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End; diffolution: 
Thefe eyes, like lamps wliofe wafting oil is (pent, 
Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent. S/iakeJpeare. 
EX'IGENT, in law, a writ that lies where the defen’ 
dant in an aftion perfonal cannot be found, por any thing 
of his within the county, whereby to be attached or dif- 
trained ; and is directed to the fheriff, to proclaim and call 
him five county-court days, one after another, charging 
him to appear upon pain of outlawry: it is called exigent, 
becaufe it exafteth the party, i. e. requires his appearance 
or forth-coming to anfwer the law ; and if he come not at 
the laft day’s proclamation, he is faid to be quinquies exaElus , 
(five times exafted,) and is outlawed. Cromp. JuriJ'. 188. 
The ftatutes requiring proclamations on exigents awarded 
in civil aftions, are 6 Henry VIII. c. 4. 31 Eliz. c. 3. 
Exigents are to be awarded againft receivers of the king’s 
money,, who detain the fame; and againft confpirators, 
rioters, See. 18 Edw. III. c. 1. And a writ of proclama¬ 
tion fhall be iffued to the fheriff to make three proclama¬ 
tions in the county where the defendant dwells, for him 
to yield himfelf, See. 31 Eliz. c. 3. The writ of exigent 
alfo lies in an indiftment of felony, where the party in- 
difted cannot be found. If a perfon indifted of felony 
abfent himfelf fo long that the writ of exigent is awarded, 
his withdrawing will be deemed a flight in law, whereby 
he will be liable to forfeit his goods ; and though he 
renders himfelf upon the exigent, after fuch withdrawing, 
and is found not guilty, it is faid the forfeiture fhall 
Hand. 3 Injl. 232. See the article Outlawry. 
EXIGEN'TER, /. an officer of the court of common 
pleas; of which officers there are four in number : they 
make all exigents and proclamations, in aftions where 
procefs of outlawry doth lie ; and alfo writs of fuperfedeas , 
as well as the prothonotaries, upon fuch exigents made out 
in their offices. But the iffuing writs of fuperfedeas is taken 
from them by an officer in the fame court, conftituted by 
letters patent by James I. 
EXIGU'ITY, y, [exiguitas, Lat.] Smallnefs; dimi- 
nutivenefs ; flendernefs.—The exiguity and fhape of the 
extant particles is now fuppofed. Boyle, 
EXI'GUOUS, adj. [exiguus, Lat. ] Small; diminutive; 
little. Not ufed. —Their fubtle parts and exiguous dofe 
are confumed and evaporated in lefs than two hours time. 
Harvey. 
EX'ILE, f. [ exilium , Lat.] It feems anciently to have 
had the accent indifferently on either fylluble ; now it is 
uniformly on the firft. Baniffiment ; ftate of being ba- 
liifhed from one’s country. The perfon baniffied : 
Ulyffes, foie of all the viftor train, 
An exile from his dear paternal coaft, 
Deplor’d his abfent queen, and empire loft. Pope. 
One great bleffing of perfonal liberty, under the laws 
of England, is, that every Englifhman may claim a right 
to abide in his own country fo long as he pleafes, and not 
to be driven from it, unlefs by fentenceof the law. Exile 
and tranfportation are both punifhments unknown to the 
common law ; and wherever the latter is infiifted, it is 
either by the choice of the criminal himfelf to efcape a 
capital punifhment, or by the exprefs direction of fome 
ftatute. See Magna Charta, c. 29 ; which exprefsly de¬ 
clares that no freeman fhall be baniffied, unlefs by the 
judgment of his peers, or by the laws of the land. For 
the provifions of the Habeas Corpus aft, 31 Car. II. c. 2, 
termed by Blackftone a fecond magna cliarla and ftable 
bulwark of our liberties, fee the article Habeas Corpus. 
EX'ILE, adj. [exilis, Lat.] Small; [lender ; not full; 
not powerful : ufed in philofophical writings.—It were 
good to enquire what means may be to draw forth the 
exile heat which is in the air ; for that may be afecret of 
great power to produce cold weather. Bacon. 
