by which judicial punishment is inflicted. NWAD EXECUTION.3
2. The instrument, warrant or official order, by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect. An execution issues from the clerk of a court, and is levied by a sheriff, his deputy or a constable, on the estate, goods or body of the debtor. NWAD EXECUTION.4
3. The act of signing and sealing a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it a valid act; as the execution of a deed. NWAD EXECUTION.5
4. The last act of the law in the punishment of criminals; capital punishment; death inflicted according to the forms of law. NWAD EXECUTION.6
5. Effect; something done or accomplished. NWAD EXECUTION.7
Every shot did execution. NWAD EXECUTION.8
6. Destruction; slaughter. NWAD EXECUTION.9
It is used after do, to do execution; never after make. NWAD EXECUTION.10
7. Performance, as in music or other art. NWAD EXECUTION.11
1. He that kills; he that murders. NWAD EXECUTIONER.2
2. The instrument by which any thing is performed. NWAD EXECUTIONER.3
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive, at the expense of the legislative authority. NWAD EXECUTIVE.2
Men most desirous of places in the executive gift, will not expect to be gratified, except by their support of the executive. NWAD EXECUTIVE.4
1. In law, to be executed or carried into effect in future; to take effect on a future contingency; as an executory devise or remainder. NWAD EXECUTORY.2
1. Exposition; explanation; interpretation. NWAD EXEGESIS.2
2. A discourse intended to explain or illustrate a subject. NWAD EXEGESIS.3
1. A model, original or pattern, to be copies or imitated. NWAD EXEMPLAR.2
2. The idea or image of a thing, formed in the mind or an artist, by which he conducts his work; the ideal model which he attempts to imitate. NWAD EXEMPLAR.3
She is exemplarily loyal. NWAD EXEMPLARILY.2
1. In a manner that may warn others, by way of terror; in such a manner that others may be cautioned to avoid an evil; or in a manner intended to warn others. NWAD EXEMPLARILY.3
Some he punished exemplarily in this world. NWAD EXEMPLARILY.4
1. Such as may serve for a warning to others; such as may deter from crimes or vices; as exemplary justice; exemplary punishment. NWAD EXEMPLARY.2
2. Such as may attract notice and imitation. NWAD EXEMPLARY.3
When any duty has fallen into general neglect, the most visible and exemplary performance is required. NWAD EXEMPLARY.4
3. Illustrating. NWAD EXEMPLARY.5
1. The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example. NWAD EXEMPLIFICATION.2
2. A copy; a transcript; an attested copy; as an exemplification of a deed, or of letters patent. NWAD EXEMPLIFICATION.3
1. To show or illustrate by example. The life and conversation of our Savior exemplified his doctrines and precepts. NWAD EXEMPLIFY.2
2. To copy; to transcribe; to take an attested copy. NWAD EXEMPLIFY.3
3. To prove or show by an attested copy. NWAD EXEMPLIFY.4
Literally, to take out or from; hence, to free, or permit to be free, from any charge, burden, restraint, duty, evil or requisition, to which others are subject; to privilege; to grant immunity from. Officers and students of colleges are exempted from military duty. No man is exempted from pain and suffering. The laws of God exempt no man from the obligation to obedience. NWAD EXEMPT.2
Certain abbeys claimed to be exempted from the jurisdiction of their bishops. NWAD EXEMPT.3
1. Free by privilege; as exempt from the jurisdiction of a lord or of a court. NWAD EXEMPT.5
2. Free; clear; not included. NWAD EXEMPT.6
3. Cut off from. [Not used.] NWAD EXEMPT.7
1. Freedom from any service, charge, burden, tax, evil or requisition, to which others are subject; immunity; privilege. Many cities of Europe purchased or obtained exemptions from feudal servitude. No man can claim an exemption from pain, sorrow or death. NWAD EXEMPTION.2
To take out the bowels or entrails; to embowel. NWAD EXENTERATE.2
Funeral rites; the ceremonies of burial; funeral procession. NWAD EXEQUIES.2
In a general sense, any kind of work, labor or exertion of body. Hence, NWAD EXERCISE.2
1. Use; practice; the exertions and movements customary in the performance of business; as the exercise of an art, trade, occupation, or profession. NWAD EXERCISE.3
2. Practice; performance; as the exercise of religion. NWAD EXERCISE.4
3. Use; employment; exertion; as the exercise of the eyes or of the senses, or of any power of body or mind. NWAD EXERCISE.5
4. Exertion of the body, as conducive to health; action; motion, by labor, walking, riding, or other exertion. NWAD EXERCISE.6
The wise for cure on exercise depend. NWAD EXERCISE.7
5. Exertion of the body for amusement, or for instruction; the habitual use of the limbs for acquiring an art, dexterity, or grace, as in fencing, dancing, riding; or the exertion of the muscles for invigorating the body. NWAD EXERCISE.8
6. Exertion of the body and mind or faculties for improvement, as in oratory, in painting or statuary. NWAD EXERCISE.9
7. Use or practice to acquire skill; preparatory practice. Military exercises consist in using arms, in motions, marches and evolutions. Naval exercise consists in the use or management of artillery, and in the evolutions of fleets. NWAD EXERCISE.10
8. Exertion of the mind; application of the mental powers. NWAD EXERCISE.11
9. Task; that which is appointed for one to perform. NWAD EXERCISE.12
10. Act of divine worship. NWAD EXERCISE.13
11. A lesson or example for practice. NWAD EXERCISE.14
