exceptive 
2. Disposed to take exception; inclined to ob- 
ject. -Exceptive enunciation r proposition, a prop- 
osition which contains an exceptive particle. 
Exceptive propositions will make such complex syllo- 
gism ; as, None but physicians came to the consultation ; 
the nurse is no physician ; therefore the nurse came not 
to the consultation. Watts, Logic, iii. 2. 
Exceptive law, a law establishing an exception. Excep- 
tive particle, a conjunction introducing an exception, as 
but, besides, except, etc. 
exceptlesst (ek-sept'les), a. [< except + -less.] 
Making no exception ; extending to all. 
Forgive my general and exceptless rashness, 
You perpetual-sober gods ! I do proclaim 
One honest man. Shak., T. of A., iv. 3. 
exceptor (ek-sep'tor), . [< except + -or.] 1. 
One who objects or takes exception. 
The exceptor makes a reflection upon the impropriety of 
those expressions. T. Burnet, Theory of the Earth. 
2. In law, one who enters an exception. 
excerebrate (ek-ser'e-brat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
excerebrated, ppr. excerebrating. [< LL. excere- 
bratus, pp. of excerebrare, deprive of brains, < 
L. ex- priv. + cerebrum, the brain.] 1. To re- 
move or beat out the brains of. Bailey, 1731. 
[Bare.] 2. To cast out from the brain or mind. 
Hath it [faith] not sovereign virtue in it to excerebrate 
all cares, expectorate all fears and griefs ? 
~S. Ward, Sermons, p. 26. 
excerebration(ek-ser-e-bra'shpn),n. [< excere- 
brate + -ion.] The act of removing or beating 
out the brains; specifically, in obstet., the re- 
moval of the brain of the child to facilitate de- 
livery. Also called eccephalosis. 
excerebrose (ek-ser'e-bros), a. [< L. ex- priv. 
+ cerebrum, the brain, + -ose.] 
brains. Bailey, 1727. [Bare.] 
excernt (ek-sern'), v. t. [< L. excernere, pp. ex- 
cretus, sift out, separate, < ex, out, + cernere, 
separate : see certain. Cf. excrete.] To sepa- 
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exchange 
ceed : see exceed.] 1. A going beyond ordinary, 
necessary, or proper limits ; superfluity in num- 
ber, quantity, or amount; undue quantity ; su- 
perabundance: as, an excess of provisions; ex- 
cess of bile in the system. 
With taper-light 
To seek the beauteous eyes of heaveu to garnish, 
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 
Shak., K. John, iv. 2. 
I will dazzle Cajsar with excess of glory. 
Fletcher (and another), False One, in. 3. 
Every excess causes a defect ; every defect an excess. 
Emerson, Compensation. 
Raw meat and other nutritious substances, given in ex- 
cess, kill the leaves. Darwin, Insectiv. Plants, p. 110. 
2. Undue indulgence of appetite ; want of re- 
straint in gratifying the desires ; intemperance ; 
over-indulgence. 
After al this excesse he had an accidie [fit of sloth], 
That he slepe Saterday and Sonday til sonue sede to reste. 
Piers Plowman (B), v. 366. 
He plunged into wild and desperate excesses, ennobled 
by no generous or tender sentiment. 
Macaulay, Moore's Byron. 
Like one that sees his own excess, 
And easily forgives it as his own. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
'Tis but the fool that loves excess ; hast thou a drunken 
soul? 
Thy bane is in thy shallow skull, not in my silver bowl ! 
O. W. Holmes, On Lending a Punch-bowl. 
3. The amount by which one number or quan- 
take; communicate mutually ; interchange: as, 
to exchange horses, clothes, thoughts, civilities. 
Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. 
Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 
Prisoners are generally exchanged within the same rank 
man for man, and a sum of money or other equivalent is 
paid for an excess of them on one side. 
Woolseij, Introd. to Inter. Law, 146. 
We exchanged a word or two of Scotch. 
Ji. L. Stevenson, Silverado Squatters, p. 56. 
3. To quit or part with for something else; 
give up in substitution ; make a change or tran- 
sition from : as, to exchange a crown for a cowl ; 
to exchange a throne for a cell or a hermitage ; 
a life of ease for a life of toil. 
Wrong of right, and bad of good did make, 
And death for life exchanged foolishlie. 
Spenser, F. Q., VII. vi. 6. 
When like the men of Rome and the men of Athens, 
you exchanged the rule of kings for that of magistrates, 
you did but fall back on the most ancient polity of the 
English folk. E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 365. 
=Syn, To change, trade, truck, swap, bandy, commute. 
See the noun. 
II. intrans. To make an exchange ; pass or 
be taken as an equivalent : as, how much will 
a sovereign exchange for in American money ? 
