Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E

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Excentrical (a.) 偏心的（不位于中心的） Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.

Excentrical (a.) (Bot.) One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. -- Gray.

Excentricity (n.) (Math.) 偏心率（不共心性） Same as Eccentricity.

Excepted (imp. & p. p.) of Except.

Excepting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Except.

Except (prep.) 除……之外 With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

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

Syn: Except, Excepting, But, Save, Besides.

Usage: 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.

Except (v. t.) 把…排除在外，反對，對…提出異議 To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

Who never touched The excepted tree. -- Milton.

Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.

Except (v. t.) To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Except (v. i.) To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.

Except thou wilt except against my love. -- Shak.

Except (conj.) 除了；要不是；但是 Unless; if it be not so that.

And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. -- Gen. xxxii. 26.

But yesterday you never opened lip, Except, indeed, to drink. -- Tennyson.

Note: As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except.

Except (v.) Take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday" [syn: demur, except].

Except (v.) Prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out] [ant: include].

Exceptant (a.) 例外的 Making exception.

Excepting (prep. & conj., but properly a participle) With rejection or exception of; excluding; except. "Excepting your worship's presence." -- Shak.

No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself. -- Lubbock.

Exception (n.) 例外；例外的人（或事物）[C] [（+to）]；除外；除去，被除去 [U] The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

Exception (n.) 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.

Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark, Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark. -- Cowper.

Note: Often with to.

That proud exception to all nature's laws. -- Pope.

Exception (n.) (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.

Exception (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.

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

He . . . took exception to the place of their burial. -- Bacon.

She takes exceptions at your person. -- Shak.

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.

Exception (n.) A deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news" [syn: exception, exclusion, elision].

Exception (n.) An instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization; "all her children were brilliant; the only exception was her last child"; "an exception tests the rule".

Exception (n.) Grounds for adverse criticism; "his authority is beyond exception".

Exception, () An error condition that changes the normal flow of control in a program. An exception may be generated ("raised") by hardware or software. Hardware exceptions include reset, interrupt or a signal from a memory management unit. Exceptions may be generated by the arithmetic logic unit or floating-point unit for numerical errors such as divide by zero, overflow or underflow or instruction decoding errors such as privileged, reserved, trap or undefined instructions. Software exceptions are even more varied and the term could be applied to any kind of error checking which alters the normal behaviour of the program. (1994-10-31)

Exception, () Eng. Eq. practice. Re-interrogation. 2 Benth. Ev. 208, n.

Exception, () legislation, construction. Exceptions are rules which limit the extent of other more general rules, and render that just and proper, which would be, on account of its generality, unjust and improper. For example, it is a general rule that parties competent may make contracts; the rule that they shall not make any contrary to equity, or contra bonos mores, is the exception.

Exception, () contracts. An exception is a clause in a deed,. by which the lessor excepts something out of that which he granted before by the deed.

Exception, () To make a valid exception, these things must concur: 1. The exception must be by apt words; as, saving and excepting, &c. 2. It must be of part of the thing previously described, and not of some other thing. 3. It must be part of the thing only, and not of all, the greater part, or the effect of the thing granted; an exception, therefore, in a lease, which extends to the whole thing demised, is void. 4. It must be of such thing as is severable from the demised premises, and hot of an inseparable incident. 5. It must be of a thing as he that accepts may have, and which properly belongs to him. 6. It must be of a particular thing out of a general, and not of a particular thing out of a particular thing. 7. It must be particularly described and set forth; a lease of a tract of land, except one acre, would be void, because that acre was not particularly described. Woodf. Landl. and Ten. 10; Co. Litt. 47 a; Touchs. 77; 1 Shepl. R. 337; Wright's R. 711; 3 John. R., 375 8 Conn. R. 369; 6 Pick. R. 499; 6 N. H. Rep. 421. Exceptions against common right and general rules are construed as strictly as possible. 1 Barton's Elem. Conv. 68.

Exception, () An exception differs from a reservation; the former is always a part of the thing granted; the latter is of a thing not in esse but newly created or reserved. An exception differs also from an explanation, which by the use of a videlicet, proviso, &c., is allowed only to explain doubtful clauses precedent, or to separate and distribute generals, into particulars. 3 Pick. R. 272.

Exception, () practice, pleading. This term is used in the civil, nearly in the same sense that the word plea has in the common law. Merl. Repert. h.t.; Ayl. Parerg. 251.

Exception, () In chancery practice, it is the allegation of a party in writing, that some pleading or proceeding in a cause is insufficient. 1 Harr. Ch. Pr. 228.

Exception, () Exceptions are dilatory or peremptory. Bract. lib. 5, tr. 5; Britton, cap. 91, 92; 1 Lilly's Ab. 559. Dilatory exceptions are such as do not tend to defeat the action, but only to retard its progress. Poth. Proc. civ. partie 1, c. 2, s. 2, art. 1; Code of Pract. of Lo. art. 332. Declinatory exceptions have this effect, as well as the exception of discussion opposed by a third possessor, or by a surety in an hypothecary action, or the exception taken in order to call in the warrantor. Id.; 7 N. S. 282; 1 L. R. 38, 420. These exceptions must, in general, be pleaded in limine litis before issue joined. Civ. Code of Lo. 2260; 1 N. S. 703; 2 N. S. 389; 4 L. R. 104; 10 L. R. 546. A declinatory exception is a species of dilatory exception, which merely declines the jurisdiction of the judge before whom the action is brought. Code of Pr. of L. 334.

