Part 4043

<h1>Eximious</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*im"ious</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>eximius</ets> taken out, <ets>i</ets>. <ets>e</ets>. select, fr. <ets>eximere</ets> to take out. See <er>Exempt</er>.]</ety> <def>Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The <b>eximious</b> and arcane science of physic. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exinanite</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*in"a*nite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>exinanitus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>exinanire</ets>; <ets>ex</ets> out (intens.) + <ets>inanire</ets> to make empty, <ets>inanis</ets>, empty.]</ety> <def>To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Pearson.</i>

<h1>Exinanition</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*in`a*ni"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def> <tt>n.</tt> [L. <i>exinanitio</i>.] An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Fastings to the <b>exinanition</b> of spirits. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exist</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*ist"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Existed</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Existing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>existere</ets>, <ets>exsistere</ets>, to step out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>sistere</ets> to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand still, fr. <ets>stare</ets> to stand: cf. F. <ets>exister</ets>. See <er>Stand</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.</def>

<blockquote>Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did <b>exist</b>. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To conceive the world . . . to have <b>existed</b> from eternity. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; <as>as, great evils <ex>existed</ex> in his reign</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; <as>as, men can not <ex>exist</ex> water, nor fishes on land</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Be</er>.</syn>

<h1>Existence</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*ist"ence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>existence</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; <as>as, the <ex>existence</ex> of body and of soul in union; the separate <ex>existence</ex> of the soul; immortal <ex>existence</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>The main object of our <b>existence</b>. <i>Lubbock.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; <as>as, the <ex>existence</ex> of a calamity or of a state of war</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>existence</b> therefore, of a phenomenon, is but another word for its being perceived, or for the inferred possibility of perceiving it. <i>J. S. Mill.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; <as>as, living <ex>existences</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Existency</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*ist"en*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Existence.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Sir M. Hale.</i>

<h1>Existent</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*ist"ent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>existens</ets>, <ets>-entis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>existere</ets>. See <er>Exist</er>.]</ety> <def>Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.</def>

<blockquote>The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly <b>existent</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>