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have a fcire facias againft the perfon on whom the execu¬ 
tion was firft filed, his heirs, executors, or afiigns, oflands 
then liable, returnable in the fame court, forty days after 
the tefle ; and if the defendant makes default, or (hews 
not caufe, the chancellor or juftices of the court where the 
fare facias is returned (hall make a new writ of the like 
nature of the former execution for levying the refidue of 
the debt. Co. Lit. 290. Where z. fieri facias iffues, and is 
delivered to the fheriiF to be executed, the property ot the 
goods is veiled by the delivery, and an extent afterwards 
for the king comes too late. 1 Black. Rep. 1294. Doug. 415. 
To EXTE'NUATE, v.a. [cxtcnuo, Lat.] TolefTen ; to 
make fmall or (lender in bulk.—Elis body behind his head 
becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the 
way to the tail. Greta. —To lelTen ; to diminifh in any 
quality : 
To perfid 
In doing wrong, extenuates not wrong, 
But makes it much more heavy. Shakefpcare. 
To lelTen ; to degrade; to diminifh in honour r 
Righteous are thy decrees on all thy works j 
Who can extenuate thee ? Milton. 
To lelTen in reprefentation ; to palliate ; oppofed to ag¬ 
gravate : 
When you (hall thefe unlucky deeds relate, 
Speak of me, as I am : nothing extenuate , 
Nor fet down aught in malice. Shakcfpeare. 
To make lean. To make rare ; oppofed to denfe. —The 
race of all things here is to extenuate and turn things to be 
more pneumatical and rare, and not to retrogade from 
pneumatical to that which is denfe. Bacon. 
F.XTENU A'TION, f. The aft of reprefenting things 
lefs ill than they are ; contrary to aggravation ; palliation. 
Mitigation ; alleviation of punilhrnent.—When fin is to 
be judged, the kindeft enquiry is what deeds of charity 
we can allege in extenuation of our punifhrr.ent. Atterbury. 
—A lofs ot plumpnefs, or a general decay of themufcu- 
lar flelh of the whole Body. Quincy. —A third fort of ma- 
rafmus is an extenuation of the body, caufed through an 
immoderate heat and drynefs of the parts. Harvey. 
To EXTE'REBRATE, v.a. [exterebratu/n, Lat.] To 
make a hole through ; to pierce. 
EXTEREN'SKEIN, or Egerstein, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Weftphalia, and county of Lippe : 
one mile fouth of Horn. 
EXTER'GENTS,/! [ extergeo , Lat. to cleanfe.] Me¬ 
dicines which cleanfe and purify foulnedes. 
EXTE'RIOR, adj. [exterior, Lat.] Outward; exter¬ 
nal ; not intrinfic.—Seraphic and common lovers behold 
exterior beauties, as children and altronomers conlider 
Galileo’s optic glaffes. Boyle. 
EXTE'RIORLY, adv. Outwardly; externally; not 
intrinfically : 
You have (lander’d nature in my form; 
Which, howfuever rude exteriorly, 
Is yet the cover of a fairer mind, 
Than to be butcher of an innocent child. Shakcfpeare. 
EXTE'RIORS,/! Exterior parts.—O (he did fo courfe 
o’er my exteriors with fuch a greedy intention. Shakcfpeare. 
To EXTERMINATE, v ■ a • [extermino, Lat.] To 
root our ; to tear up ; to drive away ; to abolifh ; to de- 
ftroy.—This difeovery alone is fufficient, if the vices of 
men did not captivate their reafon, to explode and exter¬ 
minate rank atheifm out of the world. Bentley. 
EXTERMINATION, f. Deftruftion; excifion.— 
The queftion is, how far an holy war is to be purfued, 
whether to difplanting and extermination of people? Bacon. 
EXTERMINATOR, f. [exterminator , Lat.] The per¬ 
fon or indrnment by which any thing is deflroyed. 
EXTERMINATORY, adj. Tending to extermina¬ 
tion.—We (hould be mutually ju(titled in this extermina¬ 
tory w ar upon each other. Burke. 
