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covering new faults; and if it is there found that the offi¬ 
cer has before been admonifhed and reprimanded fo often, 
that there are no hopes of his amending, lie is then dif- 
charged. The faid book is likewife reforted to, when ap¬ 
plication is made foradvancirlg or preferring an officer into 
a better poll. Frequent admonitions or reprimands, are 
a bar to preferment, unlefs they are of old (landing ; but 
if for three years laft he (lands clear of admonitions and re¬ 
primands, thofe of elder date are not regarded. 
The collector’s bufinefs is, every fix weeks to go his 
rounds, and in the intervals of rounds, he is to be aftift- 
ing in profecuting offenders before the juftices ; he isalfo 
to penile the fu'pervifor’s diaries, and where he finds an 
officer complained of, is to examine him and the fuper- 
vifor, and having heard both, is in the margin to write his 
opinion of each fact ; he is alfo to have an eye how the 
(upervifors and officers of his collection perform their du¬ 
ties, and from the vouchers he tranfcribes into his book, 
the charge on each particular perfon in his collection. 
The excife was firft introduced at Rome by Auguftus, 
after the civil wars ; it was extremely moderate, but it 
was general. It feldom exceeded one per cent, and it com- 
prehended whatever was fold in the markets, or by pub¬ 
lic auction, from the mod confiderable purchafes of lands 
and houfes, to thofe minute objects which can only derive 
a value from their infinite multitude and daily confuqip- 
tion. Such a tax, as it affefted the body of the people, 
occafioned clamour and difcontent at Rome, perhaps in a 
much.higher degree than was experiencecTin this country 
on its introduction to our permanent taxes. 
To EX'CISE, v. a. To levy excife upon a perfon or 
thing : 
In South-Sea days, not happier when furmis’d 
The lord of thoufands, than if now excis'd. Pope. 
EXCISEMAN, f. An officer who infpefts commodi¬ 
ties, and rates their excife. 
EXCl'SION, f. \_exc.ifio, Lat.] Extirpation; deftruc- 
tion ; ruin ; the aft of cutting off ; the (late of being cut 
off.—Pride is one of the fataleft inftruments of excifion. 
Decay of Piety .—.Such conquerors are the inftruments of 
vengeance on thofe nations that have filled up the mea- 
fure of iniquities, and are grown ripe for excifion. Atterbury. 
—Excifion, as praftifedon females in Africa, fee the ar¬ 
ticle Eunuch, p. 65, of this volume. 
EXCITA'TION, f [from excito, Lat. to excite.] The 
aft of exciting, or putting into motion.—All putrefaftions 
come from the ambient body, either by ingrefs of the am¬ 
bient body into the body putrefied, or by excitation and fo- 
licitation of the body putrefied, by the body ambient. 
Bacon. —The aft of roufing or awakening.—The original 
of fenfible and fpiritual ideas may be owing to fenfation 
and reflection, the recolleftion and frefh excitationoi them 
to other occafions. Watts. 
To EXCI'TE, v. a. [ excito , Lat.] To roufe ; to ani¬ 
mate ; to ftir up ; to encourage.—That kind of poefy 
which excites to virtue the greateft men, is ofgreateft life 
to human kind. Dryden. —To put in motion ; to awaken ; 
to raife. 
EXCI'TEMENT, f. The motive by which one is 
ftirred up, animated, or put in aftion : 
How (land I then, 
That have a father kill’d, a mother ftain’d, 
Excitements of my reafon and my blood, 
And let all deep r Shakefpeare. 
EXCI'TER, f. One that ftirs up others, or puts them 
in motion.—They never punifhed the delinquency of the 
tumults and their exciters. King Charles. —The caufe by 
which any thing is railed or put in motion.—Hope is the 
grand exciter of induftrv. Decay of Piety. 
To EXCLA'IM, v. n. [ exclamo , Lat.] To cry out with 
vehemence ; to make an outcry ; to cry out queruloufly 
andoutrageoufly.—The mod infupportable of tyrants ex¬ 
claim againft the exercife of arbitrary power. L'EJlrange. — 
To declare with loud vociferation: 
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Is Cade the fon of Henry the Fifth, 
That thus you do exclaim you’ll go with him ? Shakefpeare. 
