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fpcare. ] Wliifpered ; buzzed in the ear ; from the Italian 
verb fuffolar : 
Exchange me for a goat, 
When I fhall turn the bufinei's of my foul, 
To fuch cxfuffolate and blown furmifes. Shakefpeare. 
EXSUFFLA'TION, f. \_ex and fufflo, Lat.] A blafl 
working underneath.—Of volatility, the mod degree is 
when it will fly away without returning: the next is 
when it will fly up, but with eafe return : the next is 
when it will fly upwards over the helm, by a kind of ex- 
fufflation, without vapouring. Bacon. 
To EXSUS'CITATE, v. a. [ exfufcito , Lat.] To roufe 
up ; to ftir up. 
EX'TANCY, f. The (late of rifing above the reft.—• 
Parts riling up above the reft ; in oppofition to thofe 
depreffed.—'The order of the little extanfics , and confe- 
quently that of the little deprefftons, will be altered like- 
wife. Boyle. 
EXTANT, adj. [ extans , Lat.] Standing out to view ; 
Landing above the reft.—That part of the teeth which is 
extant above the gums is naked, and not inverted with 
that fenflble membrane called periofteum, wherewith 
the other bones are covered. Ray. —Public ; not fup- 
preffed.—The firft of tire continued weekly bills of mor¬ 
tality, extant at the parifii clerks’ hall, begins the tw enty- 
ninth of December, 1603. Grarnt. 
EXTA'TIC, orExTATiCAL, adj. [exrarnc 05, Gr. fee 
Ecstacy.] Tending to fomething external.—I had in 
me a great deal of extatical love, which continually car¬ 
ries me to good without myfelf. Boyle. —Rapturous ; in 
a (late in which the foul feems to leave the body : 
In trance cxtatic, may thy pangs be drown’d; 
Bright clouds defeend, and angels watcli thee round. Pope. 
EXTE 1 VPPOR.AL, adj. [extemporalis , Lat.] Uttered 
without premeditation ; quick ; ready ; fudden.—A man 
of pleafant and popular converfation, of good extemporal 
judgment and difeourfe. IVotton. —Speaking without pre¬ 
meditation.—Many foolifti things fall from wife men, if 
they (peak in hade, or be extemporal. Ben Jenfon. 
EXTEM'PO RALLY, adv. Quickly; without preme¬ 
ditation : 
The quick comedians 
Extemporally will ftage us, and prefent 
Our Alexandrian revels. Shakefpeare. 
EXTEMPORA'NEOUS, adj. \_cxtemporaneus, Lat.] 
Without premeditation; fudden. 
EXTEM'PORARY, adj. [extemporarius , Lat.] Ut¬ 
tered or performed without premeditation ; fudden ; 
" quick.—This cuftom was begun by our ancestors out of 
an ambition of (hewing their extemporary ability of fpeak- 
Ing upon any fubjedt. More. 
PiXTEM'PORE, adv. [ ex tempore, Lat.] Without pre¬ 
meditation ; fuddenly ; readily ; without any previous 
care or preparation.—You may do it extempore : for it is 
but roaring. Shakefpeare. 
Haft tbou no mark at which to bend thy bow ? 
Or, like a boy, purfu’ft the carrion-crow 
With pellets and with Hones from tree to tree, 
A fruitlefs toil, and liv’d extempore. Drydcn. 
It is fometimes ufed as an adjedtive, but very improperly. 
— [ have known a woman branch out Into a long extempore 
diflertation upon a petticoat. Addifon. 
EXTEM'PORE, J'. A compofition made extempore. 
—I was debarred of the acumen requifite for an extempore. 
Shcnflone. 
EXTEM'PORINESS, f. The faculty of fpeaking or 
adding without premeditation ; the (late of being unpre¬ 
meditated. 