Exception, () Peremptory exceptions are those which tend to the dismissal of the action. Some relate to forms, others arise from the law. Those which relate to forms, tend to have the cause dismissed, owing to some nullities in the proceedings. These must be pleaded in limine litis. Peremptory exceptions founded on law, are those which, without going into the merits of the cause, show that the plaintiff cannot maintain his action, either because it is prescribed, or because the cause of action has been destroyed or extinguished. These may be pleaded at any time previous to definitive judgment. Id. art. 343, 346; Poth. Proc. Civ. partie 1, c. 2, s. 1, 2, 3. These, in the French law, are called Fins de. non recevoir. (q.v.)

Exception, () By exception is also meant the objection which is made to the decision of a judge in the course of a trial. See Bill of Exception.

Exception, (n.) A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc. "The exception proves the rule" is an expression constantly upon the lips of the ignorant, who parrot it from one another with never a thought of its absurdity. In the Latin, "_Exceptio probat regulam_" means that the exception _tests_ the rule, puts it to the proof, not _confirms_ it. The malefactor who drew the meaning from this excellent dictum and substituted a contrary one of his own exerted an evil power which appears to be immortal.

Exceptionable (a.) 可以反對的；會引起反對的；例外的 Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n.

This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem. -- Addison.

Exceptionable (a.) Liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to; "a thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing"; "found the politician's views objectionable" [syn: exceptionable, objectionable].

Exceptional (a.) 例外的；異常的；特殊的；優秀的；卓越的 Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. -- Lyell.

This particular spot had exceptional advantages. -- Jowett (Th.) -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly, adv.

Exceptional (a.) Far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents" [syn: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing].

Exceptional (a.) Surpassing what is common or usual or expected; "he paid especial attention to her"; "exceptional kindness"; "a matter of particular and unusual importance"; "a special occasion"; "A special reason to confide in her"; "what's so special about the year 2000?" [syn: especial(a), exceptional, particular(a), special].

Exceptional (a.) Deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence; "special educational provisions for exceptional children".

Exceptionally (adv.) 例外地；異常地；特殊地 To an exceptional degree; "it worked exceptionally well".

Exceptioner (n.) One who takes exceptions or makes objections. [Obs.] -- Milton.

Exceptionless (a.) Without exception.

A universal, . . . exceptionless disqualification. -- Bancroft.

Exceptious (a.) Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious. [Obs.]

At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious. -- South. -- Ex*cep"tious*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Barrow.

Exceptive (a.) That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. -- I. Watts.

A particular and exceptive law. -- Milton.

Exceptless (a.) Not exceptional; usual. [Obs.]

My general and exceptless rashness. -- Shak.

Exceptor (n.) One who takes exceptions. -- T. Burnet.

Excerebration (n.) The act of removing or beating out the brains.

Excerebrose (a.) Brainless. [R.]

Excern (v. t.) To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. [R.] -- Bacon.

Excernent (a.) (Physiol.) Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.

Excerp (a.) To pick out. [Obs.] -- Hales.

Excerpted (imp. & p. p.) of Excerpt.

Excerpting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excerpt.

Excerpt (v. t.) 摘錄，引用 To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.

Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. -- Fuller.

Excerpt (n.) 摘錄，引用 An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

Excerpt (n.) A passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings" [syn: excerpt, excerption, extract, selection].

Excerpt (v.) Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy [syn: excerpt, extract, take out].

Excerption (n.) The act of excerpting or selecting. [R.]

Excerption (n.) That which is selected or gleaned; an extract. [R.]

His excerptions out of the Fathers. -- Fuller.

Excerption (n.) A passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings" [syn: excerpt, excerption, extract, selection].

Excerptive (a.) That excerpts, selects, or chooses. -- D. L. Mackenzie.

Excerptor (n.) One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.

Excess (n.) 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 prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.

Excess (n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.

Excess (n.) 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.

Excessive (a.) Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. - Excessively (adv.), - Excessiveness (n.).

Excessive (a.) (C1) 過分的；過度的；過多的 Too much.

// Excessive exercise can sometimes cause health problems.

// Any more pudding would simply be excessive.

Excessively (adv.) 過分的；極端的 To a degree exceeding normal or proper limits; "too big" [syn: {excessively}, {overly}, {to a fault}, {too}].

Excessiveness (n.) 過度；極端 Immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits [syn: {excess}, {excessiveness} {inordinateness}].

Exchange (n.) The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

Exchange (n.) The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views.

Exchange (n.) The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another.

Exchange (n.) The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.

Exchange (n.) A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple.

Exchange (n.) The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change.

