EXP 
The form; the likenefs reprefented.-—I will drop feme 
obfeure epiftles of love, wherein, by the colour of his 
beard, the manner of his gait, the expreffure of his eye, 
forehead, and complexion, he (hall find himfelf perfo- 
nated. ShakeJ'pearc. —The mark; the impreffion : 
And nightly, meadow fairies, look you fing, 
Like to the garter-compafs in a ring : 
Th’ expreffure that it bears, green let it be, 
More fertile frefii than all the field to fee. Shakefpeare. 
To EX'PROBR ATE, v. a. \_exprobro , Lat.] To charge 
upon with reproach ; to impute only with blame ; to 
upbraid.—To exprobrats their dupidity he induces the 
providence of ftorks : now if the bird had been unknown, 
the illuflration had been obfeure, and the exprobration 
not fo proper. Brown. 
EXPROBRATION, f. Scornful charge ; reproachful 
accufation; a< 5 t of upbraiding.—The Parthians, with ex¬ 
probration of Craflus’s third after money, poured gold into 
his mouth after he was dead. Abbot. 
No need fuch boads, or exprobrations falfe 
Of cowardice : the military mound 
The Britidi files tranfeend in evil hour 
For their proud foes. Philips. 
EXPRO'BRATIVE, adj. Upbraiding.—All benefits 
lofing much of their fplendour, both in the giver and re¬ 
ceiver, that do beare with them an exprobrative terme of 
neceffitie. Sir A. S her ley's Travels. 
EXPROMIS'SAR, f. In the Roman law, a furety, a 
bail. 
To EXPROPRIATE, v. a. lex and proprius , Lat.] 
To make no longer our own ; to hold no longer as a pro¬ 
perty. Not in ufe. —When you have refigned, or rather 
configned, your expropriated will to God, and thereby en- 
truded him to will for you, all his difpenfations towards 
you are, in effedt, the adts of your own will. Boyle. 
To EXPU'GN, v. a. [expugno, Lat.] To conquer ; to 
take by affault. 
EXPUGNATION,/. Conqued ; the a6t of takingby 
affault.—The expugnaticn of Vienna he could never ac- 
complidi. Sandys. 
To EXPUL'SE, v. a. \_expalfns, Lat.] To drive out; to 
expel; to force away.—-Inwardly received,.it may be 
very diuretic, and expuje the done in the kidnies. Brown. 
EXPUL'SION, /. The aid of expelling or driving out. 
—This magnificent temple was not finithed til! after the 
cxputfion of Tarquin. Stillingfleet. 
Sole vidtor from th’ expulfion of his foes, 
Mefiiah his triumphal chariot turn’d. Milton. 
The date of being driven out.—To what end had the an¬ 
gel been fent to keep the entrance into Paradile, after 
Adam’s expulfion., if the univerfe had been Paradifc ? 
Raleigh. 
EXPUL'SIVE, adj. Having the power of expulfion.— 
If the member be dependent, by railing of it up, and plac¬ 
ing it equal with or higher than the red of the body, the 
influx may be redrained, and the pare drengthened by 
expulfive bandages. Wifeman. 
EXPUNCTION,/. Abolition; the ad of expunging, 
blotting, or effacing. 
To EXPUN'GE, v. a. [ex/ungo, Lat.] To blot out ; to 
rub out.—Neither do they remember the many alterations, 
additions, and expungings , made by great authors in thofe 
treatifes which they prepare for the public. Swift-. —To 
efface ; to annihilate-; \ 
Wilt thou not to a broken heart difpenfe 
Ti e balm of mercy, and expunge th’ offence ? Sandys. 
EXPURGATION, f. [expurgatio , Lat.] The ad of 
purging or cleanfing.—All the intedines, but efpecially 
the great ones, kidneys, and ureters, ferve for expurgation. 
Wifeman. —Purification from bad mixture, as of error or 
falfehood.—Wife men know, that arts and learning want 
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expurgation ; and if the courfe of truth be permitted to it- 
feif, it cannot efcape many errors. Broum. 
