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Lis virtues rife to the higheft'pitch of perfection, there 
will he Hill in him fo many fecret (ins, fo many human 
frailties, fo many offences of ignorance, pafiion, and pre¬ 
judice, fo many unguarded words and thoughts, that with¬ 
out the advantage of fiich an expiation and'atonement, as 
Chriftianity has revealed to us, it is ifnpolTible he tliould 
be faved. Addifon. —Practices by which the threats of omi¬ 
nous prodigies were averted.—Upon the birth of fufch 
monflers, the Grecians and Romans did ufe divers forts 
of expiations, and to go about their principal cities with 
many folemn ceremonies and facrifices. Hayward. 
EXPIA'TORY, adj. Having the power of expiation 
Or atonement.—His voluntary death for others prevailed 
with God, and had the force of an expiatory fadrifice. Hooker , 
EXPILA'TION, f \_cxpilatio, Lat.] Robbery; the aft 
of committing wade upon land to the lofs of the heir. 
EXPIRATION,/ That aft of refpiration which throws 
the air out ot ; the lungs, and contracts the cavity of the 
bread:. Quincy. —Of an inflammation of the diaphragm, the 
fymptoms are a violent fever, and a moft exquifite pain 
increafes upon infpiration; by which it is diftinguifned 
from a pleurify, in which the greateft pain is in expiration. 
Arbutknot. —The lad emiflion of breath ; death.—We have 
heard him breathe the groan of expiration. Rambler .—Eva¬ 
poration ; aft ot fuming out. Vapour; matter expired.— 
Words of this fort refemble the wind in fury and itnpe- 
tuoufnefs, in trahfientnefs and hidden expiration. Decay of 
Piety. —The ceffation of any thing to which life is figura¬ 
tively aferibed.—To fatisfy ourfelves of its expiration we 
darkened the room, and in vain endeavoured to difeovet 
any fpark of fire. Boyle .—The conclufion of any limited 
time.—This he did in a fortnight after the expiration of the 
treaty of Uxbridge. Clarendon. '■ 
To EXPI'RE, v. a. \_expiro, Lat.] To breathe out: 
This chaff’d the boar; his noftrils flames expire, 
And his red eye-balls roll with living fire. Dryden. 
To exhale ; to fend out in exhalations.—The fluid which 
is thus fecreted, and expired forth along with the air, goes 
off in infenfible parcels. Woodward. —To clofej to con¬ 
clude; to bring to an end. Obfolele: 
When as time flying with wings fwift, 
Expired had the term that thefe two javels 
Should render up a reck’ning of their travels. Hubbard'sTole. 
To EXPI'RE, v. u. To make an emiflion of the breath. 
—If the infpiringand expiring organ of any-animal beflopt, 
it fuddenly dies. Walton. —To die; to breathe the lalt; 
For when the fair in all their pride expire , 
To their firft elements the fouls retire. Pope. 
To perifli ; to fall; to be deftroyed : 
The dead man’s knell, 
Is there fcarce afk’d, for whom; and good men’s lives 
Expire before the flowers in their caps, 
Dying or ere they ficken. Shakefpcare. 
To fly out with a blaft ; 
The diftance judg’d for fliot of every fize. 
The linftocks touch, the ponderous ball expires ^ 
The vigorous feaman every port-hole plies, 
And adds his heart to every gun he fires. Dryden. 
To conclude ; to terminate ; to come to an end : 
A month before * • 
This bond expires, I do expeft return 
Of thrice three times the value of this bond. Shakefpeare . 
To EXPIS'CATE, v. a. [cat, out of, and pifeis, Lat. a 
fifli.] To fifh om ; to difeover by artful means. Bailey. 
To EXPLA'IN, v. a. [ explano, Lat.] To expound ; to 
ill ultra te ; to clear by notes or commentaries.—Such is the 
original defign, however we may explain it away. Ay life. 
EXPLAINABLE, adj. Capable of being explained or 
interpreted.—It is fymbolically explainable , and jjnplieth 
purification and cleannefs. Brown. 
