explode 
explode (eks-plod'), r. ; pret. and pp. <:r]>\<l<il. 
ppr. exploding. [= It. esplodere = 0. explmli- 
rcn = Dan. explodere = Sw. explodera, < L. 
exploili-rc, cj-plnmlere, pp. explosus, cxplausus, 
drive out by clapping, hoot off(an actor), hence 
drive away, disapprove, reject, < ex, out, + plan- 
dere, clap, applaud: see applaud, platmible.] I. 
Irinis. If. To decry or reject with noise; ex- 
press disapprobation of with noise or marks of 
contempt ; hiss or hoot off: as, to explode a play 
or an actor. 
That which one admires another explodes as most ab- 
surd and ridiculous. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Header, p. 22. 
I am, therefore, in the tlrst place, to acknowledge with 
all manner of gratitude their civility, who were pleased 
. . . not to explode an entertainment which was designed 
to please them. Dryden, Don Sebastian, Pref. 
He was universally exploded and hissed off the stage. 
...;/ Fables (ed. c. 1720). 
2. To destroy the repute or demonstrate the 
fallacy of; disprove or bring into discredit or 
contempt; do away with: as, an exploded cus- 
tom ; an exploded hypothesis. 
I shall talk very freely on a custom which all men wish 
explixled. Steele, Tatler, No. 25. 
Some late authors have thought that this [Mount Tabor] 
w.-is not the place of the transfiguration; but as the tra- 
ilition has been so universal, their opinion is generally ex- 
ploded. Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 65. 
Old exploded contrivances of mercantile error. Burke. 
3. To cause to burst suddenly and noisily into 
an expanded or gaseous state, or into frag- 
ments, as gunpowder or the like, a steam-boil- 
er, etc. See II. 
Some of these experiments [on guncotton] are made 
by exploding under water equal weights of the same sub- 
stances under identical circumstances. Ure, Diet., II. 761. 
4. To drive out with sudden violence and noise. 
But late the kindled powder did explode 
The massy ball. Sir R. Blackmore. 
5. In pliysiol., to cause to break out or burst 
forth ; bring into sudden action or manifesta- 
tion ; develop rapidly and violently. 
From some peculiar neurotic state, either induced by 
alcohol, or existing before alcohol was used, or exploded 
by this drug, a profound suspension of memory and con- 
sciousness and literal paralysis of certain brain-functions 
follow. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVI. 189. 
II. intrans. 1 . To burst with force and noise, 
as gunpowder or an elastic fluid, through sud- 
denly developed chemical reaction, as from the 
application of fire or friction. 
Chloride of nitrogen, when covered with a film of water, 
explotlex with great violence when brought into contact 
with a decomposing agent. Ure, Diet., II. 321. 
2. To be broken up suddenly with a loud report 
by an internal force ; fly into pieces with vio- 
lence and noise from any cause, as a boiler from 
excessive pressure of steam, a bombshell from 
the expansion of its charge by heat, or a wheel 
from too rapid revolution. 3. To burst noisily 
into sudden activity; break out with loud noise 
from some internal force, or into violent outcry 
or speech, as from emotion : as, a geyser which 
explodes at regular intervals; to explode with 
rage or with laughter. 
No lack of customers beating their bosoms and exploding 
with incredulity at the prices demanded. 
T. B. Aldrich, Poukapog to Pesth, p. 241. 
4. Inphyaiol., to break out or burst forth; be- 
come suddenly manifest in operation or effect. 
The irritation may exist as such for an indefinite time, 
or may so reduce the vitality and resisting power of the 
tissue of the disc and surrounding parts, as to develop 
gradually, or explode suddenly, into an actual inflamma- 
tion that is, into a neuritis. 
Alien, and Neural., VIII. 130. 
Exploding mass, in cephalopods. See extract under 
sjiermatopnore. 
explodent (eks-plo'dent), n. In philol., same 
as explosive, 2. 
exploder (eks-plo'der), i. 1. One who or that 
which explodes. 2f. A hisser ; one who rejects 
with contempt. 
According to the republican divinity of some scandalous 
exploders of the doctrine of passive obedience. 
