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from thence have a tafte or glimpfe of Iris future juftice. 
Hakciulll. 
EXEM'PLAR INESS, f. State of ftanding'-as a pattern 
to be copied.—In feripture we find feveral titles given to 
Chrifi, which import his exemplarinefs, as of a prince and a 
captain, a mafter and a guide. TiUotjon. 
EXEM'PLARY, adj. Such as may deferve to be pro- 
poled to imitation, whether perfons or things.—The arch- 
bilhops and bifivops have the government of the church : 
be not you tlte mean to prefer any to thofe places, but 
only for theirlearning, gravity, and worth : their lives and 
dofttine ought to be exemplary. Bacon. —Such as may give 
warning to others.—Had the tumults been reprefled by 
exemplary juftice, I had obtainedall that I defigned. King 
Charles. —Such as may attract notice and imitation.—When 
any duty is fallen under a general difufe and negleft, in 
fuch a cafe the molt viiible and exemplary performance is 
required. Rogers. 
EXEMPLIFICATION, /. A copy ; a tranfeript.— 
A love of vice as fuch, a delighting in fin for its own fake, 
is an imitation, or rather an exemplification, of the malice of 
the devil. Soutk. 
To EXEM'PLIFY, v.a. To illuftrate by example — 
A latire mav be exemplified by pictures, characters, and 
examples. Pope. —To tranfcribe ; to copy : in the juridi¬ 
cal lenfe, to. take an attefted copy. 
To EXE'MPT, v.a. [exemptus , Lat.] To privilege ; 
to grant immunity from : 
Things done well, 
And with a care, exempt themfelves from fear : 
Things done without example, in their iflue 
Are to be fear’d. Shakefpeare. 
EXE'MPT, adj. Free by privilege : 
Re it my wrong you are from me exempt ; 
But wrong not that wrong with a mete contempt. Shakefp. 
Not fubjeft; not liable to.—No man, not even the mod 
powerful among the fons of men, is exempt from the 
chances of human life. Attcrbury. —Clear ; not included : 
Plis dreadful imprecation hear ; 
’Tis laid on all, not any one exempt. Lee's (Edipus. 
C u t off from. DiJ'ufcd .- 
Was not thy father for treafon ’headed ? 
And by his treafon ftand’d not thou attainted, 
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry ? Shakefpeare. 
EXE'MPT, f. A life-guard man free from duty. In 
France, an officer in the guard, who commands in the ab- 
fence of the captain and lieutenant. 
EXEMPTION, f. Immunity; privilege from evil ; 
freedom from impofis.—The Roman laws gave particular 
.exemptions to fuch as built (hips or traded in corn. Arbuthnot. 
EXEM'PTION, in law, a privilege tube free from fervice 
or appearance; as knights, clergymen, See. are exempted 
from appearing at the county-court by ftatute, and peers 
from being put upon inquefls. Perfons feventy years of 
age, apothecaries, See. are alfo exempted by law from 
ferving on juries ; and juftices of peace, attorneys, &c. 
from parifii offices. There is an exemption from tolls, 
&c. by the king’s letters patent : and a writ of exemp¬ 
tion, or of eafe, to be quit of ferving onjuri.es, and all 
public fervice. 
EXEMPTI'TIOUS, adj. [from exemptus, Lat. ] Sepa¬ 
rable; that which may be taken from another.—If the 
motion were loofe or exemptitious from matter, I could be 
convinced that it had extenfion of its own. More. 
To EXEN'TER ATE, v.a. [_exentero, Lat. ] To dif- 
bowel ; to deprive of the entrails.—A toad contains not 
thofe urinary parts which are found in other animals to 
avoid that ferous excretion ; which may appear unto any 
that exenterates or difiefts them. Brown. 
EXENTER AT ION, f [cxenteratio, Lat. ] The aft of 
taking out the bowels ; dilbowelling. — BeJonius not only 
affirms that chamelioivs feed on flies, caterpillars, beetles, 
EXE 
and other infefts, but upon exenteration he found thefe 
animals in their bellies. Brown. 
