exhaustiveness (egzastivnes)

The quality or state-of being exhaustive. A distinguishing characteristic of all these papers is the exhaustivene with which the subjects deemed worthy of consideration are analyzed and discu ed. Amer . Jour . Sci ., 3d ser., XXIX. 160. Tournaments and justs were usually exhibited at corowhere pomp and pageantry were thought to be requisite. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 12. The first thing men think of, when they love, is to ex hibit their usefulne and advantages to the object of their affection. Emerson, Woman. 2. To display; manifest conspicuously; bring to light; furnish or constitute: as, to exhibit an example of bravery or generosity. One of an unfortunate constitution is perpetually exhib iting a miserable example of the weakne of mind and body. Pope. money or other things; stipend; pension. Thou art a younger brother, and hast nothing but thy bare exhibition . B. Jonson, Poetaster, i. 1. Page, will you follow me? I'll give you good exhibition . B. Jonson, Case is Altered, v. 2. My son lives here in Naples, and in 's riot Doth far exceed the exhibition I allowed him. Webster, Devil's Law-Case, ii. 1. Hence-6. A benefaction settled for the maintenance of scholars in English universities, exhibition not depending on the foundation: in Scotland called a bursary. There were very well learned scholars in the university, able to teach and preach, who had neither benefice nor exhibition . R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church of Eng., i. =Syn. Exhibition, Exhibit, Exposition, Exposure, Exposé; manifestation. Exhibition is more general than exhibit, the latter expre ing sometimes a section of the former. As contrasted with exposition, exhibition deals more often with visible things and exposition with things mental: as, an exhibition of machinery; an exposition of a text or doctrine of philosophy. Hence in part, perhaps, the disinclination of some to use exposition for a show. This new and French use of exposition, so far as it prevails, is limited to a large or international exhibition, a "world's fair." Ex posure expre es a laying open (as exposure to the sun, or a southern exposure ), especially in some undesirable way, as to danger, unpleasant observation, etc. Exposé is not far from being synonymous with exhibit, being a formal exhi bition of facts in detail for the information of those concerned, and sometimes the revelation in detail of things that it was desirable to keep secret: as, an exposé of certain tricks of the trade. Copley's picture of Lord Chas am's death is an exhibi tion of itself. Beattie . Although every State and Territory in the Union, with the exception of Utah, was represented by a handsome collective exhibit of its natural resources, the enterprise was e entially Southern. The Century, XXXI. 153. His [Burnet's] work on the Thirty-nine Articles is per- haps the most accredited exposition of the doctrines of Anglicanism. Lecky , Eng. in 18th Cent., i. When we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure , let us meet. Shak ., Macbeth, ii. 3. exhibitional (ek-si-bish'on-al), a . [ exhibition + -al.] Pertaining to an exhibition. Madame and her suite had gone to partake of their yearly exhibitional refreshments. New Princeton Rev. , I. 121. exhibitioner (ek-si-bish'on-er), n. In English universities, one who has an exhibition, pension, or allowance granted for his maintenance. On receiving each instalment the exhibitioner shall declare his intention of presenting himself either at the two examinations for B. A., or at the two examinations for B. Sc. Regulations of Univ. of London , 1865.