exceptiousnesst (eksepshusnes)

The character of being exceptious. Barrow. exceptive (ek-sep'tiv), a. [= OF. except if = Sp. Pg. exceptivo; as except, v., + -ive.] 1. Making or constituting an exception. A dispensation, improperly so called, is rather a particular and exceptive law; absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause. Milton , Divorce, v. (Ord MS.). I do not think we shall err in conceiving of the character of Buddha as embracing that rare combination of qualities which lends to certain exceptive personalities a strange power over all who come within the range of their in flu Faiths of the World , p. 42. ence. exceptle t (ek-sept'les), a . [ except + -le .] Making no exception; extending to all. Forgive my general and exceptle rashne , You perpetual-sober gods! I do proclaim One honest man. ceed: see exceed .] 1. A going beyond ordinary, nece ary, or proper limits; superfluity in num- ber, quantity, or amount; undue quantity; su- per abundance: as, an exce of provisions; ex- ce of bile in the system. With taper-light To seek the beauteous eyes of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous exce . Shak ., K. John, iv. 2. I will dazzle Cæsar with exce of glory. Fletcher (and another ), False One, iii. 3. Every exce causes a defect; every defect an exce . Emerson, Compensation. Raw meat and other nutritious substances, given in ex- ce , kill the leaves. Daruin, Insectiv. Plants, p. 110. 2. Undue indulgence of appetite; want of re- straint in gratifying the desires; intemperance; over-indulgence. After al this exce e he had an accidie [fit of sloth], That he slepe Saterday and Sonday til sonne gede to reste. Piers Plowman (B), v. 366. He plunged into wild and desperate exce es , ennobled Macaulay , Moore's Byron. 2. In law , one who enters an exception. excerebrate (ek-ser'ē-brāt), v . t .; pret. and pp. excerebrated , ppr. excerebrating . [ brat us , pp. of excerebrare , deprive of brains, L. ex- priv. + cerebrum , the brain.] 1. To re- move or beat out the brains of. Bailey , 1731. [Rare.] 2. To cast out from the brain or mind. Hath it [faith] not sovereign virtue in it to excerebrate all cares, expectorate all fears and griefs? Like one that sees his own exce , And easily forgives it as his own. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 'Tis but the fool that loves exce ; hast thou a drunken soul? Thy bane is in thy shallow skull, not in my silver bowl! O. W. Holmes, On Lending a Punch-bowl. 3. The amount by which one number or quan- tity exceeds another; overplus; surplus: as, the exce of revenue over expenditures is so much. - Spherical exce , in trigon ., the quantity by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds exce iu = Sp. excesivo = Pg. exce ivo = It. ec- ce ivo, exce ivus , immoderate, ex- ce us, pp. of excedere , exceed: see exce , ex- ceed .] Exceeding the usual or proper limit, de- gree, measure, or proportion; being in exce of what is requisite or proper; going beyond what is sanctioned by correct principles; immoder- ate; extravagant; unreasonable: as, exce ive bulk; exce ive labor; exce ive charges; exces- sive vanity; exce ive indulgence. They were addicted to exce ive banket ting and drun- kenne e. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 68. If a man worke but three daies in seuen, hee may get more then hee can spend vnle hee will be exceedingly ex- ce iue. Capt. John Smith , True Travels, II. 201. Who is not exce ive in the discourse of what he ex- tremely likes? Steele, Tatler, No. 182. His information would have been exce ive , but for the noble use he made of it ever in the interest of humanity. Emerson , Theodore Parker. =Syn. Immense, etc. (see enormous ); superabundant, superfluous; inordinate, outrageous, extreme; in temper- ate, violent. exce ively (ek-ses'iv-li), adv . 1. With exce ; in an extreme degree; beyond measure: as, exce ively impatient; exce ively grieved; the wind blew exce ively . The wind is often so exce ively hot, that it is like the air of an oven, and people are forced to retire into the lower rooms and to their vaults, and shut themselves close up. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 195. A man must be exce ively stupid, as well as unchari- table, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side, Add is on. 2. Exceedingly; extremely: as, she was exces- sively beautiful. [Now only in loose use.] Crébillon said, then he would keep the picture himself - it was exce ively like. Walpole , Letters, II. 295. 