EXCLA'IM, f. Clamour; outcry. Nowdfufd: 
Alas, the part I had in Glo’fter’s blood 
Doth more folicit me than your exclaims , 
To ftir againft the butchers of his life. Shakefpeare. 
EXCLA'I MER,/. One that makes vehement outcries ; 
one that fpeaks with great heat and paflion.—I muft tell 
this exclaimer , that his manner of proceeding is very ftrange 
and unaccountable. Atterbury. 
EXCLAMA'TION, f. [ 'exclamatio , Lat.] Vehement 
outcry ; clamour ; outrageous vociferation : 
Either be patient, or intreat me fair, 
Or with the clamorous report of war, 
Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shakefpeare. 
Anemphatical utterance; a pathetical fentence.—O Mu- 
fidorus ! Mufidorus ! but what ferve exclamations , where 
there are r.o ears to receive the found ? Sidney .—A note 
by which a pathetical fentenc^ is marked thus ! 
EXCLA'MATQRY, adj. Praftifing exclamation ; con¬ 
taining exclamation. 
To EXCLU'DE, v. a. [ excludo, Lat.] To flint up ; to 
hinderfrom entrance oradmiflion.—Bodies do each Angly 
poflefs its proper portion, according to the extent of its fo- 
lid parts, and thereby exclude all other bodies from that 
fpace. Locke. 
Sure I am, unlefs I win in arms, 
To (land excluded from Emilia’s charms. Dryden. 
To debar; to hinder from participation; to prohibit.— 
This is Dutch partnerfliip, to (hare in all our beneficial 
bargains, and exclude us wholly from theirs. Swift .—To 
except in any pofition ; not to comprehend in any grant 
or privilege.—They feparate from all apparent hope of 
life and (alvation, thoufands whom the goodnefs of Al¬ 
mighty God doth not exclude. Hooker .—To difmifs from 
the womb or egg.—Others ground this difruption upon 
their continued or protrafted time of delivery, wherewith 
excluding but one a-day, the latter brood impatient, by a 
forcible proruption, antidates their period of exclufion. 
Brown. ■ 
EXCLU'SION, f. The aft of (hutting out or denying 
admiftion.—In bodies that need detention of fpirits, the ex¬ 
clufion of the air doth good ; but in bodies that need emif- 
fion of fpirits, it doth hurt. Bacon .—Rejection ; not re¬ 
ception in any manner. — If he is for an entire exclufion of 
fear, which is fuppofed to have fome influence in every 
law, he oppofes himfelf to every government. AddiJ'on .— 
The aft of debarring from any privilege or participation ; 
exception.—There was a queflion afked at the table, whe¬ 
ther the French king would agree to have the difpofing 
of the marriage of Bretagne, with an exception and ex¬ 
clufion that he fliould not marry her himfelf ? Bacon .—The 
difmiflion of the young from the egg or womb.—How 
were it pollible the womb (hould contain the child, nay, 
fometimes twins, ’till they come to their due perfeftion 
and maturity for exclufion? Ray .—Ejeftion ; emiftion ; 
thing emitted.—The fait and lixiviated feroiity, with fome 
portion of choler, is divided between the guts and blad¬ 
der ; yet it remains undivided in birds, and hath but a 
Angle defeent by the guts with the exclufions of the belly. 
Brown. 
EXCLU'SIONER, f [a cant word, from exclufion. 
One of thofe members of parliament in the time of Charles 
II. that was for excluding the duke of York from the fuc- 
cefiion to the crown. 
EXCLU'SIVE, adj. Having the power of excluding or 
denying admiftion : 
They obftacle find none, 
Of membrane, joint, or limb, cxclufve bars : 
Ealier than air with air, if fpirits embrace, 
Total they mix. Milton. 
Debarring from participation.—In feripture there is no 
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