exactly 
exactly (og-zakt'li), rfc. In an exact mariner; 
precisely according to rule, measure, fact, cir- 
cumstance, etc.; with minute correctness ; ac- 
curately : as, a tenon exactly fitted to the mor- 
tisr. 
As conccrnlngc the inischaunce of Cotta and Sabinus, 
he learned tin- ticiith mure '.wi/i/ bj iiy prisoners. 
(lMiH:t, It. of Cicsar, fol. 141. 
I he gardens arc - ' and the whole place very 
agreeable and well water 'd. Kn-lyn, Diary, July 30, 1882. 
\\ r say that a lute is in tune whether it lie exnrtlii 
l>l:iyed upon or no, if tin: strings be all so duly stretched 
MM it would appear to be in tune if it were played upon. 
Boyle, Origin of Forms. 
It is seldom that an Egyptian workman can be induced 
to make a thing exactly to order. 
/.'. ir. Law, Modern Egyptians, I. 885. 
exactness (e^-zakt'nes), n. The state or con- 
dition of being exact; strict conformity to 
what is required; accuracy; nicety; precision: 
as, to make experiments with exactness; exact- 
ness of method. 
I copied them (inscriptions! with all the exactness I 
possibly could, tho' many of them were very difficult to 
be uiuleratood. Pucocke, Description of the East, I. 102. 
They think that their exactness in one duty will atone for 
their neglect of another. Rogers. 
He had . . . that sort of exactness which would have 
(mule him a respectable antiquary. Macaulay. 
Though the mills of (Jod grind slowly, yet they grind ex- 
ceeding small ; 
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness 
grinds he all. 
Longfellow, tr. of Friedrieh von Lognu's Retribution. 
exactor (eg-zak'tor), n, [< ME. exactour, < OF. 
u-iictor, F. exacte'itr = Sp. Pg. exactor = It. esat- 
tore, < L. exactor, an expeller, demander, tax- 
gatherer, etc., < exigere, pp. exaetus^ exact: see 
exact,] 1. One who exacts or levies; specifi- 
cally, an officer who collects tribute, taxes, or 
customs. 
Hereby the land was tilled with bitter cursings (though 
In secret) by those that wish such vnreasouable exactors 
neuer to see good end of the vse of that inonie. 
Huliiuhed, Hen. III., an. 1229. 
The exactors of rates came to Simon Peter, asking him 
if his Master paid the accustomed imposition. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 269. 
2. One who or that which requires or demands 
by authority : as, an exactor of etiquette. 
It ... is the rigidest exactor of truth, in all our beha- 
viour, of any other doctrine or institution whatsoever. 
South, Works, I. xii. 
3. One who compels another to pay more than 
is legal or reasonable ; one who is unreasona- 
bly strict in his demands or requirements. 
In reqnytlng a good toiirne, shew not thy selfe negli- 
gent nor contrarye: bee not an exactour of another man. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 108. 
Men that are in health are severe exactors of patience 
at the hands of them that are sick. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, ii. 3. 
The service of sin is perfect slavery ; and he who will 
pay obedience to the command of it shall find it an unrea- 
sonable task-master, and an immeasurable exactor. 
Smith, Works, II. i. 
exactress (eg-zak'tres), . [= It. esattrice, < 
LL. exactrix, fern, of exactor, exactor : see ex- 
actor.'} A female who exacts or is strict in her 
requirements. [Rare.] 
That were a heavy and hard task, to satisfy Expectation, 
who is so severe an exartress of duties. 
B. Jonsini. Neptune's Triumph. 
exacuatet (eg-zak'u-at), r. t. [Irreg., with-ate2, 
< L. eiacuere, pp. txacutus, sharpen, < ex, out, 
+ ticiicrc, sharpen: see acute.] To sharpen; 
whet. 
tan of such an injury received 
Shoul-l -so <\i'<n-it<tti' and whet your choler 
As you should count yourself an host of meu 
Oonpmd in him. 
B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, lii. 3. 
2047 
of the family Cerambycidte, such as E. vnicolor 
of South Australia. Pascoe, 1865. 6. A genus 
of flies, of the family MvtfMyMflfc Also Kx- 
n/ri in. Si-lihtir, 1867. 
exaggerate (eg-zaj'e-rat), v. ; pret. and pp. ex- 
ni/i/i I'nti'il, ppr. rxiujgrriiting, [< L. exaggera- 
ina, pp. cii uiii/ijerare (> F. exagerer = 8p. Pg. 
rsii</erar = It. esagerare), heap up, increase, en- 
large, magnify, amplify, exaggerate, < ex, out, 
up, + aggerare, heap up, < agger, a heap, mound: 
see agger.] I, trans. If. To heap up; accumu- 
late. 
In the great level near Thorny, several oaks and firs 
stand in firm earth below the moor, and have lain there 
hundreds of years, still covered by the fresh and salt waters 
and moorish earth exaggerated upon them. Sir M. Halt. 
2. To increase immoderately or extravagant- 
ly; make incongruously large or extended; am- 
plify beyond proper bounds. 
