exsufflation 
exsufflation (ek-suf-la'shou), 11. [< Ui'. rx*nf- 
flation, < ML. exeufflatio(n-\ the form of exsuf- 
flating the devil, < LL. exsufflare, exgufflate : 
.see exsufflate.] If. A blowing or blast. 
Of volatility the ... next (degree] is when it will liy 
upwards over the helni, by a kind of exifujftatwn, without 
vapouring. Bacon, Physiological Remains. 
2. A kind of exorcism, performed by blowing 
at the evil spirit. See exsufflate. 
That wondrous number of ceremonies in exorcism, ex- 
ttnjflation, use of salt, spittle, inunction, Ac., in the Chun 1 1 
of Rome required. 
T. Puller, Moderation of Church of Eng., p. >&>. 
exsufflet, *'. t. [< OF. exsuffler, < LL. exsufflare, 
blow away, blow at or upon by way of exorcism : 
see exsufflate.] To exsufflate. 
At Easter and Whitsontide . . . they which were to be 
baptized were attired in white garments, exorcised, and 
exmjfled, with sundrie ceremonies, which I leave to the 
learned in Christian antiquities. 
Holland, tr. of Camden's Britain, p. 768. 
exsufflicatet (ek-suf 'li-kat), a. [A blunder, or 
deliberate extension for the sake of the meter 
(cf. Shakspere's intrinsecate, a similar false 
form), for exsufflate, a., < LL. exsufflatus, pp. of 
exsufflare, blow away, blow at or upon : see ex- 
sufflate, .] A word of uncertain meaning (see 
etymology) used by Shakspere in the following 
passage, explained as meaning either 'blown 
away, exorcised' that is, 'renounced, reject- 
ed as evil' or 'puffed out, exaggerated': 
When I shall turn the business of my 8oul 
To such exsujflicate and blow'd surmises. 
Shak., Othello, lii. 3. 
exsuperablet (ek-su'pe-ra-bl), a. [Also spelled 
exuperable; < L. exsuperabilis, exuperabilis, that 
may be overcome, < exsuperare, exuperare, over- 
come : see exsuperate.] Capable of being exsu- 
perated. 
exsuperancet (ek-su'pe-rans), n. [Also spelled 
exuperance; < L. exsuperantia, exuperantia, pre- 
eminence, < exsuperan(t-)s, preeminent: see ex- 
superant.] A passing over or beyond; a sur- 
passing; excess. 
The exuperance of the density of A to water is 10 degrees, 
but the exuperance of B to the same water is 100 degrees. 
Sir A'. Digby, Of Bodies, x. 
exsuperantt (ek-su'pe-rant), a. [Also spelled 
exuperant; < L. exsuperan(t-)s, exuperan(t-)s, 
surpassing, preeminent, ppr. of exsuperare, exu- 
perare, surpass : see exsuperate.] Passing over 
or beyond ; surpassing. 
exsuperatet (ek-su'pe-rat), v. t. [Also spelled 
exuperate; < L. exsuperatus, exuperatus, pp. of 
exsuperare, exuperare, mount up, appear above, 
tr. surmount, surpass, exceed, < ex, out, + su- 
perare, rise above, surmount, surpass, < super, 
above : see super-.] To pass over or beyond ; 
surpass; exceed; surmount. 
exsurgent (ek-ser'jent), a. [Also spelled ex- 
urgent; < L. exsurgen(t-)s, exurgen(t-)s, ppr. of 
exsurgere, exurgere, rise up, < ex, out, + surgere, 
rise: see surge and source. Cf. insurgent, re- 
surgent.'} Rising up. 
exsuscitatet (ek-sus'i-tat), v. t. [Also spelled 
exuscitate; < L. exsuscitatus, pp. of exsuscitare, 
arouse from sleep, awaken, stir, excite, < ex, 
out, + suscitare, lift up, raise, elevate, excite, 
< *&, under, + citare, move, rouse, excite, call, 
cite: see cite, excite. Cf. resuscitate.} To rouse; 
excite. 
exsuscitationt (ek-sus-i-ta'shon), n. [Also 
spelled exuscitation ; < L. exsuscitatio(n-), < 
exsuscitare, arouse: see exsuscitate.] A rous- 
ing or exciting. 
Virtue is not a thing that is merely acquired and trans- 
fused into us from without, but rather an exsuscitation 
... of those intellectual principles . . . which were es- 
sentially engraven and sealed upon the soul at her first 
creation. Halbjwell, Excellency of Moral Virtue, p. 54. 
extancet (eks'tans), n. [See extancy.] A stand- 
ing out to view ; actual existence. 
Who [God] hath in his intellect the ideal existences of 
things and entities before their extances. 
Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., iii. 25. 
extancyt (eks'tan-si), . [Also extance; < L. 
extantia, exstaniia, a standing out, prominence, 
< extan(t-)s, exstan(t-)s, ppr. of extare, exstare, 
stand out, etc.: see extant.] 1. The state of 
standing out or being manifest or conspicuous. 
