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Show EX BaX Gaodnels anfwers to the theologi¢al virtue chatity and admits no exce/s but error: the defire of powe in exce/s caufed the angels to fall; the defire o knowledge in excefs caufed man to fall; but i charity there is no excefdy neither can angel or ma come in danger by it Bacon's Effays . Members are crooked ot diftorted; or difpropottionate to the reft, either in excefs or defe¢t Ray 2. Exuberance; ftate of exceeding ; comparative exuberance Let the fuperfluous and luft dieted man ‘That braves your ordinance, feel your power quickly So diftribution fhall undo excefs And each man have enough. Shakefp. King Lear The feveral rays in that white light retain thei colorifick qualities, by which thofe of any fort whenever they become moré copious than the reft o by their exce/s and predominance caufe their proper colour to appear Newwton's Opticks 3. Intemperance; unreafonabl in meat and drink indulgenc It was excefs of wine that fet him on And on his more advice we pardon him Shakefp There will be need of temperdnce in diet; fo "the body, once heavy with excefs and furfeits, hang plurr_lmets on: the nobler parts Duppa 4. Violence of paffion A popular fway, by foicing kings to giv fi for objedt to receive Ran to the fame exttemes; and one excef Made both, by ftriving to be greater, lefs. Desham Hofpitality fometimes degenerates into profufenefs: even parfimony itfelf, which fits but ill upo a publick figure, is yet the more pardonable exref of the two Atterbury Excr'ss1vE. ady. [excefif, French; from excefs 2. Beyond the comstion proportion of quantity or bulk If the panicum be'laid below and about the bottom of a root, it will-caufe the root to ‘grow to a exceffive bignefs _ Bacon 2. Vehemen or diflike beyond meafure in kindnef Be not excefive toward any Ecclef The people's property it is, by exceffive favour o brin great me to mifery ceffive in pity and then to be ex Hayward EXCE'SSIVELY. adv, [from excoffve.] Bxceedingly ; eminently; in a great degree A man muft be exceffively ftupid; as well as uncharitable; who believes there is no virtue but o his own fide Addifon ToEXCHANGE. w. o, [exchanger, French; excambiare low Latin 1. To give or quit one thing for the fak of gaining another They fhall not fell of it; neither exchange no alienate the firft fruits Exek. xlviii. 14 Exchange his fheep for thells, or wool for a fparkling pebble, or a diamond Locke Take delight in the good things of this world, f "as to remember tha we are to part with thém an to exchange them for more excellent and durabl enjoyments 2. Lo give or take reciprocally Atrerbury Exchange forgivenefs with me noble Hamlét Mine and my father's blood, be not upon thee Nor thine on me Shakefpeare's Hamlet Words having naturally no fignification, the ide aauft be learned by thofe who would exchang -thoughts, and hold intelligible difcourfe with others, Licke Here then exchange we mutually forgivenefs So may the guiltof all my broken vows My perjuries to thee be all forgotten Rowe 3+ It has wizh before the perfon with who the exchange is made, and for before th thing taken in exchange The king called in the old money, and ere®e exchanges where the weight of old money was ex changed for new Locke aith thofe abtdad Excua/ncE. /. [from the verb.] 1. The aét of giving and receiving reciprocally e Camd Being acquainted with the laws and fathions o And thus they patted, with exchange of h_afms Much blood the monfteis loft; and tiey their armis Waller The lend their cotn; they inake excharnges they ai'}é' always teady toferve one another. Addifon 2. Traffick by permutation. The world is maintained by intercourfe; and Fh whole courfe of nature is a great exchaznge, in whic one good tutn is, and ought to be, the ftated pric of another South 3. The form or a& of transferring, properl by bills or notes T have bills for money by exchange From Florence, and muft here deliver them. Shakefp 4+ 'The balance of the money of differén IR Hationis He was fkilled in the exchange beyond feas, an in all the circumftances and practices thereof Hayward on Ediward V1 5. 