Our days witness no such extreme servilities of expres- 
sion as were used by ecclesiastics in the dedication of the 
Bible to King James, nor any such exaggerated adulations 
as those addressed to Oeorge III. by the House of Lords. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Social., EV4. 
Strychnia . . . possesses the power of considerably ex- 
aggerating the excitability of the brain. 
Tr. In Alien, and Neural., VI. 7. 
3. To cause to appear immoderately large or 
important ; amplify in representation or appre- 
hension; enlarge beyond truth or reason. 
When . . . faithfully describing the state of his feel- 
ings at that time, Bunyan was not conscious that he exag- 
gerated the character of his offences. 
Southey, Bunyan, p. 15. 
He exaggerates a few occasional acts of smuggling into 
an immense and regular importation. 
Maeaulay, Sadler's Ref. Refuted. 
4. In the fine arts, to heighten extravagantly 
or disproportionately in effect or design : as, to 
exaggerate particular features in a painting or 
statue. = Syn. 3 and 4. To strain, stretch, overcolor, 
caricature. See list under aggravate. 
H. intrant. To amplify unduly in thought or 
in description ; use exaggeration in speech or 
writing. 
exaggerated (eg-zaj'e-ra-ted), p. a. In zool., 
larger, more conspicuous, or more positive than 
that which is normal ; specifically, in eiitom., of 
deeper color: as, a species with exaggerated 
characters ; exaggerated marks, spines, pro- 
cesses, etc. ; a dark band exaggerated in the 
center. 
exaggeratedly (eg-zaj'e-ra-ted-li), adv. To an 
excessive or exaggerated degree. 
They are intensely, even exaggeratedly, negroid in the 
form of the nose. 
W. H. Flower, in Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 319. 
exaggeration (eg-zaj-e-ra'shon), n. [= F. ex- 
ageration = Sp. exager'acion = Pg. exageracSo = 
It. esagerazione, < L. exaggeratio(n-), a heaping 
up, an exaltation, < exaggerare : see exaggerate.] 
If. A heaping together; accumulation; a pile 
or heap. 
Some towns that were anciently havens and ports are 
now, by exaggeration of sand between these towns and the 
sea, converted into firm land. 
Sir M . Hale, Orig. of Mankind. 
2. An undue or excessive enlargement or de- 
velopment. 
A very indulgent apologist might perhaps attempt to 
show that his errors were but the exaggeration of virtues. 
A. Dobson, Int. to Steele s Plays, p. xL 
3. Amplification; unreasonable or extravagant 
overstating or overdrawing in the representa- 
tion of things ; hyperbolical representation. 
Exaggerations of the prodigious condescensions in the 
prince to pass good laws would have an odd sound at 
Westminster. Swift. 
The language of exaggeration is forbidden by the mod 
esty of his nature. Sumner, Hon. John Pickering. 
exacuationt (eg-zak-u-a'shon), n. [< exacuate 4. In the fine arts, a representation of things 
+ ;""']_ The act of whetting ; a sharpening, in which their natural features are emphasized 
or magnified. 5. In soot., amplification or in- 
tensification ; emphasis or conspicuousness, as 
of any characteristics : as, this form is but an 
exaggeration of the other. =Syn. 3. Exaggeration, 
Hyperbole. Strictly, exaggeration Is always greater than 
truth or good taste would allow, while as a figure hyper- 
bole is an overstatement not likely to mislead, and sane- 
+ -(o.l T 
rotes, 1717. 
exaeresist (eg-zer'e-sis), n. [NL., < Gr. efaiptaif, 
a taking put (of the entrails of victims, of teeth, 
etc.), < efaipciP, take out, < tf, out, + alpeiv, 
take: see herrsi/, />/T<W,.] In meil, and surg., 
the removal from the body of anything that is 
useless or injurious by evacuation, extraction, 
excision, "etc. 
Exaereta (eg-zer'e-ta\ H. [NL., < Gr. ct-aipcrot, 
chosen, choice, < egaipeiv, take ont, pick out : see 
i fcmtig. ] 1. A genus of moths, of the family 
Jfototkmttda, having very short palpi. The only 
species is /;. iiliniot Europe, which strongly re- 
sembles some noctiiids. Hiihucr, 1816. S. A 
genus ofbcrs. of I he family //./i/.r. from < iuiana. 
Also i:.,:n; e. Erichso . 1848. 8. A gpnus of 
bugs, o the family l',i/itiiil<r. Also !:.< 
l'i: >><-r, 1864. 4. A genus of longicoru beetles, 
, 
tioned by good tnste rising above the truth only as a means 
of lifting the sluggish mind of the hearer to the level of 
the truth. Bypgroou is occasionally used of overstatement 
that is mere exaggeration, or otherwise against good taste. 
As the Brazen Age shows itself in other men by exay- 
"a of phrase, so In him (Thoreau] by extravagance of 
statement. Lovxll, Study Windows, p. 202. 
He [Dryden] was at first led to give greater weight to 
mess ,-iml to the restraint of arbitrary rules from a 
consciousness that he had a tendency to /o/;Wtak and ex- 
-:ince. //. study Windows, p. SOT. 
exaggerative (eg-znj'e-ra-tiv), a. [< F. es(t;/e- 
ratij = Sp. Pg. exageraiivo = It. esagerc 
exalt 
as exaggerate + -ire.] Tending to or charac- 
terized by exaggeration ; exaggerating. 
