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Ex*cerp" (?), v. t. [L. excerpere, excerptum; ex out + carpere to pick, gather. See Harvest, and cf. Scarce, a.] To pick out. [Obs.] Hales.

Ex*cerpt" (?), 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.

Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars.

Fuller.

Ex*cerp"t (277), n. An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

||Ex*cerp"tion (?), n. [L. excerptio.] 1. The act of excerpting or selecting. [R.]

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

His excerptions out of the Fathers.

Fuller.

Ex*cerp"tive (?), a. That excerpts, selects, or chooses. D. L. Mackenzie.

Ex*cerp"tor (?), n. One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.

Ex*cess" (?), 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.

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

Shak.

That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy.

Walsh.

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

Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.

Eph. v. 18.

Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame.

Milton.

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.

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.

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Ex*cess"ive (k*ss"v), a. [Cf. F. excessif.] Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.

Excessive grief the enemy to the living.

Shak.

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