1. In a general sense, to move; to exert; to cause to act, in any manner; as, to exercise the body or the hands; to exercise the mind, the powers of the mind, the reason or judgment. NWAD EXERCISE.16
2. To use; to exert; as, to exercise authority or power. NWAD EXERCISE.17
3. To use for improvement in skill; as, to exercise arms. NWAD EXERCISE.18
4. To exert one’s powers or strength; to practice habitually; as, to exercise one’s self in speaking or music. NWAD EXERCISE.19
5. To practice; to perform the duties of; as, to exercise an office. NWAD EXERCISE.20
6. To train to use; to discipline; to cause to perform certain acts, as preparatory to service; as, to exercise troops. NWAD EXERCISE.21
7. To task; to keep employed; to use efforts. NWAD EXERCISE.22
Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense towards God and men. Acts 24:16. NWAD EXERCISE.23
8. To use; to employ. NWAD EXERCISE.24
9. To busy; to keep busy in action, exertion or employment. NWAD EXERCISE.25
10. To pain or afflict; to give anxiety to; to make uneasy. NWAD EXERCISE.26
Exercise; practice; use. NWAD EXERCITATION.2
1. Literally, to thrust forth; to emit; to push out. NWAD EXERT.2
Before the gems exert NWAD EXERT.3
Their feeble heads. NWAD EXERT.4
[An unusual application.] NWAD EXERT.5
2. To bring out; to cause to come forth; to produce. But more generally, NWAD EXERT.6
3. To put or thrust forth, as strength, force or ability; to strain; to put in action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body or limbs; to exert efforts; to exert powers or faculties; to exert the mind. NWAD EXERT.7
4. To put forth; to do or perform. NWAD EXERT.8
When the will has exerted an act of command on any faculty of the soul. NWAD EXERT.9
To exert one’s self, is to use efforts; to strive. NWAD EXERT.10
The act of eating out or through. [Little used.] NWAD EXESION.2
A boiling; ebullition; agitation caused by heat; effervescence. NWAD EXESTUATION.2
In surgery and mineralogy, to separate and come off in scales, as pieces of carious bone; to scale off, as the lamins of a mineral. NWAD EXFOLIATE.2
1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth fluids in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation. NWAD EXHALATION.2
2. That which is exhaled; that which is emitted, or which rises in the form of vapor; fume or steam; effluvia. Exhalations are visible or invisible. The earth is often dried by evaporation, without visible exhalations. The smell of fragrant plants is caused by invisible exhalations. NWAD EXHALATION.3
1. To send out; to emit; as vapor, or minute particles of a fluid or other substance. The rose exhales a fragrant odor. The earth exhales vapor. Marshes exhale noxious effluvia. NWAD EXHALE.2
2. To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor or minute particles; to evaporate. The sun exhales the moisture of the earth. NWAD EXHALE.3
1. To draw out or drain off the whole of any thing; to draw out, till nothing of the matter drawn is left. We exhaust the water in a well, by drawing or pumping; the water of a marsh is exhausted by draining; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation. NWAD EXHAUST.2
2. To empty by drawing out the contents. Venesection may exhaust the veins and arteries. NWAD EXHAUST.3
3. To draw out or to use and expend the whole; to consume. The treasures of the prince were exhausted; his means or his resources were exhausted. The strength or fertility of land may be exhausted. NWAD EXHAUST.4
4. To use or expend the whole by exertion; as, to exhaust the strength or spirits; to exhaust one’s patience. Hence this phrase is equivalent to tire, weary, fatigue. NWAD EXHAUST.5
1. Tending to exhaust; as exhausting labor. NWAD EXHAUSTING.2
1. The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits. NWAD EXHAUSTION.2
2. In mathematics, a method of proving the equality of two magnitudes by a reductio ad absurdum, or showing that if one is supposed either greater or less than the other, there will arise a contradiction. NWAD EXHAUSTION.3
In the civil law, a disinheriting; a father’s excluding a child from inheriting any part of his estate. NWAD EXHEREDATION.2
1. To offer or present to view; to present for inspection; to show; as, to exhibit painting or other specimens of art; to exhibit papers or documents in court. NWAD EXHIBIT.2
2. To show; to display; to manifest publicly; as, to exhibit a noble example of bravery or generosity. NWAD EXHIBIT.3
3. To present; to offer publicly or officially; as, to exhibit a charge of high treason. NWAD EXHIBIT.4
1. In chancery, a deed or writing produced in court, sworn to by a witness, and a certificate of the oath indorsed on it by the examiner or commissioner. NWAD EXHIBIT.6
1. The offering, producing or showing of titles, authorities or papers of any kind before a tribunal, in proof of facts. NWAD EXHIBITION.2
2. Public show; representation of feats or actions in public; display of oratory in public; any public show. NWAD EXHIBITION.3
3. Allowance of meat and drink; pension; salary; benefaction settled for the maintenance of scholars in universities, not depending on the foundation. NWAD EXHIBITION.4
4. Payment; recompense. NWAD EXHIBITION.5
To make cheerful or merry; to enliven; to make glad or joyous; to gladden; to cheer. Good news exhilarates the mind, as good wine exhilarates the animal spirits. NWAD EXHILARATE.2
1. The state of being enlivened or cheerful. Exhilaration usually expresses less than joy or mirth, but it may be used to express both. NWAD EXHILARATION.2