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[Lat. extans, or exstans, pr. par. of exsto to stand out, to exist.] *1. Standing out or projecting beyond the rest; protruding. ( Ray .) *2. Publicly known; not suppre ed or kept back. IMG:content-1295.png:[blocks in formation] 3. In existence; in being; surviving; not lost or destroyed. "There are some ancient writings still extant which pa under the name of Sibylline oracles, but these oracles seem to have been all, from first to last, and without any exception, mere impostures."- Melmoth : Cicero , bk. ii, lett. 12. 1748 ěx-ta-sỹ, s. [ECSTASY.] STATICAL.] ex-tăt-Ic, *ex-tat-Ic-al, a. [ECSTATIC, Ec.