extra-uterine 
cases of pregnancy ill which the fetus is con- 
tained in some organ exterior to the uterus. 
extravagance (eks-trav'a-gans), 11. [< OF. and 
F. extravagance = Sp. Pg. Kctravaganoia = It. 
estravaganza,strava(jan:a. extravagance, < ML. 
extravagan(t-), extravagant: see extravagant.'] 
1. A wandering beyond proper bounds ; an ex- 
cursion or a sally out of the usual way, course, 
or limit. [Now rare.] 
I have troubled you too far with this extravagance : I 
shall make no delay to recall myself into the road again. 
Hammond. 
2. An extravagant action, or such actions col- 
lectively ; a going beyond proper limits in ac- 
tion, conduct, or feeling; the overdoing of 
something; specifically, lavish outlay or ex- 
penditure. 
The extravagances of a man of genius are as sure of imi- 
tation as the equable self-possession of his higher moments 
is incapable of it. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 317. 
3. The quality of being extravagant; exces- 
siveness or unreasonableness in amount or de- 
gree; exorbitance: as, extravagance of expen- 
diture, demands, conduct, passion, etc. 
Some verses of my own, Maximin anil Almanzor, cry 
vengeance upon me for their extravagance. Drijden. 
The income of three dukes was not enough to supply her 
extravagance. Arbuthnot. 
In modern times there exists an immense body of estab- 
lished scientific truth, which checks the natural extrava- 
gance of the intellect left to itself. 
J. Fiske, Cosmic Philos., I. 103. 
= Syn. Wildness, irregularity, absurdity, excess, exorbi- 
tance, unreasonableness, profusion, waste, dissipation, 
bombast. 
extravagancy (eks-trav'a-gan-si), n. [As ex- 
travagance : see -ancij.] Extravagance ; a wan- 
dering; especially, a wandering out of or be- 
yond the usual or proper course ; a wild or li- 
centious departure from custom or propriety; 
a vagary. [Now rare.] 
My determinate voyage is mere extravagancy. 
Shak., T. N., iL 1. 
Such is the Extravagancy of some that they will lay 
Wagers he [the King of Sweden) is not yet dead. 
Howell, Letters, I. vi. 6. 
Precious liquor, warmed and heightened by a flame, 
first crowns the vessel, and then dances over its brim 
into the fire, increasing the cause of its own motion and 
extravagancy. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 44. 
extravagant (eks-trav'a-gant), a. and . [< 
OF. and F. extravagant = Sp. Pg. extravagante 
= It. estravagante, stravagante, < ML. extrava- 
rn(t-)s, pp. of extravagari, wander beyond, < 
extra, beyond, + vagari, wander, stray: see 
vagrant,'] I. a. 1. Wandering beyond bounds 
or out of the regular course ; straying. [Now 
rare.] 
The extravagant and erring spirit hies 
To his confine. Shak., Hamlet, i. 1. 
Walking about the solitudes [at Tunbridge Wells], I 
greatly admired the extravagant turnings, insinuations, 
and growth of certaine birch trees among the rocks. 
Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 15, 1661. 
Hare, extravagant spirits come by us at intervals, who 
disclose to us new facts in nature. Emerson, History. 
2. Exceeding just or reasonable limits ; exces- 
sive; exorbitant; unreasonable; lavish: as, the 
demands or desires of men are often extrava- 
gant ; extravagant living or expenditure. 
His people persuaded me to send back my horses, and 
promised I should be well furnish'd, but I found myself 
obliged to hire very bad horses at an extravagant price. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 59. 
Of Pope himself he [Byron] spoke with extravagant ad- 
miration. Macaulay, Moore's Byron. 
3. Not comprised within ordinary limits of 
truth, probability, or propriety; irregular; wild; 
fantastic : as, extravagant flights of fancy. 
For a dance they seem'd 
Somewhat extravagant and wild. 
Milton, P. L., vi. 616. 
There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in 
great geniuses. Addison. 
Where ceremony is dominant in social intercourse, ex- 
travagant compliments are addressed to private persons. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 345. 
4. Exceeding necessity or prudence in expen- 
diture ; wasteful ; prodigal ; profuse : as, an ex- 
travagant purchase ; an extravagant man. 
He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and 
poverty will enforce dependence and invite corruption. 
Johnson, Rambler. 
= Syn. 2 and 3. Inordinate, exorbitant, unconscionable, 
absurd. 4. Extravagant, Profuse, Lavish, Wasteful, Prod- 
igal, reckless. Extravagant and prodigal refer more often 
to habits or character, the others to acts. All apply to 
that which is immoderate or unreasonable in quantity or 
degree ; wasteful to that which is injuriously so. One 
may be extravagant or wasteful with a small sum ; it re- 
quires a large sum to enable one to be profuse, lavish, or 
prodigal. Lavish is stronger than profuse. Prodigal, 
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perhaps from association with the yroMjal son of Luke 
xv. 11-32, suggests most of immorality and reprobation. 