3t. In exce ; intemperately. Which having swallowd up exce ively , He soone in vomit up againe doth lay. Spenser , F. Q., II. xii. 3. The state or excerption (ek-sérp's hon), n. [ excerp- tio (n-), an extract, excerpere , pp. excerpt us , pick out: see excerp , excerpt .] 1. The act of excerpting or picking out; a gleaning; selecexce ivene (ek-ses'iv-nes), n. tion.-2. That which is selected or gleaned; quality of being exce ive; exce . an excerpt. [Rare.] exch. A common abbreviation of exchange and exchequer . exchange (eks-chanj'), r.; pret. and pp. ex- changed , ppr. exchanging . [The verb does not appear in ME.; the prefix restored to the orig. ex- ; eschanger , echanger , F. échanger = Pr. escanjar , escambiar = It. scambiare , excamb i are , exchange, ex , out, + cambiare , change, > OF. changer , etc., E. change : see change, v., which is in part an abbreviation, by apheresis, of exchange .] I. trans. 1. In com ., to part with in return for some equivalent; transfer for a recompense; barter: as, to ex- change goods in foreign countries for their na- tive productions; the workman exchanges his labor for money. They shall not sell of it, neither exchange , nor alienate the first fruits of the land. Ezek. xlvii. 14. 3. To quit or part with for something else; give up in substitution; make a change or tran- sition from: as, to exchange a crown for a cowl; to exchange a throne for a cell or a hermitage; to exchange a life of ease for a life of toil. Wrong of right, and bad of good did make, And death for life exchanged foolish lie. As a general rule, then, things tend to exchange for one another at such values as will enable each producer to be repaid the cost of production with the ordinary profit. J. S. Mill , Pol. Econ., III. iii. § 1. exchange (eks-chanj'), n. [The prefix restored to the orig. ex- ; ME.eschange , eschaunge , escange , mod. F. échange = Pr. escambi = It. scambio , excambium , exchange, ex- cambiare , exchange: see exchange , v . See also change , n., which in some uses is an abbrevia- tion of exchange .] 1. The giving of one thing or commodity for another; the act of parting with something in return for an equivalent: traffic by interchange of commodities; barter. 2. The act of giving up or resigning one thing or state for another: as, the exchange of a crown for a cloister. I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me, For I am much asham'd of my exchange [of garments]. Shak., M. of V., ii. 6. 3. The act of giving and receiving reciprocally; mutual transfer: as, an exchange of thoughts or of civilities. When, and where, and how We met, we woo'd, and made exchange of vow, I'll tell thee as we pa . IMG:content-0861.png:[blocks in formation] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary exchange the actual transference of the money-documents, usually called bills of exchange, representing values, being given and received. (c) The rate at which the documentary transfer of funds can be made; the course or rate of exchange: as, if the debts reciprocally due by two places be equal, the exchange will be at par; but when greater in one than in the other, the exchange will be against that place which has the larger remittances to make, ake, and in favor of the other. Abbreviated exch.-9. A place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city in general, or those of a particular cla , meet at certain hours daily to transact busine with one another by purchase and sale. In some exchanges, as the great Merchants' Exchange of London, the dealings include all kinds of commodities, stocks, bonds, and bills; in others, as the Bourse of Paris and the Stock Exchange of New York, they are confined chiefly or entirely to public and corporate stocks and bonds; and still others are devoted to transactions in single cla es of commodities or investments, as cotton, corn, or produce in general, mining-stocks, etc. I was at the Pallace, where there is an exchange : that is, a place where the March ants doe meete at those times of the day, as our March ants doe in London. Coryat, Crudities, I. 30. He that uses the same words sometimes in one, and sometimes in another signification, ought to pa , in the schools, for as fair a man as he does in the market and exchange who sells several things under the same name. Locke. 