EXE'QUIAL, adj. [from exequia, Lat.] Funeral ; re¬ 
lating to funerals. 
EXE'QUIES,y. without a Angular; [cxequice, Lat.] 
Funeral rites; the ceremony of burial ; the proceffion of 
burial. For this word obfquies is often ufed, but not fo 
properly ; 
Let’s not forget 
The noble duke of Bedford late deceas’d, 
But fee his exequies fulfill’d. Shakefpeare. 
EXE'RAMA,/ [fsgxv, Gr. to vomit up.] The mat¬ 
ter thrown up by vomit. 
EXER'CENT, adj. [ exercens , Lat.] Praftifing ; fol¬ 
lowing any calling or vocation.—The judge may oblige 
every exercent advocate to give his patronage and afliftar.ee 
Unto a litigant in diftrefs for want of an advocate. Ayhfj'e. 
EX'ERCTSEjy. [ exercitium , Lat.] Labourof the body ; 
labour conlidered as conducive to the cure or prevention 
of difeafes.—Men ought to beware that they ufe not ex- 
ercife and a fpare diet both ; but if much cxercife, a plenti¬ 
ful diet ; it fparing diet, little exercife. Bacon. 
The wife for cure on exercife depend : 
God never made his work for man to mend. Drydcn, 
The pureft exercife of health, 
The kind refreflier of the fummer heats. Thomfon. 
Something done for amufement.—As a watchful king, he 
would not neglect hisfafety, thinking neverthelefs to per¬ 
form all things rather as an exercife than as a labour. Bacon. 
—Habitual aftion by which the body is formed to grace- 
fulnefs, air, and genllenefs.—The French apply them¬ 
felves more univerfally to their exercifes than any nation : 
one feldom fees a young gentleman that does not fence, 
dance, and ride. AddiJ'on. —Ufe; aftual application of any 
thing.—The feeptre of fpiritual regimen over us in this 
prefent world, is at length to be yielded up'into the hands 
of the Father which gave it ; that is, the ufe and exercife 
thereof (hall ceafe, there being no longer on earth any mi¬ 
litant church to govern. Hooker. — Practice ; outward per¬ 
formance.—Lewis refufed even thofe of the church of 
England, who followed their mafter to St. Germain’s, the 
publick cxercife of their religion. Addifon. —Employment 
frequently repeated.— Exercife is very alluring and enter¬ 
taining to the underftanaing, while its reafoning powers 
are employed without labour. Watts. —.Talk; that which 
one is appointed to perform : 
Patience is more oft the exercife 
Of faints, the trial of their fortitude 
Making them each his own deliverer. 
And viftor over all 
That tyranny or fortune can infiift. Milton. 
Aft of divine worffiip, whether public or private : 
Good fir John, 
I’m in your debt for your lafl: cxercife ; 
Come the next fabbath, and I will content you. Skakefp. 
This word is vulgarly applied to the praftical ftudy and 
performance both of the Na val and Military Tactics; 
which fee. 
To EX'ERCISE, v. a. \_exerceo, Lat.] To employ ; to 
engage in employment.—This faculty of the mind, when 
it is exercifcd immediately about things, is called judg¬ 
ment. I.ocke. —To train by ufe to any aft.—The Roman 
tongue was the ftudy of theiryouth : it was their own lan¬ 
guage they were inftriifted and exercifcd in. Locke. — To 
make fkilful or dexterous by praftice ; to habituate.-— 
Strono- meat belongeth to them who, by reafon or ufe, 
have their fenfes exercifcd to difeern both good and evil. 
Ucbr. _To bufy ; to keep bufy.—He will cxercife himfelf 
with pleafure, and without wearinefs, in that god-like em¬ 
ployment of doing good. Attcrbury. —To talk ; to keep 
employed as a penal injunction.—Sore travel hath God gi¬ 
ven to the fons of myn, to be cxcrciJ'edK herewith. Eccl. i. 13. 
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