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EXAM'PLARY, adj. Serving for example or pattern ; 
propofed to imitation.—We are not of opinion that na¬ 
ture, in working, hath before her certain examplary 
draughts or patterns, which fubfifting in the bofom of the 
Higheft, and being thence difcovered, the fixeth her eye 
upon them. Hooker. 
EXAM'PLE, f. [exemple, Fr. exemplum, Lat.] Copy 
or pattern ; that which is propofed to be refembled or 
imitated.—The example and pattern of thofe his creatures 
he beheld in all eternity. Raleigh. —Precedent; former 
inftance of the like : 
So hot a fpeed, with fuch advice difpos’d. 
Such temp’rate order in fo fierce a courfe, 
Doth want Shakefpeare. 
Precedent of good.—Let us fhew an example to our bre¬ 
thren. Judith v iii. 24. 
Taught this by his example, whom I now 
Acknowledge my Redeemer ever bleft. Milton. 
A perfon fit to be propofed as a pattern.—Be thou an 
example of the believers. 1 Tim. —One punifhed for the 
admonition of others.—Sodom and Gomorrah, giving 
themfelves over to fornication, are fet forth for an exam¬ 
ple, Differing the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude 7.—In¬ 
fluence which difpofesto imitation.—When virtue is pre- 
fent, men take example at it ; and when it is gone, they 
defire it. Wifd. iv. 2.—Example is a motive of a very pre¬ 
vailing force on the aftion$ of men. Rogers .—Tnftance ; 
illuftration of a general pofition by fomp particular fpeci- 
fication.—Can we, for example, give the praile of valour 
to a man, who, feeing his gods prophaned, fhould want 
the courage to defend them ? Dryden. —Inftance in which 
a rule is illuftrated by an application.—My reafon is fuffi- 
eiently convinced both of the truth and ufefulnefs of his 
.precepts ; I have, at leaft in fome places, made examples 
to his rules. Dryden. 
7 o EXAM'PLE, v.a. To exemplify; to give an in¬ 
ftance of.—The proof whereof I law fufficiently exampled 
in thefe late wars of Munlter. Spenfer .—To fetanexample : 
Do villainy, do, fince you profefs to do 
Like workmen: I’ll example you with thievery. Shakejp. 
EXAMP'LESS, adj. Without example : 
That durft to ftrike 
At fo examplefs and unblamed a life. B. Jonfon, 
EXAJsTASTOMO'SIS, f. [from sPa'jarofjeocj,Gr .to relax 
or open.*) The opening of the mouths of the veffels to 
difeharge their contents: the meeting of the extremities 
of the veins and arteries. 
EXAN'GUIOUS, adj. [exanguis, Lat.] Having no 
blood ; formed with animal juices, not fanguineous.— 
Hereby they confound the generation of perfeft animals 
with imperfeft, fanguineous with exanguious. Brown. 
EXA'NIMATE, adj. \_exanimatus , Lat.] Litelefs ; 
dead ; fpiritlefs ; deprelfed : 
The grey mofn 
Lifts her pale luftre on the paler wretch. 
Exanimate by love. Thomfon. 
EXANIMA'TION, f. Deprivation of life. 
EXA'NIMOUS, adj. [ exanimis , Lat.] Lifelefs ; dead; 
killed. 
EXANTHE'MATA, f. Gr.] Effloref- 
cences ; eruptions; breaking out ; puftules. 
EXANTHE'MATOUS, adj. Puftulous; efflorefeent; 
eruptive, 
EXANTHRO'PI A,/, [from ef, without, and 
Gr. a man, i. e. having loft the faculties of a man.] A 
fpecies of melancholy wherein the patient fancies himfelf 
fome kind of brute. 
To EXANT'LATE, v. n. \_exantlo, Lat.] To draw 
out.—To exhauft ; to wafte away.—By time thofe feeds 
are wearied or exantlatcd } or unable to aft their parts any 
"longer. Boyle.. 
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EXANTLA'TION, f. The aft of drawing out; ex- 
hauftion. 
EXARA'TION, f. [exaro, Lat.] The manual aft of 
writing ; the manner of manual writing. 