South, Works, VI. vii. 
exploit (eks-ploif), it. [< ME. "exploit, esploit 
(also cxpleit, espleit, explait, esplait : see cxplait), 
advantage, achievement, < OF. esploit, esploict, 
earlier espleit, expleit, an exploit, action, deed, an 
execution of or upon a judgment, a seizure, the 
possession or using of a thing, also revenue, 
profit, etc., mod. F. exploit, an exploit, etc., a 
writ. = Pr. c^jilec, cspleg, espleit, espley, m., es- 
/ilirlm. f., < ML. "explictum, pi. explicta, also 
(altered partly in imitation of the OF., and 
partly by merging with L. cxpletus, pp. of ex- 
plere) exjili'tinn, <:rpletns, cxpleytus, etc., a ju- 
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dicial act, writ, execution, seizure, revenue, 
profit, products of land (expires, q. v. ), contr. 
of L. explicitum, neut. of L. explicitus, pp. of 
explicare, unfold, display, arrange, settle, ad- 
just, regulate, etc.: see explicate, and cf. plait, 
pleat.] 1. Achievement; performance; usu- 
ally, a deed or act of some exceptional or re- 
markable kind ; a conspicuous performance ; 
more especially, a spirited or heroic act; a 
great or noble achievement : as, the exploits of 
Alexander, of Csesar, of Wellington. 
He seem'd 
For dignity composed and high exi<l<t. 
Milton, V. L., ii. 111. 
His own exploits with boastful glee he told, 
What ponds he emptied and what pikes he sold. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 101. 
Looking back with sad admiration on exploits of youth- 
ful lustihood which could be enacted no more. 
Prof. Blackir. 
The recovery of Acre from the forces of the King of Na- 
ples . . . was the one brilliant exploit of a long and other- 
wise unhappy reign. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 181. 
2f. Advantage; benefit. 
The sail goth up and forth they straught, 
But none esploit therof they caught. 
Oower, Couf. Amant., II. 258. 
= Syn. 1. Deed, Feat, etc. See/ead. 
exploit (eks-ploif), v. [< ME. *exploiten, es- 
ploiten, also *expleiten, espleiten (see explait), < 
OF. esploiter, later exploieter, earlier espleiter, 
perform, despatch, execute, achieve, etc., mod. 
F. exploiter, cultivate, farm, work, grow, etc., = 
Pr. expleitar, exptectar, espleyar, explechar,'< ML. 
explectare, explictare, execute : from the noun.] 
1. trans. If. To achieve; accomplish. 
There ... a man may see well and diligently exploited 
and furnished, not only those things which husbandmen 
do commonly in other countries, as by craft and cunning 
to remedy the barrenness of the ground but also a whole 
wood by the hands of the people plucked up by the roots 
in one place, and set again in another place. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 7. 
He made haste to exploit some warlike service. Holland. 
2. To make complete use of; work up; bring 
into play; utilize; cultivate. [Recent, from 
modern French exploiter.] 
Perhaps it was as well that they did not exploit that 
passion of patriotism as an advertisement. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 89. 
Freedom that was the word ; the right of a man to 
exploit his nature from the top to the bottom. 
J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 96. 
Plutarch's dialogue " On the Cessation of Oracles " a 
quarry largely exploited by the poets, but still unexhausted. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., I. 181. 
Specifically 3. To employ or utilize selfishly ; 
turn to one's own advantage without regard to 
right or justice ; make subservient to self-in- 
terest. [Recent.] 
Better far, he [Marx] holds, for the labourer to stick to 
day's wages, for he can be much more easily and exten- 
sively exploited by the piece system. 
Hoe, Contemp. Socialism, p. 166. 
He exploits them all for his own service. 
G. Allen, Colin Clout's Calendar (1883), p. 118. 
In the economic field as amongst animals, in the strug- 
gle for existence and in the conflict of selfish interests, 
the strongest will crush or exploit the weakest, unless the 
State, as an organ of justice, intervene to secure to each 
what is his due. Orpen, tr. of Lavelaye's Socialism, p. 272. 
The noisy, passionate quarrel between the two factions 
of the ruling class about the question, which of the two 
exploited the labourers the more shamefully, was on each 
hand the midwife of the truth. 
Marx, Capital (trans.), xxv. 5. 
II. intrans. To make research or experiment ; 
explore. [Rare.] 
Some two years ago, M. Debay, a Belgian engineer, pro- 
posed to exploit for petroleum. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXX. 857. 
exploitable (eks-ploi'ta-bl), a. [= F. exploita- 
ble, < ML. explectabilis, <. explectare, exploit : see 
exploit, v.] Capable of being exploited, in any 
sense. 
It is not the diminished rate either of the absolute or 
of the proportional increase in labour-power, or labour- 
ing population, which causes capital to be in excess, but 
conversely this excess of capital that makes exploitable 
labour-power insufficient. Marx, Capital (trans.), xxv. 
exploitage (eks-ploi*taj), n. [< exploit + -age.] 
Same as exploitation, 2. 
It [mere profit-sharing with workmen m one's employ] 
would do nothing toward the extinction of explnitum'. 
William Morris, The Century, XXXII. 397. 
exploitation (eks-ploi-ta'shon), n. [< F. ex- 
ploitation, cultivation, improving, working, < 
exploiter, exploit: see exploit, v.] 1. The act or 
process of exploiting, making use of, or working 
up ; utilization by the application of industry, 
argument, or other means of turning to ac- 
explore 
count: as, the exploitation of a mine or a f'nn-st, 
of public opinion, etc. 