EXPUR'GATOR,y, One who correds b.y expunging. 
—They may well be allowed an expurgator. Lord Digby. 
EXPUR'GATORY, adj. \_expurgatorius, I.at.] Em¬ 
ployed in purging away what is noxious: as, the expur- 
gatory index of the Romanids direds the abolition or ex T 
pundion of paffages admitted by any authors contrary to 
popery.—There wants expurgatory animadverfions, where¬ 
by we might Alike out great numbers of hidden qualities ; 
and having once a conceded lid, we might with more 
fafety attempt their reafons. Brown. 
EX'QUISITE, adj. [ exquijitus , Lat.] Farfought ; ex¬ 
cellent ; confummate ; complete.—His abfolute exadtnefs 
they imitate by tending unto that which is mod exqui/ite 
in every particular. Hooker. —Confummately bad.—With 
exqui/ite malice they have mixed the gall and vinegar of 
falfity and contempt. King Charles. —Very fenfibly felt.— 
The feales of the fcarf-lkin hinder objeds from making 
too painful and exquifite impreffion on the nerves. Cheyne. 
EXQUI'SITELY, adj. Perfedly; completely: in 
either a good or ill fenfe.—We fee more cxqiifiely with 
one eye diut than with both open; for that the fpirits 
vifual unite themfelves, and become dronger. Bacon .—• 
The poetry of operas is generally as exquifitely ill as the 
mufic is good. Addifon. 
EX'QJJISITENESS,/ Nicety ; perfection.—We fup- 
pofe the fuperficies of the two glades fiiould be fo exadly 
fiat and fmooth, that no air at all can come between them; 
and experience has informed us, that it is extremely dif¬ 
ficult to procure from our ordinary tradefmen either 
glades or marbles fo much as approaching fuch an exqui- 
fitenefs. Boyle. 
To EXSCRI'BE, v. a. \_exfcribo, Lat.] To write out: 
I that have been a lover, and could fliew it, 
Though not in thefe, in rhimes not wholly dumb, 
Since I exferibe your fonnets, am become 
A better lover, and much better poe.t. B. Jonfon. 
EX'SCRIPT,/ [exferiptum, Lat.] A copy ; a writing 
copied from another. 
EXSIC'CANT, adj. Drying ; having the power to 
dry up. 
EX'SICCANTS, f Medicines calculated to dry up 
or expel malignant humours in the body.—Some are 
moderately moid, and require to be treated with medicines 
of the like nature, fuch as flediy parts ; others dry in 
themfelves, yet require exficcants, as bones. Wifeman. 
To EXSIC'CATE, v. a. \_cxfcco, Lat.] To dry.—Great 
heats and droughts exficcate and wade the moidure and 
vegetative nature of the earth. Mortimer. 
EXSICCATION,/! The aft of drying.—That which 
is concreted by cxficcation, orexprellion of humidity, will 
be refolved by humedtation; as earth, dirt, and clay. 
Brown. 
EXSIC'CATIVE, adj. Having the powder of drying. 
EXSIC'CATI VES, J'. Medicines of a drying quality. 
EXSPUI'TION, J. \exf.uo, Lat.] A difeharge of fa- 
liva by fpitting. 
EXSUC'CATION, f. [ear, out of, and fuccus, Lat. hu¬ 
mour.] An ecchymofis, or extravafation of humours un¬ 
der the integuments. 
EXSUC'COUS, adj. Dry, having no moidure. 
EXSUCTION, J. [ exugo, Lat.] The act of fucking 
out, or draining out, without immediate contact of the 
power of fucking with the tiling lucked.—If you open 
the valve, and force up the fucker, after this fird exfudion , 
you will drive out almod a whole cylinder full of air. 
Boyle. 
EXSUDA'TION, /. \_cxudo, Lat.] A fweating out ; 
an extillation ; an emifiion.—They feemed to be made by 
an exfudation or extillation of fome petrifying juices out 
of the rocky earth. Derham. 
EXSUF'FOLATE, adj. [A word peculiar to Shake. 
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