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EXTRE'AT, f [ extrait , Fr.] Extraction or defcent: 
Some clarkes doe doubt in their deviceful! art, 
Whether this heavenly thing whereof 1 treat, 
To weeten mercie, be of juftice part, 
Or drawne forth from her by divine extreate. Spenfer. 
EXTRE'ME, adj. \_extremus, Lat.] This word is fome- 
times corrupted by the fuperlative termination, of which 
it is by no means capable, as it lias in itfelf the fuperla¬ 
tive fignification.] Greateft ; of the high eft degree.—The 
Lord '(ha'll fmite thee with a fever, an inflammation, and 
an extreme burning. Deut. xxviii. 22.—Utrnoft : 
Mifeno’s cape and Bauli laft he view’d, 
That on the fea’s extreme'ft borders flood. Addifon. 
Laft ; that beyond which there is nothing : 
Farewel, ungrateful and unkind! I go, 
Condemn’d by thee to thofe fad (hades below : 
I go th’ extremef remedy to prove, 
To drink oblivion, and to drench my love. Dryden. 
Prefling in the utrnoft degree.—Cafes of neceflity being 
iometime but urgent, fometime extreme , the confideration 
of public utility is urged equivalent to the eafier kind of 
neceflity. Hooker. —Rigorous ; drift.—If thou be extreme to 
mark what is amifs, O Lord, who (hall abide it? Pfatms. 
EXTRE'ME, f. Utrnoft point; higheft degree of any 
thing: 
Avoid extremes, and (him the fault of fuel) 
Who ftill are pleas’d too little, or too much. Pope. 
Points at the greateft diftance from each other ^extre¬ 
mity.—The true proteftant religion is fituated in the 
golden mean ; the enemies unto her are the extremes on 
either hand. Bacon. 
EXTRE'ME UNCTION, in the Romifli church, one 
of the facraments; a foletun anointing of a Tick perfon 
With holy oil, when fuppofed at the point of death. 
EXTRE'MELY, adv. In the utrnoft degree.—She 
rnight hear, not far from her, an extremely doleful voice; 
but lb fupprefled with a kind of whifpering note, that (he 
could not conceive the words diftinftly. Sidney. —Very 
much; great; in familiar language.—Whoever fees a 
fcoundrcl iu a gown reeling home at midnight, is apt to 
be extremely comforted in his own vices. Swift. 
EXTRE'MIT Y, /. [cxtremiton, Lat.] The utrnoft 
point ; the higheft degree.—Should any one be cruel and 
uncharitable to that extremity, yet this would not prove 
that propriety gave any authority. Locke. —The utrnoft 
parts; the parts molt remote from the middle.—The ex¬ 
tremity oi pdm oix.cn creates a coldnefs in the extremities-, 
but fuel) a fenfation is very confiftent with an inflamma¬ 
tory diftemper. Arbuthnot. —The points in the utrnoft de¬ 
gree of oppolition, or at the utrnoft diftance from each 
other : 
He’s a man of that ftrange compofition, 
Made up of all the word extremities 
.Of youth and age. Denham. 
Remoteft parts ; parts at the greateft diftance.—They 
Lent fleets out of the Red Sea to The extremities of Ethiopia, 
and imported quantities, of precious goods, Arbuthnot. — 
'Violence of pa (Sen : 
With equal meafure (lie did moderate 
The ftrong extremities of their outrage. Spcnfer. 
The utrnoft violence, rigour, or diftrefs.—He promifed, 
if they (liould be befieged, to relieve them before they 
fhould be reduced to extremity. Clarendon. 
I vvifli for peace, and any terms prefer, 
Before the laft extremities of war. Dryden. 
The moft aggravated (late.—The world is turning mad 
after farce, the extremity of bad poetry ; or rather the 
judo-ment that is fallen upon dramatic writing. Dryden. 
To EX'TRICATE, v. a. [extrico , Lat.] To difem- 
barrafs ; to fet free any one in a (late of perplexity ; to 
di(entangle.—Thefe are reliefs to nature, as they give her 
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an opportunity of extricating herfelf from her oppreflions, 
and recovering the feveral tones and fprings of her. velfels. 
Addifon. 
