exostosed 
exostosed (ek-sos'tozd), a. 1. Affected with 
exostosis. Erasmus Wilson, Anat. 2. Ossified 
externally; dermosseous. 
The gaseous, liquid, and solid molecular conditions, be- 
ing characters distinguishing otherwise allied substances 
in the same way morphologically (we can not say yet de- 
velopmentally) as the cartilaginous, osseous, and exostosed 
or dermosseous characters distinguish otherwise nearly 
allied genera. E. D. COJM, Origin of the Fittest, p. 46. 
exostosis (ek-sos-to'sis), n. [NL., < Gr. ffu, out- 
side, + barkov, bone, + -os/*.] 1. In pathol., a 
morbid bony growth on the surface of a bone, 
arising from bone, periosteum, or articular or 
epiphyseal cartilage. 2. In bot. , the formation 
of woody, wart-like excrescences upon the stems 
or roots of plants. 
exostotic (ek-sos-tot'ik), . [< exostosis (-ot-) 
+ -ic.] Pertaining to or of the nature of ex- 
ostosis. 
exostracize (ek-sos'tra-slz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
exostracised, ppr. exosiracizing. [< Gr. f^oarpa- 
id&iv, banish by ostracism, < ff, out, + barpa- 
Kifciv, ostracize: see ostracize."] To consign to 
a state of ostracism. 
That the dictionaries have overlooked the use of this 
word which llr. White exostracizee goes for nothing. 
F. HM, False Philol., p. 70. 
exoteric (ek-so-ter'ik), a. and . [= F. exoterique 
= Sp. exoterico = Pg. exoterico = It. esoterico 
(= D. G. exoterisch = Dan. Sw. exoterisk), < LL. 
exotericus, < Gr. f f ure/MKo?, external, belonging to 
the outside, < efw, outside, + -repof, compar. suf- 
fix.] I. a. 1. External; open; suitable for or 
communicated to the general public ; popular : 
originally applied to the public teachings of Aris- 
totle and other ancient philosophers, and some- 
times used in a more special sense as opposed 
to fancied or real esoteric doctrines. 8ee esoteric. 
He has ascribed to Kant the foppery of an exoteric and 
esoteric doctrine. De Quincey. 
2. Pertaining to the outside ; holding an ex- 
ternal relation ; publicly instructed. 
He divided his disciples (says Origen) into two classes, 
the one he called esoteric, the other exoteric. For to 
those he intrusted the more perfect and sublime doctrines ; 
to these he delivered the more vulgar and popular. 
Warburton, Divine Legation, iii. 3. 
3. In embryol., ectoblastic. See extract under 
esoteric. 
II. n. One admitted only to exoteric instruc- 
tion ; one of the uninitiated. 
I am an exoteric utterly unable to explain the myste- 
ries of this new poetical faith. Macaulay, Petrarch. 
exoterical (ek-so-ter'i-kal), a. [< exoteric + 
-a/.] Of an exoteric character or quality ; per- 
taining to exoterics. 
It being no unprecedented thing for the gardener to 
carry his own fruit to market, nor for the wholesale dealer 
to have a separate shop wherein he carries on the retail 
business : why may not I be indulged in the like attempt, 
and permitted to try how the esoterics will look when 
manufactured in the exoterical form ? 
A. nicker. Light of Nature, V. ii. 7. 
exoterically (ek-so-ter'i-kal-i), adv. In an exo- 
teric or public manner. 
But if the nature of the subject will not teach these 
objectors that it must needs be handled exoterically, 
Jamblichus's authority must decide between us. 
Warburton, Divine Legation, iii. 3. 
exotericism (ek-so-ter'i-sizm), n. [< exoteric + 
-ism.~\ Exoteric doctrines or principles, or the 
profession or teaching of such. 
exoterics (ek-so-ter'iks), n. [PI. of exoteric 
^see -ics), after Gr. (ra) i^urepma, neut. pi. of 
tfurtpwof, exoteric.] That which is publicly 
taught; popular instruction, especially in phi- 
losophy: originally applied to the public lec- 
tures and published writings of Aristotle. 
It is then evident from these passages that, in Ids exoter- 
ics, he gave the world both a beginning and an end. 
Warburton, Divine Legation, iii., note. 
exotery (ek'so-ter-i), .; pi. exoteries (-iz). [< ex- 
oteric + -y. Cf.esotery.} That which is obvious 
or common ; that which is exoteric. [Bare.] 
Reserving their esoterics for adepts, and dealing out ex- 
oteries only to the vulgar. A. Tucker, Light of Nature. 
exotheca (ek-so-the'ka), .; pi. exothecce (-se). 
[NL., < Gr. et-u, outside, + dr/Kr/, a case.] The 
aggregate of hard structures which are devel- 
oped upon the exterior of the wall, or the proper 
investment of the visceral chamber, of a coral : 
distinguished from endotheca, and also from epi- 
theca. 
exothecal (ek-so-the'kal), a. [< exotheca + -al.] 
Of or pertaining to exotheen ; composed of or 
developed in exothecse. 