2. A part rising above the rest. 
And then it is odds but the order of the little extancieg, 
and consequently that of the little depressions in point of 
situation, will be altered likewise. Boyle, Works, I. 687. 
extant (eks'tant or eks-tant'), a. [= F. extant 
(OF. estant = Sp. Pg. cstante, extant, existing, 
being in part from the simple L. stan(t-)s, ppr.), 
< L. extan(t-)s, exstan(t-)s, ppr. of extare, exstare, 
2090 
stand out, stand forth, be visible, appear, exist, 
be, < ex, out, + stare, stand : see stand. Cf. con- 
ftunt, instant, restant.] If. Standing out or 
above any surface ; protruding. 
That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums. 
Kay. 
If a body have part of it extant and part of it immersed 
in lluiil. then so much of the fluid as is equal in bulk to 
UK- immersed part shall be equal in gravity to the whole. 
Bentley. 
2. Conspicuous; manifest; evident; publicly 
known. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
Tis extant, that which we call comedia was at first no- 
thing but a simple continued song. B. Jonson. 
This glory of God, consisting in making Himself extant 
to His creatures, began with creation, when the morning 
stars sang together. 
//. B. Smith, System of Theology, p. 138. 
3. Now being; now subsisting ; still existing; 
not destroyed or lost: as, the extant works of 
the Greek philosophers. 
His [Athelstan's] Laws are extant among the Laws of 
other Saxon Kings to this day. Milton, Hist. Eng., v. 
I do not know that there is to this Day extant in our 
Language one Ode contriv'd after his Model. 
Conyreve, Discourse on the Pindaric Ode. 
His despatches form one of the most amusing and in- 
structive collections extant. Macaulay, Machiavelli. 
extasyt, extatict. See ecstasy, ecstatic. 
extemporalt (eks-tem'po-ral), a. [= Sp. extem- 
poral = It. estemporale, < Li extemporalis, on the 
spur of the moment, extempore, < extempore: 
see extempore.] Extemporary ; extemporane- 
ous. 
Many foolish things fall from wise men, if they speak 
in haste or be extemporal. B. Jonson, Discoveries. 
Demades (that passed Demosthenes 
For all extemporal orations). 
Chapman, Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, iii. 1. 
extemporalityt (eks-tem-po-ral'i-ti), n. [< ex- 
temporal + -ity.] A promptness or readiness 
to speak without premeditation or study. Bai- 
ley, 1727. 
extemporallyt (eks-tem'po-ral-i), adv. With- 
out premeditation ; extemporaneously. 
The quick comedians 
Extemporally will stage us, and present 
Our Alexandrian revels. Shak., A. and C., v. 2. 
extemporaneant (eks-tem-po-ra'ne-an), a. 
Same as extemporaneous. 
And for those other faults of barbarisme, Dorick dialect, 
extemporanean stile, tautologies, apish imitation, etc. 
Burton, Democritus to the Reader, p. 9. 
extemporaneous (eks-tem-po-ra'ne-us), a. [= 
Sp. extempordneo = It. estemporaneo, < L. as if 
*extetnporaneus, equiv. to extemporalis : see ex- 
temporal.] Made, done, furnished, or procured 
at the time, without special preparation; re- 
sulting from or provided for the immediate oc- 
casion ; unpremeditated : as, an extemporaneous 
address or performance; extemporaneous sup- 
port or shelter. 
The extemporaneous effusions of the glowing bard seem 
naturally to have fallen into this measure, and it was 
probably more easily suited to the voice or harp. 
T. Wartoii, Hist. Eng. Poetry, I. i. 
Extemporaneous prayer, in the pulpit and out of it, is 
full of language which needs constant watching lest it 
should become effete. A. Phelps, Eng. Style, p. 149. 
= Syn. Extemporaneous, Unpremeditated. There is now 
some disposition to apply extempore and extemporaneous 
to that which is unpremeditated only in form. Extempo- 
raneous speaking or preaching is, by this view, carefully 
prepared in thought, arrangement, etc., only the choice 
of words and phraseology being left to the inspiration of 
the moment. Extemporary has not this sense. Unpre- 
meditated is thus opposed to premeditated, and extempo- 
raneous to written or recited. 
It is only the form, like the occasion, that is extempo- 
raneous. 
It. W. Beecher, Yale Lect. on Preaching, 1st ser., p. 216. 
My celestial patroness, who . . . 
. . . dictates to me slumbering, or inspires 
Easy my unpremeditated verse. 
Milton, P. I.., ix. 24. 
extemporaneously (eks-tem-po-ra'ne-us-li), 
adr. in an extemporaneous manner ; without 
preparation. 
extemporaneousness (eks - tem - po - ra ' nf - us- 
nes), n. The quality of being extemporaneous. 
Extemporaneousness, again, a favorable circumstance to 
impassioned eloquence, is death to Rhetoric. 
De Quincey, Rhetoric. 
extemporarily(eks-tem'po-ra-ri-li), adv. With- 
out previous study or preparation. 