Joint stock companies, or associations of capital, are 
now very advantageously employed tor the MgTwUOtiofl \ 
different branches of industry. 
./. C. Brown, Reboisement in France, p. 201. 
Specifically 2. The act of exploiting solely 
for one's own purposes or advantage ; selfish 
use or employment, regardless of abstract right ; 
self -seeking utilization : as, the exploitation of 
the weak by the strong, or of the laborer by 
the capitalist. Also exploitage. 
M arx holds that the system of piece payment is so prone 
to abuse that when one door of exploitation shuts another 
only opens, and legislation will always remain ineffectual. 
Roe, Contemp. Socialism, p. 166. 
All who voluntarily engage in the exploitation of man 
by man, or of race by race, as opposed to the service of 
the common weal, are slave-drivers at heart. 
Westminster Rev., CXXV. 374. 
exploitative (eks-ploi'ta-tiv), a. Serving for 
or used in exploitation : as, exploitative indus- 
try. 
exploiter (eks-rloi'ter), n. [= F. exploiteur, < 
exploiter, exploit: see exploit, r.] 1. One who 
exploits or utilizes; one who works up or de- 
velops. 
Happy mining company, . . . these fortunate exploiters. 
The Nation, March 10, 1870, p. 152. 
Specifically 2. One who exploits selfishly, un- 
justly, or oppressively. 
The pockets of all the railroad exploiters of that State 
have now for some years been crammed with public money. 
The Xation, Feb. 17, 1870, p. 101. 
exploiter (eks-ploi'ter), v. t. [< exploiter, n.] 
An error for exploit. 
It is sad to see the well-meaning, but ignorant, disciples 
of this Church in America exploitered by a twofold Jesu- 
itry. Theodore Parker, Sermons on Theism, Atheism, 
[and Popular Theology. 
exploiture (eks-ploi'tur), n. [< exploit + -ure.] 
The act of exploiting' 
The commentaries of Julius Csesar, which he made of 
his exploiture in Fraunce and Britaine. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, i. 11. 
explorable (eks-plor'a-bl), a. [= F. explora- 
ble; as explore + -able.] Capable of being ex- 
plored. 
exploratet (eks-plo'rat), r. t. [< L. exploratus, 
pp. of explorare, explore: see explore.] To ex- 
plore. 
They [snails] will . . . exclude their homes, and there- 
with explorate their way. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 20. 
exploration (eks-plo-ra'shon), n. [= F. explo- 
ration = Sp. explordcion = Pg. explora$8o = It. 
esplorazione, < L. exploratio(n-), < explorare, ex- 
plore: see explore.] The act of exploring; 
search, examination, or investigation, espe- 
cially for the purpose of discovery; specifical- 
ly, the investigation of an unknown country or 
part of the earth. 
For the apostolical imposition of hands that there was 
an exploration of doctrine, and a profession of faith, the 
history doth manifestly witness. 
Bp. Hall, Imposition of Hands, Acts xix. 
Good folk, who dwell in a lawful land, . . . may for want 
of exploration judge our neighbourhood harshly. 
R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, p. 28. 
explorative (eks-pl6r'a-tiv), a. [< explorate + 
-ive.] Exploring; tending to explore; explor- 
atory. 
explorator (eks'plo-ra-tor), n. [== F. explora- 
teur = Sp. Pg. explorador = It. esploratore, < 
L. explorator, a searcher out, an examiner, 
scout, spy, skirmisher, etc., < explorare, ex- 
plore: see explore.] One who explores; one 
who searches or examines closely. [Rare.] 
This envious explorator or searcher for faults. 
Hallywell, Melampronoea, p. 92. 
exploratory (eks-plor'a-to-ri), a. [= OF. ex- 
ploiratoire, < L. explor'atorivs, < explorare, pp. 
exploratus, explore : see explore, explorator.] 
Exploring; searching; examining. 
All honor to the pioneers by whom this first exploratory 
work has been so nobly done. Geikie, Geol. Sketches, ii. 33. 
explore (eks-plor'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. explored, 
ppr. exploring. [= OF. explorer, esplorer, F. 
explorer = Sp. Pg. explorar = It. esplorare, < L. 
explorare, search out, seek to discover, investi- 
gate, explore, < ex, out, + plorare, cry out, wail, 
weep; cf. deplore.] If. To search for; look for 
with care and labor ; seek after. 
Explores the lost, the wand'ring sheep directs. 
Pope, Messiah, 1. 51. 
2. To search through, examine, or investigate, 
especially for the purpose of making discover- 
ies in general or for the discovery of some par- 
ticular thing; hence, to examine or search into 