All these words have lighter figurative uses. 
An extravagant man, who has nothing else to recom- 
mend him but a false generosity, is often more beloved 
than a person of a much more finished character who is 
defective in this particular. Addison. 
Yet was she not profuse ; but fear'd to waste, 
And wisely managed, that the stock might last. 
Dryden, Eleonora, 1. 65. 
There is one quality of Macaulay's nature, and that, 
perhaps, the best, which is deserving of lavish eulogium 
his intense love of liberty, and his hearty hatred of des- 
potism. Whipple, Ess. and Rev., I. 21. 
extreme 
or effused ; escape, as blood, lymph, or serum, 
from its proper vessels into surrounding tissues. 
He still mends, but abundance of extravasated blood 
has come out of the wound. Swift, To Stella, xviii. 
As if the light which was once in those sickly green pu- 
pils had extraeasated into the white part of the eye. 
Thackeray, Catharine, p. 538. 
extravasate (eks-trav'a-sat), a. l<ML.extrava- 
see the verb.] ' Extravasated. [Kare.] 
I'm told one clot of blood extravasate 
Ends one as certainly as Roland's sword. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 242. 
Long, cumbrous, and wasteful processes of natural se- extravasation (eks-trav-a-sa'shon), . [= F. 
lection and hereditary descent. extravasation = Sp. extravasation = Pg. extra- 
vasacao; as extravasate + -ion.] The effusion 
Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the . *';. i flll :j ;( thp tissues surronndinc- 
compass of a guinea. Irving, The Stout Gentleman. ?I an animal nuio. into 
its proper vessel, from which it has escaped in 
COI e( ence of ruptul . e or morbid permeabil- 

II. n If. One who wanders about; a vagrant; 
Therefore returue, if yee be wise, you fall into the ditch 
els and enter the cittie againe, for if there hee be not, he 
is a verie extravagant, and has no abiding. 
ity: as, extravasation of blood or of urine. 
Perhaps also causing some extravasation, as we see that 
wounds and bruises are attended with some inflammation, 
more or less, of the part affected. Boyle, Works, II. 88. 
Rowley, Search for Money (1609). 
Ordinarie officers are bound cheefly to their flocks, Acts extravasCUlar (eks-tra-vas'ku-lar), a. 
1. Be- 
j t f th p roper veggel or vessels ; without 
a&net ve8se Fs : applied especially to the free 
20 28, and are not to be extravagants, to goe, come, and 
leave them at their pleasurs *- 
2. One whois^d^o'^g^aT^^n %^^^^%SS5& 
eccentric. [Bare.] Qr arterieg _ 2 No nvascular : applied to parts 
There are certain extravagants zmoug^peovleo^Miizes W j 1 i ch have no blood-vessels : as, cuticle and 
cartilage are extravascular structures. 
3 pi. (a) A part of the body of canon law : as, extravenatet (eks-tri^ve'nat), a. [< L. extra, 
the bxtravagantsot John XXII. and the Extra- outs i de , + vena, a vein, + -ofei. Cf. extrava- 
vagantes communes of other popes : so called be- sate -, L et out of the veins, 
cause they treated of matters not in the decre- 
tals (extra decretum vagdbantur). 
All these together, Gratian's decree, Gregory's decretals, 
the sixth decretal, the Clementine constitutions, and the 
T]mt there | ft m ck rf curlng wounds by 
anointing the weapon, and that the wound is affected in 
like manner as is the extravenate bloud by the sympathet- 
ic medicine, is for matter of fact put out of doubt by the 
noble SirK. Digby. Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xxi. 
, 
extravaganti of John and his successors, form the corpus 
juris canonici, or body of the R^m^canoj, law. ^ ^ ^ extraversiont (eks-tra-ver'shon), n. 
The accretions of the Decretum, the Extravagants, as 
they were called that is, the authoritative sentences of 
the Popes which were not yet codified were many of them 
conveyed in answers to English bishops, or brought at once 
to England by the clergy, with the same avidity that law- 
yers now read the terminal reports in the Law Journal. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 306. 
[<L.ex- 
tra, outside, + ML. rersio(n-), a turning: see 
version. Cf. extroversion.] The act of throwing 
out ; the state of being turned or thrown out or 
outward. 
Nor does there intervene heat to afford them any colour 
to pretend that there is made an extraversion of the sul- 
phur, or of any of the two other supposed principles. 
Boyle. 