To prevent those that are yet children to speak r.rf. / 
jwrarily is to give them occasion to talk extream idly. 
Plutarch, Morals (trans.), I. i. 19. 
extemporary (eks-tem'po-ra-ri), a. [< L. as if 
"extemporarius, equiv. to extemporalis: see ex- 
temporal.] 1. Composed, performed, uttered, 
extend 
or applied without previous study or prepara- 
tion: as, an extemporary sermon. 
I believe they have an extemporary knowledge, and upon 
the first motion of their reason do what we cannot with- 
out study or deliberation. 
Sir T. Bmicne, Religio Medici, i. 33. 
2. Made or procured for the occasion or for the 
present purpose ; extemporaneous. 
\ providence ministering to our natural necessities, by 
an extemporary provision. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 194. 
Those who first planted here, finding so delicious a sit- 
uation, were in haste to come to the enjoyment of it ; and 
therefore nimbly set up those extemporary habitations. 
Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 125. 
= 8yn. See extemporaneous. 
extempore (eks-tem'po-re), adv., a., and n. 
[Prop, an adv. phrase, L. ex tempore, on the spur 
of the moment, forthwith, lit. out of the mo- 
ment : ex, out of, from ; tempore, abl. of tem pun, 
time, point of time, moment: see temporal.] 
1. adv. On the spur of the moment; without 
previous study or preparation ; offhand: as, to 
write or speak extempore. 
Prithee sing a verse extempore in honour of it. 
B. Jonnon, Volpone, ii. 1. 
He had, in a long and eloquent speech, delivered extem- 
pore, confuted the accusation of his enemies. 
Goldsmith, Hist. Eng., II. iii. 
My resolution never again to make acquaintances ex- 
tevipore. T. Hook, Gilbert Gurney, I. iv. 
II. a. Extemporary; extemporaneous. 
The body of the book is made up of mere tradition, and 
as it were vehement enthusiastic extempore preaching. 
Carlyle. 
= 8yn. See extemporaneous. 
III. n. Language uttered or written without 
previous preparation. [Rare.] 
God himself prescribed a set form of blessing the peo- 
ple, appointing it to be done, not in the priest's extem- 
pore, but in an established form of words. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 260. 
extemporlnesst (eks-tem'po-ri-nes), . [< ex- 
tempore, a., + -ness.] Extemporaneousness. 
Bailey, 1727. 
extemporization (eks-tem'po-ri-za'shon), . 
[< extemporise + -ation.] 1. T^he act of extem- 
porizing; a speaking, performing, or contriv- 
ing without premeditation, or with scanty prep- 
aration or means. 2. A musical performance, 
either vocal or instrumental, improvised by the 
performer. 
Also spelled extemporisation. 
extemporize (eks-tem'po-riz), v.; pret. and pp. 
extemporized, ppr. extemporizing. [< extempore 
+ -i:e.] I. trans. 1. To make or provide for a 
sudden and unexpected occasion; prepare in 
haste with the means within one's reach: as, 
to extemporize a speech or a dinner; to extem- 
porize a couch or a shelter. 
Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a 
Queen's speech. Lord Campbell, Eldon. 
The fraternization to lie successful should not have 
been extemporized in the heats of a strike. 
The American, VI. 307. 
Specifically 2. To compose without premedi- 
tation on a special occasion: as, he extempo- 
rized a brilliant accompaniment. 
H. intrans. 1. To speak extempore; speak 
without previous study or preparation; dis- 
course without notes or written draft. 
The extemporizing faculty is never more out of its ele- 
ment than in the pulpit. South, Works, II. lii. 
Preachers are prone either to extemporize always, or to 
write always. A. Phelpi, Eng. Style, p. 109. 
2. To sing, or play on an instrument, compos- 
ing the music as it proceeds ; improvise. See 
improvise. Extemporizlng-machine, a machine for 
recording an extemporaneous performance on the organ 
or piano, by means of mechanism connected with the key- 
board. Several such machines have been invented, one 
by the great mathematician Euler. 
Also spelled extemporise. 
extemporizer (eks-tem'po-ri-zer), . One who 
extemporizes. Also spelled extemporiser. 
extend (eks-tend'), v. [< ME. extenden, < OF. 
exteudre, estendre, F. ttendre = Pr. estendre, ex- 
tendre = Sp. Pg. extender = It. estendere, sten- 
dere, < L. extendere. pp. extentus, later, and in 
derivatives, extensus (cf. Gr. cKrcivctv: see ecta- 
sis), stretch out, < ex, out, + tendere, pp. tentus, 
stretch (cf. Gr. reivfiv, stretch): see tend 1 , ten- 
sion. Cf. attend, contend, intend, pretend.] I. 
trans. 1. To stretch out in any direction, or 
in all directions ; carry forward or continue in 
length or enlarge in area; expand or dilate: 
as, to extend roads, limits, or bounds ; to extend 
the territories of a kingdom ; to extend a metal 
plate by hammering. 