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To EXTER'MTNE, n>. a. [extermino, Lat.] To exter¬ 
minate ; to deftroy. Notufd: 
If you do forrow at my grief in love, 
By giving love, your forrow and my grief 
Were both extermin'd. Shakcfpeare. 
EXTE'RN, adj. [externus, Lat.] External; outward ; 
vilible : 
When my outward action doth demondrate 
The native act and figure of my heart 
In compliment extern, ’tis not long after 
But I will wear my heart upon my lleeve 
For daws to peck at. Shakcfpeare. 
Without itfelf; not inherent; not intrinfic; not depend¬ 
ing on itfelf.—When two bodies are prelfed one againft 
another, the rare body not being fo able to redd divifion 
as the denfe, and being not permitted to retire back, by 
reafon of the extern violence impelling it, the parts of the 
«rare body mud he fevered. Digly. 
EXTER'NAL, adj. [externus, Lat.] Outward ; not 
proceeding from itfelf ; operating or aiding from without; 
oppofite to internal. —We come to be allured that there is 
fuch a being, either by an internal impreffion of the notion 
of a God upon our minds, or elfe by fuch external and vi- 
fible effefts as our reafon tells us mud be attributed to 
fomecaute, and which we cannot attribute to any other 
but fuch as we conceive God to be. Tillotfon. —Having 
the outward appearance ; having to the view or outward, 
perception any particular nature.—Adam was then no lefs 
glorious in his externals: he had a beautiful body as well 
as an immortal foul. South. 
EXTER'NALLY, adv. Outwardly.—The exterior 
minidry, externally and alone, hath in it nothing excel¬ 
lent, as being deditute of the fanftity that God requires, 
and it is common to wicked men and good. Taylor. 
EXTERRA'NEOUS, adj. [ex, out of, and terra, Lat. 
the land.] Foreign/; coming from another country. Scott. 
EXTER'SION, f [ex, from, and tero, Lat. to rub.] 
The aft of wiping off ; the aft of rubbing oft'. Scott. 
EXTER'SORY, adj. Rubbing ; cleanfing. Scott. 
To EXTI'L, v. n. [ex and Jlillo , Lat,] To drop or dif- 
til from. 
EXT ILL A'TION, f The aft of falling in drops.— 
They feemed made by an exfudation or exfoliation of pe¬ 
trifying juices out of the rocky earth. Derham. 
To EXTI'MULATE, v.a. [extimulo, Lat.] To prick ; 
to incite by (Emulation.—Choler is one excretion whereby 
nature excludeth another, which, defeending into the 
bowels, extmulates and excites them unto expulfion. 
Brown. 
EXTIMULA'TION,/! [extimulatio, Lat.] Pungency; 
power of exciting motion or fenfation.—The native fpi- 
rits admit great diverfity ; as, hot, cold, aftive, dull, &c. 
whence proceed mod of the virtues of bodies; but the 
air intermixed is without virtues, and maketh things iri- 
fipid, and without any cxtimulation. Bacon . 
EXTI'NCT, adj. [extinBus, Lat.] Extinguidied ; 
quenched ; put out.—They are extinB, quenched as tow. 
Ifaiah. 
There purple vengeance bath’d in gore retires, 
Her weapons blunted, and extinB her fires. Pope. 
At a dop ; without progreflive fuccedion.—My days are 
extinB. Job. —Abolifhed ; out of force.—A cenfure in- 
flifted a jure continues, though fuch law be extinB, or 
the lawgiver removed from his office. Ayliffe. 
To EXTI'NCT, v. a. To extinguidi.—Give renew’d 
fire to our cxtinBed fpirits. Shakcfpeare. —Time will extinB 
love’s flames. IV. Browne. 
EXTINCTION,/! [extinBio, Lat.] The aft ofquench- 
ing or extinguifhing.—Red-hot needles, or wires, extin¬ 
guidied in quick-diver, do yet acquire a verticity accord¬ 
ing to the laws of pofition and extinBion. Brown. —The 
date of being quenched.—The parts are confumed through 
extinBion of their native heat, and diffipation of their raid- 