'The thing given in return for fomethih received 5. Tranfgrefiion of due limits More than wa his own esuntry, he has femething to evchang If noneappear to prove upon thy petfo Thy heinous, manifeft, and many ti€afons; Thete is my pledge: I'll prove it on thy heatt: "-There's my exchange; what in the world he i That nimes me traitor, villain-like he lies: S/{a/eaf.p Spend all I have, only give me fo much time i exchange of it. Shakefp. Merry Wives of Windfor It made not the filver coined go for more tha its value in all things to be bought; but juft fo muc as the denomination was raifed, juft fo much lefs o commodity had the buyer in exchange for it. Locke 1f blood you feck, I will my own refig O fpare her life, and in éxchange take mine Dryd. Ind. Emp 6. The thing received in return for fomething given The relpet and love which was paid you by all who had the happinefs to know you, was a wif exchange for the honours of the court Dryden 7. The place where the merchants mee to negociate their affairs; place of fale He that ufes the fame words fometimes in one and fometithes in ahotherfignification, ought to pafs in the fchools for as fair a2 man as he does in th market and exchasnge, who fells feyeral things unde the fafl\i]name Locke No thing, no place is ftrange Diénbam Excua'verr. . /4 [from exchange. who pra&ifes exchange On Whilft bullion may be had for a fmall price mor than the weight of our current cafh, thefe exc/.wmger generally chufe rather to buy bullion than run th rifk of melting down our coin, which is criminal b the law ExcHEAT #. f che See EscHEAT He by my tuins thinks to make them great To make one gréat by others lofs, is bad excheat Spenfer ExcuEr'aATOR, 7. /. See EscHEATOR Thef officers cuftomer earls and duke a fheriff appointe admiral their {pecia receiver havener butler, fearcher, comptroller, gager, ex cheator, feodary, auditor, and clerk of the market Carew Excur'Quer #. f. [¢/chequeir, Norma ¥rench ; fehaccarium, low Latin, fro Sfehatz a treafure, German. b Th t wretches hire thofe to whom excife is paid people thould pay a raabje ta C ta fheep, and an excife for eyer 1 for thejy thing which e thould eat Yyward Ambitious now te take excife Of a more fragrant paradif Excife Cesvelon With hundred rows of teeth, the fhatk And on all trades like Caffawar fhe feed éecd‘v s, Marye) Hire large houfes, and opprefs the pdor By farm'd excife Dryder's Fipsen To Exctse.! w. a. [from th € nouns levy excife upon 4 petfon or thing T dn South-fea days, not happier when furmis' The lord of thoufands, than if riow excis'q Pope Exc1'seMAN 7. /i [excife and man | A office¢ r who1 infpedts commoditics, a d rate their e cife Excilsion ", [e.i:z‘i/z‘o; L';ltifi. .Extirp: tion; deftru®tion; ruin; the ad of cut ting off; the ftate of being cutoff Pride is one of the fataleft inflruments of exeffim Lecay of Pieyy Such conquerors are the inftruments of vengeanc on thofe nations that have filled up the meafur o iniquities, and are grown ripe for excifion, Atterbury Excira'TioN. # /£ [from excin, to e cite, Latin, 1. The att of exciting, or piitting into mo tion Vii All putiefattions comé from the ambient body either by ingrefs of the ambient body into the bod putrefied, or by excization and folicitation of the bod putrefied, by the body ambient Bacon 2. 'The att of roufing or awakening "The original of fenfible and fpiritual ideas ma be owing to fenfation and reflection, the recolleGtio While his fair bofom is the world's exchange T will be cheater t5 'tficm'hotb, i 'the%fl?g;‘v ex'cbegurrs to me Sbakejz,ém; You}i; treafurey Are quite exhaufted, the sp?; empty D Clipped money wil pafs \%}i'lftvthepgc}?hz')'mga kers and at leaff the exc eger takes jt, © 7 EXCI: 'SE. #. /. [acesjs utch ; 5 exciExcif,fum, e1 tlp: A(hatef.'ul tax levied‘upon CO,',,"I;' fhtles_, gnd_adgudge not by the Commog Judges of property, b 'The cour to which are brought all the revenues belonging to the crown, It confifts of tw parts; whereof one dealeth fpecially i the hearing and deciding of all caufes appertaining to the king's coffers: the othe 15 called the receipt of the exchequer which is properly employed in the recciv and frefh extirgtion of them to other occafions - Walts's Logick 70 EXCI'TE, . a. [excito, Latin, 1. 'To roufe; to animate; to ftirup; toen courage The Lacedemonians were more excifed to defir of Honou wit th excellen verfe of th; poe Tirtaeus, than with all the exhottations of their cap Spenfer's Ireland tains That kind of poefy which excites to virtue th greateft mef; is of greateft ufe to human kind Dgyde 2. 'To put in motion; to awaken; to raife Exci'TemMENT, 2 /. [from excite,] Th motive by which one is ftirred up, ani mated, or put if action How ftand T then That have a_father kill'd, a mother ftain'd Excitements of my reafon and my blood Shakefpeare's Tempef And let all fleep ? Excr'rer. z f [from excite. 1. One that ftirs up others, or puts them motion i They never punifhed the delinquency Ofc;berl Kin mults and their excirers Char 2. The caufe by which any thing is saife or put in motion Hope is the grand exciter of indu ' ge'rqy P |