v. t. [ L. excaecatus, p. p. of excaecare to blind; ex (intens.) + caecare to blind, caecus blind. ] To blind. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of making blind. [ Obs. ] Bp. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. excedens, -entis, p. pr. of excedere. See Exceed, v. t. ] Excess. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exceeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exceeding. ] [ L. excedere, excessum, to go away or beyond; ex out + cedere to go, to pass: cf. F. excéder. See Cede. ] To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours. [ 1913 Webster ]

Name the time, but let it not
Exceed three days. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Pope.

Syn. -- To outdo; surpass; excel; transcend; outstrip; outvie; overtop. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure. “In our reverence to whom, we can not possibly exceed.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed. Deut. xxv. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be more or greater; to be paramount. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of exceeding or surpassing. [ Obs. ] Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who exceeds. Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. “The exceeding riches of his grace.” Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]

adv. In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly. [ Archaic. It is not joined to verbs. ] “The voice exceeding loud.” Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow. Mark ix. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Excelled p. pr. & vb. n. Excelling. ] [ L. excellere, excelsum; ex out + a root found in culmen height, top; cf. F. exceller. See Culminate, Column. ] 1. To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Excelling others, these were great;
Thou, greater still, must these excel. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. Eccl. ii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exceed or go beyond; to surpass. [ 1913 Webster ]

She opened; but to shut
Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. Gen. xlix. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. excellence, L. excellentia. ] 1. The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consider first that great
Or bright infers not excellence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue. [ 1913 Webster ]

With every excellence refined. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do greet your excellence
With letters of commission from the king. Shak.

Syn. -- Superiority; preëminence; perfection; worth; goodness; purity; greatness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Excellencies 1. Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority. [ 1913 Webster ]

His excellency is over Israel. Ps. lxviii. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. excellent, L. excellens, -entis, p. pr. of excellere. See Excel. ] 1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action. [ 1913 Webster ]

To love . . .
What I see excellent in good or fair. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance. [ Obs. or Ironical ] “An excellent hypocrite.” Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their sorrows are most excellent. Beau. & Fl.

Syn. -- Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite; transcendent; admirable; worthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [ Obs. ] “This comes off well and excellent.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an excellent manner; well in a high degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When the whole heart is excellently sorry. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ a. [ L., compar. of excelsus elevated, lofty, p. p. of excellere. See Excel, v. t. ] More lofty; still higher; ever upward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ex- + central. ] (Bot.) Out of the center.

{ } a. 1. Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Math.) Same as Eccentricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Excepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excepting. ] [ L. exceptus, p. p. of excipere to take or draw out, to except; ex out + capere to take: cf. F. excepter. See Capable. ] 1. To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who never touched
The excepted tree. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To object to; to protest against. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony. [ 1913 Webster ]

Except thou wilt except against my love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode. ] With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting. [ 1913 Webster ]

God and his Son except,
Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned. Milton.

Syn. -- Except, Excepting, But, Save, Besides. Excepting, except, but, and save are exclusive. Except marks exclusion more pointedly. “I have finished all the letters except one, ” is more marked than “I have finished all the letters but one.” Excepting is the same as except, but less used. Save is chiefly found in poetry. Besides (lit., by the side of) is in the nature of addition. “There is no one here except or but him, ” means, take him away and there is nobody present. “There is nobody here besides him, ” means, he is present and by the side of, or in addition to, him is nobody. “Few ladies, except her Majesty, could have made themselves heard.” In this example, besides should be used, not except. [ 1913 Webster ]

conj. Unless; if it be not so that. [ 1913 Webster ]

And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Gen. xxxii. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

But yesterday you never opened lip,
Except, indeed, to drink. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Making exception. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. & conj., but properly a participle. With rejection or exception of; excluding; except. “Excepting your worship's presence.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself. Lubbock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exceptio: cf. F. exception. ] 1. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark,
Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Often with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

That proud exception to all nature's laws. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [ relation ]. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . took exception to the place of their burial. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

She takes exceptions at your person. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bill of exceptions (Law), a statement of exceptions to the decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a cause, made for the purpose of putting the points decided on record so as to bring them before a superior court or the full bench for review. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem. Addison. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Cf. F. exceptionnel. ] Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett (Th. )

-- Ex*cep"tion*al*lyadv. [1913 Webster]

n. One who takes exceptions or makes objections. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without exception. [ 1913 Webster ]

A universal, . . . exceptionless disqualification. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious. South.

-- Ex*cep"tious*ness, n. [Obs.] Barrow. [1913 Webster]

a. That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

A particular and exceptive law. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not exceptional; usual. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My general and exceptless rashness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a scribe. ] One who takes exceptions. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. excerebratus deprived of brains; ex out + cerebrum brain. ] The act of removing or beating out the brains. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Excerebration. ] Brainless. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. excernere. See Excrete. ] To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Excern. ] (Physiol.) Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. excerpere, excerptum; ex out + carpere to pick, gather. See Harvest, and cf. Scarce, a. ] To pick out. [ Obs. ] Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Excerpted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excerpting. ] [ From L. excerptus, p. p. See Excerp. ] To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. excerptio. ] 1. The act of excerpting or selecting. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is selected or gleaned; an extract. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His excerptions out of the Fathers. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That excerpts, selects, or chooses. D. L. Mackenzie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. exces, excess, ecstasy, L. excessus a going out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go beyond: cf. F. excès. See Exceed. ] 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light. [ 1913 Webster ]

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet, . . .
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. Eph. v. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy desire . . . leads to no excess
That reaches blame. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spherical excess (Geom.), the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. excessif. ] Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Excessive grief [ is ] the enemy to the living. Shak.

Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous

--Ex*cess*ive*ly, adv. -Ex*cess"ive*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. Superior excellence; extraordinary excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]