Exchanged (imp. & p. p.) of Exchange.

Exchanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exchange.

Exchange (n.) To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received.

Exchange (n.) To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell.

Exchange (n.) To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats.

Exchange (v. i.) To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.

Exchange Traded Funds (n.) An Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) is a type of fund that tracks an index, but can be traded like a stock. Because ETFs are traded on stock exchanges, they can be bought and sold at any time during the day (unlike most mutual funds). Their price will fluctuate from moment to moment, just like any other stock's price, and an investor will need a broker in order to purchase them. ETFs have many of the benefits inherent in Mutual Funds and Index Funds, but are more tax efficient.

Exchangeability (n.) The quality or state of being exchangeable.

Exchangeable (a.) Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.

Exchangeable (a.) Available for making exchanges; ratable.

Exchangeably (adv.) By way of exchange.

Exchanger (n.) One who exchanges; one who practices exchange.

Excheat (n.) See Escheat.

Excheator (n.) See Escheator.

Exchequer (n.) One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table. [Eng.]

Note: The exchequer was a court of law and equity. In the revenue department, it had jurisdiction over the proprietary rights of the crown against subjects; in the common law department, it administered justice in personal actions between subject and subject. A person proceeding against another in the revenue department was said to exchequer him. The judges of this court were one chief and four puisne barons, so styled. The Court of Exchequer Chamber sat as court of error in which the judgments of each of the superior courts of common law, in England, were subject to revision by the judges of the other two sitting collectively. Causes involving difficult questions of law were sometimes after argument, adjourned into this court from the other courts, for debate before judgment in the court below. Recent legislation in England (1880) has abolished the Court of Exchequer and the Court of Exchequer Chamber, as distinct tribunals, a single board of judiciary, the High Court of Justice, being established for the trial of all classes of civil cases. -- Wharton.

Exchequer (n.) 國庫；金庫 [C]；（個人的）資財；財力 [the S]；（大寫）英國財政部 [the S] The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low.

Barons of the exchequer. See under Baron.

Chancellor of the exchequer. See under Chancellor.

Exchequer bills or Exchequer bonds (Eng.), Bills of money, or promissory bills, issued from the exchequer by authority of Parliament; a species of paper currency emitted under the authority of the government, and bearing interest.

Exchequered (imp. & p. p.) of Exchequer.

Exchequering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exchequer.

Exchequer (v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.

Exchequer (n.) The funds of a government or institution or individual. [syn: treasury, exchequer].

Excide (v. t.) To cut off.

Excipient (v. t.) Taking an exception.

Excipient (n.) An exceptor.

Excipient (n.) An inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents.

Exciple (n.) Alt. of Excipulum.

Excipulum (n.) The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.

Excisable (a.) Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity.

Excise (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.

Excise (n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.

Excised (imp. & p. p.) of Excise.

Excising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excise.

Excise (v. t.) To lay or impose an excise upon.

Excise (v. t.) To impose upon; to overcharge. [Prov. Eng.]

Excise (v. t.) To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

The English excise system corresponds to the internal revenue system in the United States. -- Abbot.

An excise . . . is a fixed, absolute, and direct charge laid on merchandise, products, or commodities. -- 11 Allen's (Mass. ) Rpts.

Excise (n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes. [Eng.]

Excisemen (n. pl. ) of Exciseman.

Exciseman (n.) An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty. -- Macaulay.

Excision (n.) The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision. -- Atterbury.

Excision (n.) (Eccl.) The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.

Excision (n.) (Surg.) The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument. -- Dunglison.

Excitability (n.) The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Excitability (n.) (Physiol.) The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.

Excitable (a.) Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.

Excitant (a.) Tending to excite; exciting.

Excitant (n.) (Physiol.) An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.

Excitate (v. t.) To excite. [Obs.] -- Bacon.

Excitation (n.) The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. -- Bacon.

Excitation (n.) (Physiol.) The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.

Excitative (a.) Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory. -- Barrow.

Excitator (n.) (Elec.) A kind of discarder.

Excitatory (a.) Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.

Excited (imp. & p. p.) of Excite.

exciting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excite.

Excite (v. t.) To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

Excite (v. t.) (Physiol.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.

Excite (v. t.) (Elec.) To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.

Excite (v. t.) (Physics) To raise to a higher energy level; -- used especially of atoms or molecules, or of electrons within atoms or molecules; as, absorption of a photon excites the cesium atom, which subsequently radiates the excess energy.

Syn: To incite; awaken; animate; rouse or arouse; stimulate; inflame; irritate; provoke.

Usage: To Excite, Incite. When we excite we rouse into action feelings which were less strong; when we incite we spur on or urge forward to a specific act or end.

Demosthenes excited the passions of the Athenians against Philip, and thus incited the whole nation to unite in the war against him. Antony, by his speech over the body of C[ae]sar, so excited the feelings of the populace, that Brutus and his companions were compelled to flee from Rome; many however, were incited to join their standard, not only by love of liberty, but hopes of plunder.

Exciteful (n.) Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. -- Chapman.

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