exigendt (eksijend)

[ against whom the writ of exigent was i ued; If he [the sheriff) return, that he [a laborer who fled from his employer] is not found, he shall have an Exigend at the first Day, and the same pursue till he be outlawed. Laws of Edw . III. (modern version), quoted in Ribton[Turner's Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 50. exigendary (ek-si-jen'dā-ri), n.; pl. exigendaries (-riz). [ exigend + -ary .] Same as exigenter . exigent (ek'si-jent), a. and n. [= F. exigeant (see exigeant ) = Sp. Pg. exigente = It. esigente, At this exigent moment, the lo of a finished man is not easily supplied. Burke . But now this body, exigent of rest, Will needs put in a claim. Sir H. Taylor , Ph. van Artevelde, II., 1. 2. II. n. 11. An urgent occasion; an occasion that calls for immediate aid or action; an exigency. Instead of doing anything as the exigent required, he began to make circles and all those fantastic all defences that hee had ever heard were fortifications against devils. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iv. Why do you cro me in this exigent ? Shak ., J. C., v. 1. From this needle e surmisall I shall hope to di wade the intelligent and equal auditor, if I can but say succe fully that which in this exigent behoovs me. Milton , Church-Government, Pref., ii. 2t. End; extremity. By this time we were driuen to an exigent , all our prouision within the Citie stooping very lowe. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 126. These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent . Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 5. 3. In Eng. law, formerly, a writ preliminary to outlawry, which lay where the defendant could not be found, or after a return of non est inven tus on former writs. exigenter (ek'si-jen-tér), n. [ IMG:content-0892.png:[blocks in formation] The cursitors are by counties; these are the Lord Chancellor's. The philizers and exigent ers are by counties also, and are of the Common Pleas. Roger North , Lord Guilford, I. 186. exigible (ek'si-ji-bl), a. [F. exigible = Sp. exi gible = Pg.exigivel = It. esigibile, Discount is a deduction allowed for a payment being made at a date prior to the time when the full amount is exigible. Encyc. Brit ., VII. 536.