As a general rule, then, things tend to exchange for one 
another at such values as will enable each producer to be 
renaid the cost of production with the ordinary profit 
J. S. Mill, Pol. Ecou., III. iii. 1. 
tity exceeds another; overplus ; surplus: as, the (eks-chanf), n. [The prefix restored 
T P r ri vre?c^^ 
the Km "J p the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds escliange, escange, mod. F. echange = Pr. escambi 
- 
. - two right angles. 
Having no excessive (ek-ses'iv), a. [= P. excessif = Pr. 
exeessiu = Sp. excesivo = Pg. excessive = It. ec- 
cessivo, < ML. excessivus, immoderate, < L. ex- 
, 
= It. scanibio, < ML. excambium, exchange, < ex- 
eamlnare, exchange : see exchange, v. See also 
change, n., which in some uses is an abbrevia- 
tion of exchange.] 1. The giving of one thing 
cessits, pp. of excedere, exceed : see excess, ex- or commodity for another ; the act of parting 
_. f _____ . . ceed.] Exceeding the usual or proper limit, de- w jth something in return for an equivalent ; 
rate and emit through the pores or through gree, measure, or proportion ; being in excess of traffic by interchange of commodities ; barter. 
-'- fi ---------- : v --- J ~-i.~* 
small passages of the body ; excrete. 
That which is dead, or corrupted, or excerned, hath an- 
tipathy with the same thing when it is alive and sound, 
and with those parts which do extern. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
There is no Science but is full of such stuff, which by 
Direction of Tutor, and Choice of good Bookes, must be 
excerned. Howell, Letters, I, v. 9. 
excerpt (ek-serp'), t. [Formerly also exerp ; 
< OF. excerper, < L. excerpere, pick out, choose, 
select, < ex, out, + carpere, pick, pluck: see 
carp 1 .] To pick out ; excerpt. 
In your reading excerp, and note, in your books, such 
tilings as you like. Hales, Golden Remains, p. 288. 
excerpt (ek-serpf), v. t. [< L. excerptits, pp. of 
excerpere, pick out: see excerp.] To take or 
cull out (a passage in a written or printed 
work); select; cite; extract. 
what is requisite or proper ; going beyond what 
is sanctioned by correct principles; immoder- 
ate ; extravagant ; unreasonable : as, excessive 
bulk; excessive labor; excessive charges; exces- 
sive vanity ; excessive indulgence. 
They were addicted to excessive hankettiug and drun- 
kennesse. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 68. 
If a man worke but three daies in seuen, hee may get 
more then hee can spend vnless hee will be exceedingly ex- 
cessiue. Capt. John Smith, True Travels, II. 201. 
Who is not excessive in the discourse of what he ex- 
tremely likes? Steele, Tatler, No. 182. 
His information would have been excessive, but for the 
noble use he made of it ever in the interest of humanity. 
Emerson, Theodore Parker. 
= Syn. Immense, etc. (see enormous); superabundant, 
superfluous; inordinate, outrageous, extreme; intemper- 
ate, violent. 
Exchange is so important a process in the maximising 
of utility and the saving of labor that some economists 
have regarded their science as treating of this operation 
alone. Jevons, Pol. Econ., iv. 
2. The act of giving up or resigning one thing 
or state for another : as, the exchange of a crown 
for a cloister. 
I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me, 
For I am much asham'd of my exchange [of garments]. 
Shak., II. of V., ii. 6. 
3. The act of giving and receiving reciprocally; 
mutual transfer: as, an exchange of thoughts or 
of civilities. 
When, and where, and how 
We met, we woo'd, and made exchange of vow, 
I'll tell thee as we pass. Shak., R. and J., ii. 3. 
4. Mutual substitution ; return : used chiefly 
Out of which we have excerpted the following partial- excessively (ek-ses'iv-li), adv. 1. With excess; in the phrase in exchange. 
lal'S. fUller. ^ nT1 t\ v li.nmi f\nm.at*' V*nr/^Ylf! TilAQSmvo? Q.a 
in an extreme degree; beyond measure: as, 
excessively impatient; excessively grieved; the 
wind blew excessively. 
The wind is often so excessively hot, that it is like the 
air of an oven, and people are forced to retire into the 
lower rooms and to their vaults, and shut themselves close 
up. Pococke, Description of the East, I. 195. 
A man must be excessively stupid, as well as unchari- 
table who believes there is no virtue but on his own side. 
Addison. 
2. Exceedingly; extremely: as, she was exces- 
sively beautiful. [Now only in loose use.] 
Crebillon said, then he would keep the picture himself 
it was excessively like. Walpole, Letters, II. 295. 
3f. In excess ; intemperately. 
Which having swallowd up excessively, 
He soone in vomit up agaiue doth lay. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 3. 
state or 
Justinian, indeed, has excerpted in the Digest and put in 
the forefront of his Institutes a passage from an elemen- 
tary work of Ulpiau's, in which he speaks of a jus naturale 
that is common to man and the lower animals. 