They [the coste of the coral) may be ornamented with 
spines or tubercles, and they may be united by transverse 
plates ("exothecal dissepiments ") which run horizontally 
across the intercostal spaces. Encyc. Brit., VI. 374. 
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exothecate (ek-so-the'kat), a. [< exotheca + 
-/<!.] Provided with exothecee, as a coral, 
exothecium (ek-so-the'si-um), n. [NL., < Gr. 
ff u, outside, + 6i]Kri, a case : see theca.'] In bot., 
the outer coat of an anther, 
exothermic (ek-so-ther'mik), a. [< Gr. tfw, out- 
side, 4- Sipun, heat, + -j'c.] Belating to a libera- 
tion of heat. Exothermic compounds, those com- 
pounds whose formation from elementary substances is 
attended with liberation of heat, and whose decomposi- 
tion into simpler compounds or elementary substances is 
attended with absorption of heat, 
exothermous (ek-so-th6r'mus), a. Same as 
exothermic. 
exotic (eg-zot'ik), a. and n. [Formerly also ex- 
otick; = F. exotique = Sp. exdtico = Pg. exotica 
= It. esotico (cf. G. exotisch = Dan. Sw. exotisk), 
< L. exoticus ! < Gr. furof, foreign, alien, eccles. 
heathen, < efu, outside.] I. a. Of foreign ori- 
gin or character; introduced from a foreign 
country; not native, naturalized, or familiar- 
ized; extraneous: as, an exotic plant; an exotic 
term or word. 
Your pedant should provide you some parcels of French, 
or some pretty commodity of Italian, to commence with, 
if you would be exotic and exquisite. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 3. 
Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the [Russian] am- 
bassador. Emlyn, Diary, Nov. 24, 1681. 
I suppose a writer may be allowed to use exotic terms, 
when custom has not only denizened them, but brought 
them into request. 
Boyle, Considerations touching Experimental Essays. 
Birds, Fishes, Beasts of each exotic Kind 
I to the Limits of my Court confln'd. 
Prior, Solomon, ii. 
I know not whether ever operas can be kept up in Eng- 
land ; they seem to be entirely exotic. 
Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 8. 
II. n. Anything of foreign origin, as a plant, 
tree, word, practice, etc., introduced from a for- 
eign country, and not fully acclimated, natu- 
ralized, or established in use. 
Versification in a dead language is an exotic, a far-fetched, 
costly, sickly imitation of that which elsewhere may be 
found in healthful and spontaneous perfection. 
Macaulay, Milton. 
exotical (eg-zot'i-kal), a. [< exotic + -al.'] 
Same as exotic. 
exoticalness (eg-zot'i-kal-nes), n. The state of 
being exotic, 
exoticism (eg-zot'i-sizm), n. [< exotic + -ism.'] 
1. The state of being exotic. 2. Anything ex- 
otic, as a foreign word or idiom. 
Exoucontian (ek-s6-kon'ti-an), n. [< Gr. ef 
OVK OVTWV, lit. from things not being: ef, from; 
oi> (before vowels OVK), not; bvruv, gen. pi. of ov, 
neut. of uv, ppr. of elvai, be: see am (under fee 1 ), 
ens, entity, ontology.'] In church hist., one who 
held in regard to the Trinity that the Son once 
was not : a name sometimes given to the follow- 
ers of Arius. See Ariatfl. 
The Son, he said, "did not exist before he was begot- 
ten." In other words, "He is of a substance that once 
was not (ef OVK ocTuji') " hence the name of Exoucontian^ 
sometimes given to his followers. Encyc. Brit., II. 537. 
expalpate (eks-pal'pat), a. [< L. ex- priv. + 
NL. palpus, a feeler, + -ate 1 .] In entom., hav- 
ing no palpi or feelers, as the mouth of a hemip- 
terous insect. 
expand (eks-pand'), v. [= Sp. Pg. expandir = It. 
espandere, spandere, < L. expandere, pp. expan- 
sus, spread out, < ex, out, + pandere, spread, 
perhaps connected with patere, be open: see 
patent.'] I. trans. 1. To spread or stretch out ; 
unfold; display. 
Then witli expanded wings he steers his flight. 
Milton, P. L., i. 225. 
My "wife and daughters expanded their gayest plumage 
upon this occasion. Goldsmith, Vicar, vii. 
2. To increase in extent, size, bulk, or amount; 
inflate; distend; extend: as, to expand the chest 
by inspiration ; heat expands all bodies. 
[The editor] has thus succeeded in expo nding the volume 
into one of the thickest . . . that we ever saw. 
Macaulay, Sir James Mackintosh. 
Hence 3. To make broader in scope or more 
comprehensive : as, to expand the heart or affec- 
tions, or the sphere of benevolence. 
Let the Turk spread his Alcoran by the Sword, but let 
Christianity expand herself still by a passive Fortitude. 
Ilmi'tll, Letters, iv. 29. 
The grand object to which he dedicated himself seemed 
to expand his whole soul. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 18. 