To EX'ILE, v. a. [This had formerly the accent on the 
laft fyllable, now generally on the firft, though Dryden 
has ufed both.] To banilh ; to drive from a country; to 
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tranfport.— They, fettered with the bonds of a long night, 
lay there exiled from the eternal Providence. Wijd. xvii, 2. 
His brutal manners from his breaft exil'd, 
His mien he fafhion’d, and his tongue he fil’d. Dryden. 
EXI'LEMENT, f. Baniffiment.•—Fitzolborn was dif- 
carded into foreign fervice for a pretty ffiadow of exile . 
merit. Wotton. 
EX'ILES, a town of Italy, ftrongly fortified, in the 
principality of Piedmont, on the river Doria : five miles 
weft-fouth-weft of Sufa. By the treaty of peace between 
the French republic and the king of Sardinia, in 1796, 
the fortifications of Exiles were to be razed, as it guarded 
the principal pafs into Piedmont. 
EXILI'TION, f. [ exilitio , Lat.] The aft of fpringing 
or ruffling out fuddenly.—From faltpetre proceedeth the 
force and report of gunpowder : for fulphur and fmall- 
coal mixt, will not take fire with noife or exilition ; and 
powder, which is made of impure and greafy petre, hath 
but a weak emiffion, and gives but a faint report. Bacon. 
EXI'LITY, f. [ exilis , Lat.] Slendernefs ; fmallnefs ; 
diminution.—Certain flies, called ephemera, live but a 
day : the caufe is the exility of the fpirit, or perhaps the 
abfence of the fun. Bacon. —A body, by being fubtilized, 
can Iofe nothing of its corporeity ; neither can it hereby 
gain any thing but exility ; for all degrees of lubtility are 
effentially the fame thing. Grew. 
EXI'LIUM, f. in law, denotes a fpoiling : and by the 
ftatute of Marlbridge it feems to extend to the injury 
done to tenants, by altering their tenure, ejefting them, 
&c. which is the fenfe that Fleta determines, who tells 
us that vafum and deJlruElio are properly applied to houfes, 
gardens, or woods ; but exilium is when fervants are in- 
franchifed, and wards unlawfully turned out of their tene¬ 
ments. See Marlb. c. 25. 
EXI'MIOUS, adj. [eximius, Lat.] Famous; eminent; 
confpicuous ; excellent. 
EXINANI'TION,/. [exinanitio, Lat.] Privation; lofs. 
—He is not more impotent in his glory than he was in his 
exinanition. Decay of Piety. 
To EXI'ST, v. n. [exjjlo, Lat.] To be; to have a being. 
—It is as eafy to conceive that an Almighty Power might 
produce a thing out of nothing, and make that to exijl de 
novo, which did not exijl before ; as to conceive the world 
to have had no beginning, but to have ex-fled from eter¬ 
nity. South. 
EXIS'TENCE,orExtSTENCY,y. [ exflentia , low Lat.] 
State of being ; aftual poffeflion of being.—When a being 
is confidered as poffible, it is faid to have an effence or 
nature : fuch were all things before the creation. When 
it is confidered as aftual, then it is faid to have exigence 
alfo. Watts. 
The foul, fecur’d in her exifience, fmiles 
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. Addifon. 
EXIS'TENT, adj. Having being ; in poffeffion of 
being or.of exiftence.—The eyes and minds are fattened 
on objefts which have no real being, as if they were truly 
ext'/lent. Dryden. 
EXISTIM A'TION, f. [exjlimatio , Lat.] Opinion; 
efteem. 
EX'IT, f. [exit, Lat.] The term fet in the margin of 
plays to mark the time at which the player goes off the 
ftage. Recefs ; departure; aft of quitting the ftage ; 
aft of quitting the theatre of life.—A regard for fame be¬ 
comes a man more towards the exit than at his entrance 
into life. Swift. 
All the world’s a ftage, 
And all the men and women merely players: 
They have their exits and their entrances, 
And one man in his time plays many parts. Shakefpeare . 
Paffage out of any place.—In fuch a pervious fubftanceas 
the brain, they might find an eafy either entrance or exit t 
almoft every where. Glanvillc. —Way by which there is a 
paffage out.—The fire makes its way, forcing the water 
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