exinanition 
Diseases of exinanition are raore dangerous than dis- 
eases of repletion. G. Herbert, Country I'arson, xxvi. 
We are not commanded to imitate a life whose story 
tells of ... fastings to the exinanition of spirits, and dis- 
abling all animal operations. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 23. 
Hence 2. Privation; loss; destitution; low 
estate. 
Some theologians make a proper distinction between 
txinanition and humiliation, and coutlne the former to 
the life, the latter to the death of Christ. 
Schafl', Christ and Christianity, p. 85. 
exindusiate (eks-in-du'si-at), a. [< ex-priv. + 
inclusiate.] In hot., not having an indusium: 
applied to ferns. 
exine (ek'sin), . Same as extine. 
exinguinal (eks-ing'gwi-nal), a. and n. [< L. 
ex, out, + inguen (inguin-), groin: see inguinal.] 
I. a. In eatom., situated outside the inguen or 
groin, or beyond the insertion of the leg. See II. 
II. n. The second joint of a spider's leg, the 
first of the two forming the thigh, and corre- 
sponding to the trochanter of a true insect, 
exintine (eks-in'tin), n. [< ex(tine) + iutine.] 
A name given by Fritzche to a supposed mid- 
dle membrane intermediate between the ex- 
tine and the intine in the pollen-grains of cer- 
tain plants. See intextine. 
exist (eg-zisf), v. i. [= F. exister = Sp. Pg. 
existir = It. csistere (= G. cxistiren = Dan. ex- 
istere = Sw. existera, after F.), < L. existere. ex- 
sistere, stand forth, come forth, arise, be, < ex, 
out, + sistere, set, place, caus. of stare, stand : 
see stand. Cf. assist, consist, desist, insist, per- 
sist, resist.'] 1. To have actual being of any 
kind; actually be at a certain moment or 
throughout a certain period of time. 
By all the operation of the orbs, 
From whom we do exist, and cease to be. 
Shak., Lear, 1. 1. 
The bright Idea both exists and lives, 
Such vital Heat thy genial Pencil gives. 
Conyreve, To Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
New freedom could not exist in safety under the old ty- 
rant. Macaulay, Nugent's Hampden. 
Upon a very common confusion of the word exist with 
the verb to he, which does not necessarily imply existence, 
he founded his argument against the possibility of crea- 
tion : creation cannot be, for being cannot arise out of 
non-being; nor can non-being be. Eiicyc. Brit., VIII. 1. 
Hence 2". To live; continue to have life or 
animation: as, men cannot exist without air, 
nor fishes without water. 
Thou art not thyself ; 
For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains 
That issue out of dust. Shak., M. for II., Hi. 1. 
We know that the reindeer and the aurochs existed in 
Europe up to the time of the Romans, and the great Irish 
deer up to the time of modern peat bogs. 
Dawson, Nature and the Bible, p. 161. 
existability (eg-zis-ta-bil'i.-ti), n. See existi- 
bility. 
existence (eg-zis'tens), n. [< ME. existence, < 
OF. existence, F. existence = Pr. Sp. Pg. exis- 
tencia = It. csistenza (= G. existenz = Dan. Sw. 
existens, after F.), existence, < ML. existentia, < 
L. existen(t-)s, existent : see existent."] 1. Actual 
being; being at a certain moment or through- 
out a certain period of time ; being such as or- 
dinary objects possess. See being. 
Between creatures of mere existence and things of life 
there is a large disproportion of nature. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, 1. 33. 
If I know I doubt, I have as certain perception of the 
existence of the thing doubting as of that thought which 
I call doubt. Locke, Human Understanding, IV. ix. 3. 
It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst 
men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all 
sensible objects, have an existence natural or real, distinct 
from their being perceived by the understanding. 
Bp. Berkeley. 
Hence 2. Life; vital or sentient being ; state 
of life. 
Is death to be feared that will convey thee to so happy 
an existence) Addison, Vision of Mirza. 
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles 
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. 
Addition, Cato, v. 1. 
I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and meta- 
phorical sense, including dependence of one being on an- 
other, and including not only the life of the individual, 
but success in leaving progeny. 
Danirin, Origin of Species, p. 62. 
3. That which exists; that which actually is 
an individual thing ; an actuality. 
The fact is as remarkable as it is incontrovertible that 
the human race, all but universally, has conceived of some 
Existence more exalted than man. 
Channinf/, Perfect Life, p. 3. 
What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youth- 
ful joys, 
Tho' the deep heart of existence beat for ever like a boy's? 
Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
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Existence that is to say, the only Existence contem- 
plated by us is objective Experience : it is the external 
aspect of Keeling. 
G. II. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. ii. 8. 
4f. Reality; fact; truth. 
She [Fortune] maketh. thurgh hir adversite, 
Men fulle clerly for to se 
Hym that is freend in existence 
From hym that is by apparence. 