Not a history, but eianyerativt pictures of the I: 
tlon, Is Mazzlni's summing-up. The Century, XXXI. ii 
Hear Vicars, a poor human soul zealously prophesying, 
as if through the organs of an ass, in a not mendacious, 
yet loud-spoken, exaggerative, more or less asinine, man- 
ner. Carlyle, Cromwell, I. 142. 
exaggeratively (eg-zaj'e-ra-tiv-li), adv. In an 
exaggerated manner; with exaggeration. 
Filled w itli what I exaggeratively thought a thousand or 
two of human creatures. Carlyle, in Fronde, I. 7. 
exaggerator (eg-zaj'e-ra-tor), n. [< F. exage- 
rateur = Sp. Pg. exagerador = It. esageratore, 
< LL. exaggerator, one who increases or en- 
larges, < L. exaggerare, increase, enlarge: see 
exaggerate.] One who exaggerates. 
You write so of the poets and not laugh ? 
Those virtuous liars, dreamers after dark, 
Exaggerators of the sun and moon, 
And soothsayers In a tea-cup? 
Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, f. 
exaggeratory (eg-zaj'e-ra-to-ri), o. [< exagger- 
ate + -ory.] Containing exaggeration. 
You fall into the common errours of exaggeratory de- 
clamation, by producing, in a familiar disquisition, exam- 
ples of national calamities, and scenes of extensive misery. 
Johnson, Rasselas, xxvili. 
exagitatet (eg-zaj'i-tat), v. t. [< L. exagitatus, 
pp. of exagitare (> It. esagitare = Pg. exagitar), 
shake up, stir up, rouse, disturb, rail at, re- 
proach, < ex, out, + agitare, shake: see agitate.] 
1. To shake violently ; agitate. 
Did presage 
Th' ensuing storms examtated rage. 
Chamoerlayne, Pharonnida (1659). 
2. To pursue with invectives or reproaches; 
rail at. 
This their defect and imperfection I had rather lament 
. . . than exagitate. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, ill. 1 11. 
exagitationt (eg-zaj-i-ta'shon), w. = It. esagi- 
tazione, < LL. exagitatio(n-}, agitation, < L. ex- 
agitare, shake up: see exagitate.] Violent agi- 
tation ; a shaking. 
Thunder's strong rxagitation*. 
Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (1659). 
exalate (eks-a'lat), a. [< L. ex- pri v. + alatvs, 
winged: see a/ate 2 .] In hot., not alate; wing- 
less. 
exalbuminose (eks-al-bu'mi-nos), a. [< L. ex- 
priv. + E. albuminose.] Same as exalbuminous. 
exalbuminous (eks-al-bu'mi-nus), a. [< L. er- 
priv. + E. albuminoun.] In bot., without albu- 
men : applied to seeds. 
exalt (eg-zalt'), v. t. [< OF. exalter, F. exalter 
= Pr. Sp. Pg. exaltar = It. esaltare, < L. exaltare, 
lift up, raise, elevate, exalt, < ex, out, up, + al- 
tus, high: see alt, altitude.] 1. To raise high; 
lift to a great or unusual altitude; elevate in 
space. 
I have seen 
The ambitious ocean swell, and rage, and foam, 
To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds. 
Shot., J. C., i. 3. 
Rise, crown'd with light, Imperial Salem, rise ! 
Kialt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes ! 
Pope, Messiah, 1. 86. 
2. To elevate in degree or consideration ; bring 
to a higher or more intense state or condition ; 
raise up, as in rank, character, or quality : as, 
to exalt a person to a high office ; to exalt the 
passions. 
Exalt him that Is low, and abase him that Is high. 
. Ezek. xxi. 26. 
Now, Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice. Prior. 
Bridget's memory, exalted by the occasion, warmed Into 
a thousand half-obliterated recollections of things and 
persons. Laml>, Mackery End. 
These apparently trivial causes had the effect of rous- 
ing and exalting the Imagination in a way that was mys- 
terious to herself. Oeorge Eliot, Mill on the Floss, iii. 6. 
3. To attribute or accord exaltation to ; make 
high or elevated in estimation or expression; 
magnify; glorify; praise; extol. 
Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. 
Luke xiv. 11. 
He Is ... my father's God, and I will exalt him. 
Ex. xv. 2. 
" It [Christianity] exalts the lowly virtues," the love 
of peace, charity, humility, forgiveness, resignation, pa- 
tience, purity, holiness. Story, Misc. Writings, p. 431. 
4f. In cheat., to purify; refine: as, to exalt the 
juices or the qualities of bodies. 
I exalt our med'cine, 
By hanging him in balneo vaporoso, 
And giving him solution. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, Ii. 1. 
With chemlc art exalts the mineral powers. 
Pope , Windsor Forest, L 243. 
= Syn. 1. Eleratf. Lift, etc. See raite. 8. To ennoble, 
dignify, aggrandize. 3. To glorify. 