Encyc. Brit., XX. 703. 
excerpt (ek-serpf), n. [< L. excerptum, an ex- 
tract, selection from a book or writing, neut. 
of excerptus, pp. of excerpere, pick out: see ex- 
cerp, excerpt, v.] An extract from a written 
or printed work : as, excerpts from the records. 
His commonplace book was filled with excerpts from the 
year-books. Lord Campbell, Lord Commissioner Maynard. 
excerpta (ek-serp'ta), n. pi. [L., pi. of excerp- 
tum, an excerpt: see excerp t, n.] Passages ex- 
tracted; excerpts. [Bare.] 
excerption (ek-serp'shon), . [< LL. excerp- 
tio(n-), an extract, < L. excerpere, pp. excerptus, 
pick out: see excerp, excerpt.'] 1. The act of - TP - q< .i vpne8a (ek-ses'iv-nesT re 
excerptiug or picking out; a gleaning; selec- ^f^Teing exces vefex^ss. 
tion. 2. That which is selected or gleaned; 4 U ?""J .* 
an excerpt. [Bare.] 
Times have consumed his works, saving some few ex- 
cerptions. Raleigh. 
There is also extant among them, under the name of 
Excerption*, a collection . . . which might be compared 
with the collections of the West, and perhaps referred to 
their class. R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., xix. 
excerptiye (ek-serp'tiv), a. [< excerpt + -lve.~\ 
Excerpting; choosing. Mackenzie, 
excerptor (ek-serp'tor), n. [< excerpt + -or.] 
One who excerpts; a selecter; a culler. 
I have not been surreptitious of whole pages together 
out of the doctor's printed volumes, and appropriated 
them to myself without any mark, or asterism, as he has 
done. I am no such excerptor. Barnard, Heylin, p. 12. 
excess (ek-ses'), n. [< ME. exces, excess, < OF. 
exces, F. exces = Pr. exces = Sp. exceso = Pg. 
excesso = It. eccesso, < L. excessus, a departure, 
going beyond the bounds of reason, going be- 
yond the subject, < excessus, pp. of excedere, ex- 
exch. A common abbreviation of exchange and 
exchequer. 
(eks-chanj'), v.; pret. and pp. ex- 
Josenh gave them bread in exchange for horses. 
Gen. xlvii. 17. 
O spare her life, and in exchange take mine. Dryden. 
The Lord Arundel, endeavouring to make good his prom - 
ise of procuring my exchange for his two sons, earnestly 
solicited the king to it. Ludlow, Memoirs, I. 94. 
5. That which is given in return for some- 
thing received, or received in return for what 
is given. 
There's my exchange : what in the world he is 
That names me traitor, villain-like he lies. 
Shak., Lear, v. 3. 
The respect and love which was paid you by all who had 
the happiness to know you was a wise exchange for the 
honours of the court. Dryden. 
An Atheist's laugh 's a poor exchaixje 
For Deity offended ! 
Burns, Epistle to a Young Friend. 
Hence 6. Among journalists, a newspaper 
or other regular publication sent in exchange 
for another. 7. In law : (a) A reciprocal trans- 
fer of property for property, as distinguished 
from a transfer for a money consideration. (6) 
At common law, more specifically, a reciprocal 
changed, ppr. exchanging. [The verb does not or mutual g rau t o f equal interests in land, the 
OT^AO,. in MTS i Tvrpfi-r restored to the one-. Qne in consi( j er ation of the other, as a grant of 
a fee simple in return for a fee simple. 8. In 
(n) The giving or receiving of the money 
appear in ME. ; the prefix restored to the orig. 
ex-; < OF. eschanger, echanger, F. echanger = 
Pr. escanjar, escambiar = It. scambiare, < ML. 
excambiare, exchange, < ex, out, + cambiare, 
change, > OF. changer, etc., E. change: see 
change, v., which is in part an abbreviation, by 
apheresis, of exchange.] I. trans. 1. In com., 
to part with in return for some equivalent; 
transfer for a, recompense; barter: as, to ex- 
change goods in foreign countries for their na- 
tive productions ; the workman exchanges his 
labor for money. 
They shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate 
the first fruits of the land. Ezek. xlviri. 14. 
He has something to exchange with those abroad. 
Locke. 
of one country or region in return for an equiv- 
alent sum in that of another, or the giving or 
receiving of a sum of money in one place for a 
bill ordering the payment of an equivalent sum 
in another. 
Down to the time of Henry VII., the business of ex- 
change was a royal monopoly, and carried on at the same 
office as the mint or "bouillon," as it was anciently called ; 
and the royal exchanger alone was entitled to give native 
coin for foreign coin or for bullion. 
Jiithell, Comiting-House Diet., p. 119. 
(b) The method or system by which debits and 
credits in different places are settled without 