Horn, of the nose, 1. 5546. 
Being of existence. See being. Finite existence. See 
finite. 
existency (eg-zis'ten-si), . Same as existence. 
Nor is it onely of rarity, but may be doubted whether 
it be of existency, or really any such stone in the head of 
a toad at all. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 13. 
existent (eg-zis'tent), a. and n. [= F. existant 
= Sp. Pg. existente=It. esistente, <L. existen(t-)s, 
exsisten(t-)s, existing, ppr. of existere, exsistere, 
exist: see exist."] I. a. Existing; having exis- 
tence. 
The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have 
no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden. 
The universe, according to Aristotle, is a continuous 
chain; at the one end is the purely potential, matter 
without form or qualities; at the other end is pure un- 
conditioned actuality, the ever existent, or God. 
JSncyc. Brit., II. 522. 
Existent power, a power of doing or becoming some- 
thing belonging to an existing thing. Also called entita- 
tive-power. 
II. n. That which exists, or has actual being. 
The contention of those who declare the Absolute to be 
nnk'nowable is, that beyond the sphere of knowable phe- 
nomena there is an Existent, which partially appears in 
the phenomena, but is something wholly removed from 
them, and in no way cognizable by us. 
G. H. Leiees, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. vi. 8. 
existential (ek-sis-ten'shal), a. [< ML. *exis- 
teiitialis (in deriv. existentililita(t-)s), < existentia, 
existence : see existence.] 1. Of, pertaining to, 
or consisting in existence ; ontological. 
Enjoying the good of existence, and the being deprived 
of that existential good. Bp. Barlow, Remains, p. 483. 
There is a certain parallelism between the logical and 
existential analyses. 
S. Hodgson, Philos. of Reflection, III. vii. 1. 
2. Expressing or stating the fact of existence. 
Convention does not allow us to say " It executes," as 
we say "It blows "or "It thunders," because (if for no 
other reason) the group of phenomena is not one of famil- 
iar immemorial occurrence. But we can just as conve- 
niently adopt the existential form, " There was an execu- 
tion," as the predicative form, "A man was hanged"; 
and as a matter of fact, one form would be as readily em- 
ployed as the other. J. Venn, Mind, XIII. 415. 
existentially (ek-sis-ten'shal-i), adv. In an 
existential manner; in an existing state; ac- 
tually. [Rare.] 
Whether God was existentially as well as essentially in- 
telligent. Coleridge. 
exister (eg-zis'ter), n. One who or that which 
exists. [Rare.] 
Given a somewhat humdrum and monotonous existence ; 
the exister finding " Denmark a prison." 
The Atlantic, LIX. 572. 
existibility (eg-zis-ti-'bil'i-ti), . [< existibie: 
see -bilitii.] Capacity or possibility of exis- 
tence. Also existability. 
The existability of perfect numbers. 
Nature, XXXVII. 417. 
existible (eg-zis'ti-bl), a. [< exist + -Me.] 
Capable of existing or of existence. 
It is evident that all corporeal and sensible perfections 
are in some way exMible in the human mind. 
y. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, p. 119. 
existimationt (eg-zis-ti-ma'shpn), n. [< L. ex- 
iittimatio(n-), judgment, opinion, estimation, < 
existimare, existumare, judge, estimate, < ex, 
out, + aistimare, ccstumare, value, estimate: 
see esteem, estimate.] Esteem ; estimation. 
If ... a man should bring forth any thing that he hath 
read done in times past, or that he hath seen done in other 
places; there the hearers fare as though the whole existi- 
inationol their wisdom were in jeopardy to be overthrown. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), i. 
Men's existimation follows us according to the company 
we keep. Spectator, No. 456. 
exit (ek'sit), n. [= Sp. Pg. exito = It. esito, < 
L. exitus, a going out, egress, a way out (in the 
stage use, in E., < exit, v.), also in ML. issue, 
offspring, vent, < exire, pp. exitux, go out, < ex, 
out, + ire, go. Cf. issue, n., nearly a doublet of 
exit.] 1. A way of departure ; a passage out. 
Moving on I found 
Only the landward exit of the cave. 
Tennyson, Sea Dreams. 
2. The departure of a player from the stage 
when he has performed his part. 
All the world's a stage, 
And all the men and women merely players: 
They have their exits, and their entrances. 
l:, An you Like it, ii. 7. 
Exoceides 
Hence 3. Any departure; specifically, the 
act of quitting the stage of action or of life ; 
death ; decease. 
\Vc made our exit out of the Sepulcher, and returning 
to the Convent Uin'd with the Fryars. 
Uaundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 76. 
No ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations 
than those which are raised from reflections upon the 
exits of great and excellent men. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 133. 
exit (ek'sit). [L., he goes out, a stage direc- 
tion in plays; 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. of exire, 
go out: see exit, n.] In plays, a direction to 
mark the time of an actor's quitting the stage. 
exitial (eg-zish' al ),. [< Ij.exitia Us, destructive, 
fatal, < cxitium, 'destruction, ruin, also lit. (like 
exitus) a going out, egress, < exire, go out: see 
exit.] Destructive to life ; fatal; dangerous. 
Most exitial fevers, although not concomitated with the 
tokens, exanthemata, anthraces, or carbuncles, are to be 
censured pestilential. Harvey, The Plague. 
exitious (eg-zish'us), a. [< L. exitiosus, destruc- 
tive, etc., < exilium : see exitial.] Same as ex- 
itial. 
To this end is come that beginning of setting up of im- 
ages in churches, then iudged harinlesse, in experience 
proved not only harmful!, but exitious and pestilent, and 
to the destruction and subversion of all good religion. 
Homilies, Against Peril of Idolatry, iii. 
exitus (ek'si-tus), n. [L. : see exit, n.] In law : 
(a) Issue; offspring, (b) Yearly rent or prof- 
its of land. 
exlet (ek'sl), n. An obsolete or dialectal form 
of axle. Florio. 
ex lege (eks le'je). [L. : ex, out of ; lege abl.of 
lex, law.] Arising from law. 
exlext (eks'leks), n. [L., prop, adj., beyond 
the law, lawless, < ex, out of, + lex, law : see 
legal. Cf. E. outlaw.] An outlaw. 
ex libris (eks H'bris). [L. : ex, out of; libris, 
abl. pi. of liber, a book.] 1. Literally, from 
the books (of): as, an ex libris exhibition (an ex- 
hibition of books from the books or library of 
certain collectors). 2. A book-plate printed 
with the name of the owner, and usually his 
arms also ; or, more rarely, a device or impresa 
the motto of which should have some reference 
to books or study. 
I recently came across a curious ex libris. ... It is not 
mentioned by Mr. Warren in his list of early dated book 
plates. X. anil Q., 6th ser., IX. 486. 
ex necessitate (eks ne-ses-i-ta'te). [L.: ex, out 
of; necessitate, abl. of necessita(t-)s, necessity: 
see necessity.] Of necessity; from the neces- 
sity of the thing or of the case ; necessarily. 
6XO-. [Gr. efw, adv., without, out of, outside, 
< ff, prep., out: see ex-. Cf. ecto-.] A prefix 
in words of Greek origin, meaning ' without,' 
'outside': used chiefly in scientific compounds, 
where it is usually equivalent to ccto- : opposed 
to endo- or en to-. 
exoarian (ek-so-a'ri-an), a. Having external 
genitals, as a hydrozoan ; specifically, of or per- 
taining to the Exoarii: opposed to endoarian. 
Exoarii (ek-so-a'ri-J), . pi. [NL., < Gr. efu, 
outside, + ap;oi>, dim. of IMV = L. ovum, egg.] 
The hydrozoans: so called by Rapp (1829), 
with reference to their external genitalia : dis- 
tinguished from Endoarii. 
exocardiac (ek-so-kar'di-ak), a. Same as exo- 
cardial. 
exocardial (ek-so-kar'di-al), a. _< Gr. E|U, out- 
side, + napdia, = E. heart, + -ah] Situated 
without, or external to, the heart. 
Exocardines (ek-so-kar'di-nez), n. pi. [NL., < 
Gr. ffu, outside, + L. canto (cardin-), a hinge.] 
A division of lamellibranch mollusks, contain- 
ing all the forms except the Endocardincs. 
exocarp (ek'so-karp), w. [< Gr. efu, outside, 
+ KapTTof, fruit.] In bot., the outer layer of a 
pericarp when it consists of two dissimilar 
layers. 
exoccipital (ek-sok-sip'i-tal), a. and n. [< L. 
ex, out, + occi/mt (oceipit-), occiput : see occip- 
ital.] I. a. Pertaining to or constituting that 
part of the occipital bone of the skull which 
lies on the right or left side of the foramen 
magnum. 
II. n. A lateral occipital bone ; one of a pair 
of bones situated on each side of the basioccipi- 
tal, and with this and generally with the supra- 
occipital circumscribing the foramen magnum. 
It is the neurapophysial element of theocripitnl hone, cor- 
rcspoudiiu to the greater part of the neural arch of a ver- 
tehra. (See cuts under Anura, Bal&nula', Cyctodw, and 
Esax.) In the embryo it has a distinct center of ossifica- 
tion ; in the adnlt nf man and other mammals it chiefly 
forms the comlyloid portion of the occipital bone. 
Exoceides (ek-so-se'i-dez),w.p?. [NL.] Same 
us ExoccctidK. 