EX'ARCH,/ in antiquity, an appellation given, by the 
emperors of the eaft, to certain officers fent into Italy, in 
quality of vicars, or prefefts, to govern that part of Italy 
which was under their obedience. The refidence of the 
exarch was at Ravenna ; which city, with that of Rome, 
were all that was left the emperors. The firft exarch 
was the patrician Boetius, famous for his treatife, Be Con - 
folatione Philofophia ; appointed in 568 by the younger 
Juftin. The exarchs fubfifted about 185 years, and ended 
in Eu tychius; under whofe exarchate the city of Ravenna 
was taken by the Lombard king Aftulphus, or Aftolphus. 
The emperor Frederic created Heraclius, archbilhop of 
Lyons, exarch of Burgundy ; a dignity till that time un¬ 
known any where but in Italy. 
EX'ARCHATE, or Exarch Y,y. The office, dignity, 
and jurifdiftion, of an exarch. On the map of Italy the 
meafureof the exarchate occupies a very inadequate fpace, 
but it included an ample proportion of wealth, induftry, 
and population. See the article Italy. 
EXARTHRE'MA,yi [from Gr. to put out of 
joint. ] A diflocation or luxation. 
EXARTICULA'TION,/. [exand articulus, Lat.] The 
dillocation of a bone from tire focket. 
EXA'RYSIS,/'. [from eijoc^vu, Gr. to draw out.] Ex- 
hauftion ; decay of ftrength. 
To EXAS'PERATE, v. a. \_exafpero, Lat.] To pro¬ 
voke ; to enrage ; to irritate ; to anger; to make furious t 
To take the widow, 
Exafperates, makes mad her filter Goneril. Shakefpeare. 
To heighten a difference ; to aggravate ; to embitter.—» 
When ambition is unable to attain its end, it is not only 
wearied, but exajperated attire vanity of itslabours. Parncl. 
—To exacerbate ; to heighten malignity.—The plafter 
alone would pen the humour already contained in the 
part, and fo exafperate it. Bacon. 
EXASPER A'TER, f. One that exafperates ; or pro¬ 
vokes ; a provoker. 
EXASPERA'TION, f. Aggravation; malignant re- 
prefentation_My going to demand juftice upon the five 
members, nry enemies loaded with all the obloquies and 
exafperations tlrjsy could. King Charles. —Provocation; irri¬ 
tation ; incitenrent to rage.—Their ill ufage and exafpera¬ 
tions of him, and his zeal for maintaining his argument, 
difpofed him to take liberty. Atterbury. 
To EXAUC'TORATE, v. afexauBoro , Lat.] To dif- 
mifs from fervice.—To deprive of a benefice.—Arch he- 
reticks, in the primitive days of Chriftianity, were by the 
church treated with no other punifnment than excommu¬ 
nication, and by exauBorating and depriving them of their 
degree therein. Aylijfe. 
EXAUCTORA' 1ION, f. Difmiffion from fervice.— 
Deprivation ; degradation.—Depofition, degradation, or 
exauBoration, is nothing elfe but the removing of a perfon; 
from fome dignity or order in the church, and depriving 
him of his ecclefiaftical preferments. Aylijfe. 
EX'CA, or Ecsa, a town of Spain, in the kingdom of 
Aragon : twenty-five miles north-weft of Saragoffa. 
EXC ALCE A'TION,jfi among the Hebrews, was a par¬ 
ticular law, whereby a widow, whom her hufband’s bro¬ 
ther refufed to marry, had a right to fummon him to a 
court of juftice ; and, upon his refufal, might excalceate 
him, that is, pull off one of his flioes, and fpit in his face ; 
both of them aftions of great ignominy. 
EXCAM'BIATOR, /. In old records, one employed 
in exchanging of lands, a kind of broker. 
EXCAM'BIUM,yi [Latin.] An exchange, a place 
where merchants meet to tranfaft their bufinefs. 
EXCANDES'CENCE, or Excandescency, /. [ex- 
candejco, Lat.] Heat; the ftate of growing hot; anger 5 
the ftate of growing angry. 
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