To EXTEM'PORIZE, v. n. To fpeak extempore, or 
without premeditation.—The extemporizing faculty is never 
more out of its element than in the pulpit ; though even 
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here, it is much more excufable in a fermon, than in a 
prayer. - South. 
TbEXTE'ND, v. a. \_extendo, Lat.] To ftretch out 
towards any part: 
See the figure of his lifelefs friend, 
And his old fire, his helplefs hand extend. Drydcn. 
Lo amplify ; oppofed to contraS. —It is fufferable in any 
to u(e what liberty they lift in their own manner of writ¬ 
ing ; but the contradting and extending the lines and fenfe 
of others would appear a thanklefs office. Wotton. —To 
fpread abroad ; to difiufe ; to expand.—He much magni¬ 
fies the capacity ot his underftanding, who perfuades him- 
felf that he can extend his thoughts farther than God 
exifts, or imagine any expanfion where he is not. Locke. 
—To widen to a large comprehenfion.—Few extend their 
thoughts towards univerfal knowledge. Locke. —To ftretch 
into affignable dimenfions ; to make local ; to magnify fo 
as to fill Come affignable place : 
The mind, fay they, while you ftiftain 
To hold her (lation in the brain ; 
You grant, at lead (he is extended. 
Ergo the whole difpute is ended. Prior. 
To enlarge ; to continue: 
To Helen’s bed the gods alone affign 
Hermione t’ extend the regal line. Pope. 
To increafe by force or duration : 
If much you note him, 
You (hall offend him, and extend his paffion. Shakefpeare. 
To enlarge the comprehenfion of any pofition.—Seeing 
it is not let down how far the bounds of his fpeech con¬ 
cerning diflimilitude reach, who can allure us that it ex~ 
tendeth further than to thofe things only wherein the na¬ 
tions were idolatrous ? Hooker. —To impart ; to commu¬ 
nicate.—Let there be none to extend mercy unto him. 
Pfa'lms. —To feize by courfe of law : 
The law that fettles all you do, 
And marries where you did but woo ; 
And if it judge upon your fide, 
Will foon extend her for your bride. Hudibras. 
To EXTE'ND, v. n. To reach any diftance.—My good- 
nefs extendetk not to thee. Pfalms. —The bignefs of fuch 
a church ought to be no greater than that unto which the 
voice of a preacher of middling lungs can eafily extend. 
Graunt. 
-EXTEN'DER, f. The perfon or inftrument by which 
any thing is extended.—The extenfion made, the ex¬ 
tenders are to be loofened gently. Wifeman. 
EXTEN'DIBLE, adj. Capable of extenfion ; capable 
to be made wider or longer.—Tubes, recently made of 
fluids, are eafily lengthened ; fuch as have often fuffered 
force, grow rigid, and hardly extendible. Arbathnot. —That 
may be feized by law. 
EXT ENDLESSNESS, f. Unlimited extenfion. In 
this fenfe it feems ufed with little propriety.—Certain 
molecula fewinales nuift keep the world from an infinitude 
and extendkjfuefs of excurfions every moment into new 
figures and animals.- Hale. 
EXTENSIBILITY, f. The quality of being exteri- 
fible.—In what manner they are mixed, (o as to give a 
fibre exterfibility, who can fay ? Grew. 
EXTENSIBLE, adj. [extenfio, Lat.] Capable of be¬ 
ing ftretched into length or breadth.—The malleus being 
fixed to an extenfible membrane, follows the tradtion of the 
muffle, and is drawn inward. Holder .—Capable of being 
extended to a larger comprehenfion.—Tlrat love is blind 
is extenfible beyond the objedt of poetry. Glanville. 
EXTEN'SIBLENESS,/! Capacity of being extended. 
EXTENSION,/, iextenfio, Lat.] The aCT of ex¬ 
tending The (late of being extended.—The hiccough 
cometh of fulnefs of meat, especially in children, which 
caufeth an extenfion ot the flomach. Bacon,— In phyiics, it 
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