EXTRICA'TION, f. The aft of difentangling ; dif- 
entanglement.—Crude fait has a tafte not properly acid, 
but fucli as predominates in brine ; and it does not appear, 
but this acid fpirit did as fuch pre-exift in the fait whence 
it was obtained, fo that we may fuppofe it to have been 
made rather by tranfmntation than extrication. Boyle. 
EXTRIN'SIC, adj. [extrinfecus, Lat.] Outward; ex¬ 
ternal.— Extrinfic modes are fuch as arife from fomethiog 
that is not in the fubjeft or fubftance itfelf; but it is a 
manner of being which fome fubftances attain, by rea-fon 
of fomething external or foreign to the fubjedt; as, this 
globe lies within two yards of the wall ; this man is be¬ 
loved or hated. IVatts. 
EXTRIN'SICAL, adj. \_extrinfecus, Lat.] External ; 
outward; not intimately belonging ; not intrinlic. It is 
commonly written fo, but analogy requires extrinjecal. —A 
body cannot move, tinlefs it be moved by fome extrinfical 
agent; abfurd it is to think that a body, by a quality in it, 
can work upon itfelf. Digby. —Neither is the atom by any 
extrirtf cal impulfe diverted from its natural courfe. Ray. 
EXTR IN'SIC ALLY, adv. From without.—If to fup- 
pofe the foul a diltindl fubftance from the body, and ex- 
trinfcallyu&xtmooK, be.an error, almoft all the world hath 
been miftaken. Glanville, 
To EXTRU'CT, v. a. [extruo, extriiHum, Lat.] To 
build ; to raife ; to form into a ftrufture. 
EXTRUC'TOR, f. A builder ; a fabricator; a con¬ 
triver. 
To EXTRU'DE, v. n. [f xtrudo, Lat.] To thfuft off ; 
to drive oft"; to puth out with violence.—If in any part 
of the continent they found the (hells, they concluded 
that the fea had been extruded and driven off' by the mud. 
Woodward . 
EXTRU'SION, f. 0 extrufus, Lat.] The aft of thriv¬ 
ing or driving out.—They fuppofe. the channel of the fea 
formed, and mountains and caverns, by a violent depref- 
fion offome parts of the earth, and an extrufon and eleva¬ 
tion of others. Burnet.. 
EXTU'BERANCE, f. fev and tuber, I.at.] Knobs, 
or parts protuberant; parts that rife from the reft of the 
body.—The gouge takes oft' the irregularities or extube- 
ranccs that lie farcheft from the axis of the work. Moxon. 
EXU'BERANCE, f. • [exubeiratio, Lat.] Overgrowth; 
fu peril nous (hoots; ufelefs abundance; luxuriance.— 
Though he expatiated on the fame thoughts in different 
words, yet in his fimilies that exuberance is avoided. Garth. 
EXU'BERANT, adj. [ exuberans , Lat.] Growing with 
fuperfluous (hoots; overabundant; fuperfluoufly plen¬ 
teous; luxuriant.—-His fimilies have been thought too 
exuberant, and full of circum(lances. Pope. 
Another Flora there of bolder lutes, 
Plays o’er the fields, and (ltowr’s with fudden hand 
Exuberant fpring. Thomfon. 
Abounding in the utrnoft degree.—A part of that exube¬ 
rant devotion, with which the whole aflembly railed and 
animated one another, catches a reader at the greateft dif¬ 
tance of time. Addifon. 
EXU'BFIRANTLY, adv. Abundantly; to a fuper- 
fiuous degree.—A conftderable quantity of the vegetable 
matter lay at the furface of the antediluvian earth, and 
rendered it exuberantly fruitful. Woodward. 
To EXU'BERATE, v.n. \_cxubero, Lat.] To abound 
in the higheft degree.—All the lovelinefs imparted to the 
creature is lent it, to give 11s enlarged conceptions of that 
vaft confluence and inmienlity that exuberates in-God. Boyle. 
EXUC'COUS, adj. \_exfuccus, Lat.] Without juice ; 
dry.;—This is to be. effected not only in the plant yet 
growing, but in that which is brought cxuccous and dry 
unto us. Brown. 
EXUDA'TION, /. \_exudo, Lat.] The aft of emitting 
in (weat; the aft of emitting moifture through the pores. 
—The tumour fometimes arifes by a general exudation out 
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