10. The central station where the lines from all the subscribers in any telephone system meet, and where connections can be made between the lines.-11. In arith., a rule for finding how much of the money of one country is equivalent to a given sum of the money of another. All the calculations in exchange may be per formed by the rule of proportion, and the work may often be abbreviated by the method of aliquot parts. - Arbitration of exchange. See arbitrage, 2.- Bill of exchange. See bill3.-Bills of Exchange Act. (a) A British statute of 1871 (34 and 35 Vict., c. 74) which abolished days of grace on bills and notes payable at sight or on present a signature a sufficient acceptance. (c) A statute of 1882 (45 and 46 Vict., c. 61) which codifies the whole body of English law relating to bills, notes, and checks. - Course or rate of exchange, the varying rate or price, estimated in the currency of one country, given for a fixed sum in the currency of another.- Documentary exchange. Same as document bill (which see, under document ). - Dry exchange, an old expre ion for a device for concealing usury, by the borrower drawing a bill on an imaginary drawee in some foreign place which the payee accepts for the sake of a higher commi ion, and costs of protest and damages on return of the dishonored bill. (b) A statute of 1878 (41 Vict., c. which Dry exchange seemeth to bee a cleanly terme inuented for the disguising of foule vsury, in the which something is pretended to pa e of both sides, whereas in truth, nothing pa eth, but on the one side; in which respect, it may well be called Drie. Minsheu. Exchange cap. See capl, 3. - Feigned exchange, an old expre ion for the lending of money upon agreement that if not repaid by a certain day, in order to enable the lender to meet a bill feigned to be drawn upon him from a foreign country, the borrower may be charged with the expenses and commi ions: a device for charging the price of foreign exchange and incidental expenses upon a domestic loan. First, second, or third of exchange, the first, second, or third of a set of bills of exchange drawn in duplicate or triplicate, all being of "the same tenor and date," any one of which being accepted, the others are void.- Nominal exchange, exchange in its relation to the comparative market values of the currencies of the different countries, without reference to the trade transactions between them. - Owelty of exchange. See owelty. Real exchange, exchange in its relation to the interchange of commodities, and not in the relation of the inoneys of the different countries. Theory of exchanges, a theory introduced by Prevost for explaining the equilibrium of temperature of any body. It is founded on the supposition that the quantity of heat which a body diffuses by radiation is equal to the quantity which it receives by radiation from surrounding bodies, and which it absorbs either wholly or in part. To note a bill of exchange. See note. Syn. 1-3. Exchange, Interchange. Exchange may bring only one actor into prominence, or two may be equally prominent: if more than two take part in an exchange, the mind rests upon the act as performed by pairs. An interchange is not the act of one, nor generally of two, but of more than two, inter change in this bearing to exchange the relation that among bears to between. Exchange is primarily a single act; in terchange may be a single act, but is often a system or succe ion of changes. I give away myself for you, and dote upon the exchange. Shak., Much Ado, ii. 1. Interchanges of cold frosts and piercing winds. Bp. Hall , Heaven upon Earth, § 8. exchangeability (eks-chan-ja-bil'i-ti), n. [ changeable : see- bility .] The property or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not to be contravened by an expre article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington, exchangeable (eks-chan'ja-bl), a. [= F. échan geable; as exchange + -able.] 1. Capable of being exchanged: fit or proper to be exchanged. IMG:content-0863.png:[blocks in formation] exciding. [L. excidere, cut out, Bank bills exchangeable for gold and silver. Ramsay. excide (ek-sīd'), v . t .; pret.and pp. excided , ppr. The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe. Marshall. 2. Ratable by exchange; to be estimated by what may be procured in exchange: as, the exchangeable value of goods. IMG:content-0864.png:[blocks in formation] Mat. xxv. 27.