Expanded type, in typo?/. , a form of Roman type of broad- 
er or wider face than that of the standard text-types of 
books and newspapers. To expand an insect, in en- 
torn., to prepare it for the cabinet by spreading the winss 
on a setting-board. To expand a pair, in math., to take 
its prior member one earlier and its posterior member one 
later in the linear series from which they are chosen. 
= Syn. 1. To unfold, evolve. 2. To swell, blow up, fill, 
fill out, increase. 
expansion 
II. intraiis. 1. To open out ; become unfold- 
ed, spread out, or displayed. 
His faculties, expanded in full bloom, 
Shine out. Cmi'per, Task, iv. 061. 
2. To increase in extent, size, bulk, amount, 
etc.; become dilated, distended, or enlarged. 
Just so much play as lets the heart trpiiml. 
Brutminy, Ring and Book, II. 6. 
The trees have ample room to expand on the water side, 
and each sends forth its most vigorous branch in that di- 
rection. Thoreti u, Waltlen, p. 202. 
When a gas expands suddenly its temperature falls, be- 
cause a certain amount of its heat passes out of existence 
in the act of producing mechanical effect. 
B. Stewart, Conserv. of Energy, p. 112. 
3. In zoiil,, to spread over a certain space : used 
in stating the distance from tip to tip of out- 
spread wings in the case of insects, of ante- 
rior wings. 
Erebus is a gigantic moth ; . . . our largest species is 
Erebus odora, Drury ; it expand* about five inches. 
Packard. 
Expanding arbor, auger, bit, chuck, drill, hanger, 
etc. See the nouns. 
expander (eks-pan'der), n. One who or that 
which expands ; especially, a tool or machine 
used to expand something; specifically, in 
plumbing, a tool used to spread lead-packing 
into the inner flange-recesses of pipe-connec- 
tions. 
expanse (eks-paus'), a. and n. [< ME. expans, < 
L. expansus, pp. of expandere, spread out, ex- 
pand: see expand.'] I.t a. 1. Expanded; spread 
out. 2. Separate; single: said especially of 
years in old planetary tables. 
Hise tables Tolletanes forth he brought 
Ful wel corrected, ne ther lakked nought, 
Neither his collect, ne his expans yeres. 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 547. 
II. n. [< L. expanstim, neut. of expansus, pp.] 
1. Spatial or superficial extension; an uninter- 
rupted stretch or area, especially one of con- 
siderable extent. 
Let there be lights 
High in the expanse of heaven, to divide 
The day from night. Milton, P. L., vii. 340. 
On the smooth expanse of crystal lakes 
The sinking stone at first a circle makes. Pope. 
Specifically 2. In zool., the extent or stretch 
of wing; the distance from tip to tip when the 
wings, as of an insect or a bird, are fully ex- 
panded. Also called alar expanse or extent. 3. 
Enlargement; extension; expansion. [Bare.] 
To shut off the mighty movement of the great revolt from 
its destined expanse. Motley, United Netherlands, IV. 532. 
= Syn. 2. See extent. 
expanset (eks-pans'), r. t. [< L. expansus, pp. 
of expandere, expand : see expand.'] To expand ; 
stretch out. 
The like doth Beda report of Belerophon's horse, which, 
framed of iron, was placed between two loadstones, with 
wings expanged, pendulous in the ayre. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 3. 
expansibility (eks-pan-si-bil'i-ti), . [= Sp. 
expansibilidad = Pg. t xpansibilidade ; as expan- 
sible : see -bility.] The quality of being expan- 
sible ; capacity of extension in surface or bulk, 
or of distention: as, the expansibility of air. 
Else all fluids would be alike in weight, expansibility, 
and all other qualities. X. Grew. 
A metal of low conducting power and high expansibility 
is necessary, and lead answers these conditions best, 
Sniimaris Journal, IX. 105. 
expansible (eks-pan'si-bl), a. [= F. expansible 
= Sp. expansible = Pg. cxpansivel = It. espan- 
sibile, < L. as if "expansibilis, < expansus, pp. of 
expandere, expand: see expand, expanse.] Capa- 
ble of being expanded or spread ; admitting of 
being extended, dilated, or diffused. 
All have springiness in them, and (notwithstanding) be, 
by reason of their shape, readily expanfMe on the score 
of their native structure. Boyle, Works, V. 614. 
Bodies are not expansible in proportion to their weight. 
A'. Grew. 
Expansible pair, in tuath., a pair containing neither the 
first nor the last of the series of objects from which it is 
taken. 
expansibleness (eks-pan'si-bl-nes), n. Expan- 
sibility. 
expansibly (eks-pan'si-bli), adv. In an expan- 
sible manner; so as to be expanded. 
expansile (cks-pan'sil), . [< L. expanses, pp. 
of expandere, expand (see expand), + -He.] Ca- 
pable of expanding or of expansion ; of a na- 
ture to expand : as, expansile action. Scott. 
expansion (eks-pan'shon), n. [= F. expansion 
= Sp. expansion = Pg. expansao = It. espan- 
siii<', < LL. r.<7<NA'/o(-), a spreading out, < L. 
expansus, pp. of expandere, spread out: see ex- 
pand.] 1. The act of expanding. () The act of 
spreading out. 