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EXPLAINER, / Expofitor; interpreter; commen¬ 
tator. 
EXPLANATION, f. The a6t of explaining Or inter¬ 
preting. The fenfe given by an explainer or interpreter. 
—Before this explanation be condemned, and the bill found 
upon it, forne lawyers fliould fully inform the jury. Swift. 
EXPLAN'ATORY, adj. Containing explanation.— 
Had the printer given me notice, I would have printed 
the names, and writ explanatory notes. Swift. 
EXPLE'TA, or Exfletia, or Explicia, /. in old 
records, the rents and profits of an eftate. 
EX'PLETIVE, f. \_expletivum, Lat.] Something ufed 
only to take up room ; fomething of which the ufe is only 
to prevent a vacancy.— Expletives, whether words or fyl- 
lables, are made ufe of purely to fupply a vacancy: do, 
before verbs plural, is abfolutely fiich; and future refi¬ 
ners may explode did and does. Pope. 
EX'PLICABLE, adj. Explainable; poflible to be ex¬ 
plained.—Many difficulties, fcarce explicable with any cer¬ 
tainty, occur in the fabric of human nature. Hale. 
To EX'PLICATE, v..a. \_explico, Lat.] To unfold ; 
to expand : 
They explicate the leaves, and ripen food 
For the filk labourers of the mulberry wood. Blackmcre. 
To explain; to clear; to interpret.—Although the truths 
may be elicited and explicated by the contemplation of ani¬ 
mals, yet they are more dearly evidenced in the contem¬ 
plation of man. Hale. 
EXPLICATION,/ The ad of opening ; unfolding 
or expanding. The ad of explaining; interpretation; 
explanation.—Many things are needful for explication, and 
many for application unto particular occafions. Hooker.— 
The fenfe given by an explainer; interpretation.—’Tis 
the fubflance of this theory I mainly depend upon : many 
fingle explications and particularities may be rectified upon 
farther thoughts. Burnet. 
EX'PLICATIVE, , adj. Having a tendency to explain. 
—If the term which is added to the fubjed of a complex 
propofition be either efiential or any way necelfary to it, 
then it is called explicative ; for it only explains the fub¬ 
jed ; as every mortal man is a fon of Adam. Watts’s Logic. 
EXPLICA'TOR, f. Expounder; interpreter; ex¬ 
plainer. " ' 
EXPLI'CIT, adj. [ explicitus, Lat.] Unfolded ; plain ; 
clear; not oblcure ; not merely implied.-—Thefe fpecu- 
lations, when moft refined, ferveonly to flietv how impof- 
lible it is for us to haye a clear and explicit notion of that 
which is infinite. South. 
EXPLI'CITLY, ddtpr Plainly; diredTly ; not merely 
by inference or implication.—This querulous humour 
carries'an implicit repugnance to God's difpofals-; but 
where it is indulged, it ufually is its own expofitor, and 
■explicitly avows it. Government of the Tongue. 
To EXPLO'DE, v. a. [explodo. Lat.] To drive out dif- 
gracefully with fdme noife of contempt ; to treat with 
open contempt; to treat not only with negled, but open 
difdain or fcorn.—Old age explodes all but morality. RoJ- 
comrhon .—There is pretended^ that a magnetical globe or 
terella, being placed upon its poles, would have a con- 
ftant rotation; but this is commonly exploded, as being 
againft all experience. Wilkins.—To drive out with node 
and violence: 
But late the kindled powder did explode " 
The mafly ball, and the brafs tube unload. Blackmore. 
EXPLO'DER,/ An Infer; one who drives out any 
perfon or thing with open contempt. 
EXPLO'IT, f. [exfjfotum, Lat. res exp'A a. ] A defign 
accomplilhed ; an achievement; a fuccefsful attempt; 
How fiiall I relate 
To human fenfe th* invifible exploits 
Of warring fpirits. Milton. 
To EXPLO'IT, v, a. To perform; toatchieve. Notufed. 
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