(6) A collection of Jewish traditions, published 
at the end of the second century extrayt, v. t. [ME. extrayen, extraien, < OF. ex- 
extravagantly (eks-trav'a-gant-li), adv. In an trai > ^ extr aire = Pr. estraire = Sp. extraer 
extra vagant manner; unreasonably; absurdly ; - . . .. r T . 
excessively; with unjustifiable profuseness: as, 
to act, dress, or live extravagantly ; to be ex- 
travagantly fond of pleasure. 
Passing abreast of me, he ... stuck an arm akimbo, 
lirked 
= Pg. extrahir = It. estrarre, strarre, < L. extra- 
here, draw out, extract: see extract, v.] To ex- 
and smi 
extravagantly by. 
Dickens, Great Expectations, xxx. 
My Lord extravagantly entertaining : telling some capi- 
tal stories about old Bishop Horsley, which were set off 
with some of the drollest mimicry that I ever saw. 
Macaulay, Life and Letters, I. 283. 
extravagantness (eks-trav'a-gant-nes), TO. Ex- 
travagance. Bailey, 1727. 
extravaganza (eks-trav-a-gan'za), n. [With 
ex- for es-, < It. estravaganza, extravagance : 
And so y made hem extraie me ensaumples of the Bible 
and other bokes that y had. And y made hem rede me 
eueri boke ; and ther that y fonde a goode ensaumple y 
made extraie it out. 
Boot of the Knight of La Tour Landry, p. 3. 
[A var. of estreat, ex- 
extreatt (eks-tref), n. 
tract.] Extraction. 
Some Clarkes doe doubt in their devicefull art 
Whether this heavenly thing whereof I treat, 
To weeten Mercie, be of Justice part, 
Or drawne forth from her by divine extreate. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. x. 1. 
see extravagance.] 1. Something out of rule, extreet (eks'tre), n. [< ME. extre; a var. of ax- 
as in music, the drama, etc.; a composition tree e qui v . to axletree, q. v.] An axletree. 
characterized by extravagant fantastic or ca- thorow 
pncious qualities, as "Hudibras" or "Bom- ho]e Chaucer, Astrolabe, i. 14. 
extravaganza 
zas. 
Cornelius Webbe is one of the best of that numerous 
school of extravaganzists who sprang from the ruins of 
Lamb. Pope, Marginalia, cxv. 
extravagate (eks-trav'a-gat), v. i. [< ML. 
extravagatvs, pp. of extravagari (> F. extrava- 
guer), wander beyond: see extravagant.] To 
wander irregularly or beyond due limits. 
When the body plunges into the luxury of sense, the 
mind will extravagate through all the regions of a vitiated 
imagination. Warburton, Sermons, xx. 
Adventures endless, spun 
By the dismantled warrior in old age, 
Out of the bowels of those very schemes 
In which his youth did first extravagate. 
Wordsworth, Prelude, v. 
extravagationt (eks-trav-a-ga'shon), n. [< ex- 
travagate + -ion.] Excess; a wandering be- 
yond limits. 
I do not pretend to justify the extravagations of the mob. 
Smollett. 
extravasate (eks-trav'a-sat), v. i. ; pret. and 
pp. estravasated, ppr. extravasating. [< ML. ex- 
ti-nntsntug, only as adj., as if pp. of *extravasare 
(> Sp. extramsar(se) = Pg. extravasar = F. ex- 
travaser), < L. extra, beyond, + vas, vessel: see 
vase, vessel.] In pathol., to become infiltrated 
tremo, stremo, < L. extremes, outermost, utmost, 
superl. of exter, outer, outward: see exterior.] 
1. a. 1. Outermost; situated at the utmost 
limit, point, or border; furthest of all; largest 
or smallest or last: as, the extreme verge or 
edge of a roof or a precipice ; the extreme limit 
or hour of life. [Although the word is superlative in 
itself, the superlative suffix is sometimes added for em- 
phasis: as, " the extremest shore," Southey.} 
Thy extreme hope, the loveliest and the last. 
Shelley, Adonais, vi. 
Behind the standing figure on the extreme left six ob- 
jects are ranged on the edge of the chaton, so as to follow 
its curve. C. T. Newton, Art and Archffiol., p. 268. 
2. Utmost or greatest in degree; the most, 
greatest, best, or worst that can exist or be 
supposed ; such as cannot be exceeded : as, ex- 
treme pain or grief ; extreme joy or pleasure ; an 
extreme case. 
To forbid the overflowings and intercourses of pity upon 
such occasions were the extremest of euils. 
Bacon, Moral Fables, vii., Expl. 
Why, therefore, fire : for I have caught extreme cold. 
Shak., T. of the S., iv. 1. 
God ever mindful in all strife and strait, 
Who, for our own good, makes the need extreme, 
Till at the last He puts forth might and saves. 
Brimming, Ring and Book, II. 50. 
