excerptor

[Lat. excerpt us, pa. par. of ex cerpo.] One who makes excerpts, extracts, or selections. "I have not been surreptitious of whole pages together out of the doctor's printed volumes, and appropriated them to myself without any mark, or asterism, as he has done. I am no such excerptor."-Barnard: Life of Heylin, IMG:content-1224.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A state of being in too great quantity, degree, or amount; superabundance. "The several rays in that white light retain their colorific qualities, by which those of any sort, whenever they become more copious than the rest, do by their exce and predominance cause their proper color to appear."-Newton: Optics. 3. Extravagance of any kind; a transgre ion or pa ing beyond due limits. "Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profusene ; even parsimony itself, which sits but ill upon a public figure, is yet the more pardonable exce of the two."Atterbury. 4. Undue or exce ive indulgence of appetite or of the desires; over-indulgence. "There will be need of temperance in diet; for the body, once heavy with exce and surfeits, hangs piummets on the nobler parts."-Duppa.. II. Arith. & Geom.: The amount by which one number or quantity exceeds another; the difference between the greater of two unequal numbers and the le : thus, 6 is the exce of 8 over 2. Spherical exce : The exce of the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle over two right angles, or 180°. Crabb thus discriminates between exce , super fluity, and redundancy: " Exce is that which exceeds any measure; superfluity and redundancy signify an exce of a good measure. We may have an exce of heat or cold, wet or dry, when we have more than the ordinary quantity; but we have a superfluity of provisions when we have more than we want. Exce is applicable to any object; but superfluity and redundancy are species of exce . We may have an exce of prosperity or adversity; a superfluity of good things; and a redundancy of speech or words." (Crabb: Eng . Synon .)