excessive, excess if

[Fr. exce if, from Lat. exce us; Sp. excesivo; Ital. ecce ivo.] 1. Exceeding the usual or proper limits or bounds; immoderate, extravagant, unreasonable; too great; beyond measure. "He had, in the Convention, carried his zeal for her interests to a length which she had herself blamed as exoe ive."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xv. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, exce ively *2. Acting unreasonably or without proper restraint. Crabb thus discriminates between exce ive , immoderate, and intemperate : "Exce ive designates exce in general; immoderate and in temper ate designate exce in moral agents. The exce ive lies simply in the thing which exceeds any given point: the immoderate lies in the pa ions which range to a boundle extent: the intemperate lies in the will which is under no control. Hence wo speak of an exce ive thirst physically considered: an immoderate ambition or lust of power; an intem perate indulgence, an intemperate warmth. Exce ive admits of degrees; what is exce ive may exceed in a greater or le degree: immoderate and intemperate mark a positively great degree of exce ; the former still higher than the latter: im moderate is in fact the highest conceivable degree of exce . Exce ive designates what is partial; immoderate is used oftener for what is partial than what is habitual; intemperate is used oftener for what is habitual than what is partial. A person is exce ively displeased on particular occasions: an immoderate eater at all times, or only immoderate in that which he likes: he is intemperate in his language when his anger is intemperate ; or he leads an intemperate life. The exce es of youth do but too often settle into confirmed habits of intemperance." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) ěx-çěs-sive-ly, adv. [Eng. exce ive; -ly.] 1. In or to an exce ive degree; exceedingly; extremely; beyond measure. "Such mo es have seeds so exce ively small." -Ray: On the Creation, pt. ii. *2. Vehemently, greedily. (Spenser.) ěx-çěs-sive-ne , *ex-ces-sive-ne e, s. [Eng. exce ive; -ne .) The state or quality of being oxce ive; exce . "Other some so fryse through the exce iuene e of the cold."- Golding : Justine, p. 8.