exIntine

[Lat. ex out of; int us =within, and Eng. suff. -ine.] Bot .: The name given by Fritzche to a membrane situated between the two others, called extine and intine, in the shell of the pollen grain. The exintine is said to be found in the pollen of Taxus, Juniper us, Cupre us, Thuja, Cucurbit a Pepo, . *ex-in-tri-cāte, v . t . [Lat. ex out, and intrico =to entangle.] [INTRICATE.] To disentangle, to extricate. *ex-in-tri-ca-tion (1), s . [EXINTRICATE.] The act or proce of disentangling or extricating; extrication. *ex-in-tri-ca-tion (2), s . [Low Lat. exentrica tio , excentricatio.] The act of disemboweling a dead body. "They could not pretend the skill or power of exintri . cation, or any incision upon the body." - Fountain hall : Suppl. Dec., p. 282. ěx-ist', v . i . [Lat. existo , exsisto =to come forth, to arise, to be: ex out, and sis to =to set, to place; sto to stand; Fr. exister ; Sp. & Port. existir ; Ital esistere .] 1. To be; to have an actual being or existence, whether material or spiritual. "Whatever exists has a cause, a reason, a ground of its existence."-Clarke: On the Attributes , prop. 1. exitial by the Divine Being to some parts only of His creation: exist , therefore, is the general, and live the specific, term: whatever lives , exists according to a certain mode; but many things exist without living: when we wish to speak of things in their most abstract relation, we say they exist ; when we wish to characterize the form of existence , we say they live." ( Crabb : Eng . Synon . ) (2) For the difference between to exist and to be , see BE.