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<h1>Existential</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex`is*ten"tial</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having existence. <mark>[Archaic]</mark> <i>Bp. Barlow.</i></def> --<wordforms><wf>Ex`is*ten"tial*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> <mark>[Archaic]</mark></wordforms>

<blockquote><b>Existentially</b> as well as essentially intelligent. <i>Colerige.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exister</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*ist"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who exists.</def>

<h1>Existible</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*ist"i*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of existence.</def>

<i>Grew.</i>

<h1>Existimation</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*is`ti*ma"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>existimatio</ets> judgment, opinion, fr. <ets>existimare</ets> to estimate. See <er>Estimate</er>.]</ety> <def>Esteem; opinion; reputation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Steele.</i>

<h1>Exit</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex"it</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of <ets>exire</ets> to go out. See <er>Exeunt</er>, <er>Issue</er>.]</ety> <def>He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; <as>as, <ex>exit</ex> Macbeth</as>.</def>

<note>&hand; The Latin words <i>exit</i> (he or she goes out), and <i>exeunt</i> ( they go out), are used in dramatic writings to indicate the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of the actors.</note>

<h1>Exit</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex"it</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See 1st <er>Exit</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.</def>

<blockquote>They have their <b>exits</b> and their entrances. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; <as>as, to make one's <ex>exit</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>Sighs for his <b>exit</b>, vulgarly called death. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.</def>

<blockquote>Forcing he water forth thought its ordinary <b>exists</b>. <i>Woodward.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exitial, Exitious</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw><hw>Ex*i"tial</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ex*i"tious</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>exitialis</ets>, <ets>exitious</ets>, fr. <ets>exitium</ets> a going out, a going to naught, <ets>i</ets>. <ets>e</ets>., ruin, fr.<ets>exire</ets> to go out: cf. F. <ets>exitial</ets>.]</ety> <def>Destructive; fatal.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Exitial</i> fevers."

<i>Harvey.</i>

<h1>Exo</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex"o</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[Gr. <?/ out of, outside, fr. <?/ out. See <er>Ex</er>-.]</ety> <def>A prefix signifying <i>out of</i>, <i>outside</i>; as in <i>exo</i>carp, <i>exo</i>gen, <i>exo</i>skeleton.</def>

<h1>Exocardiac, Exocardial</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw><hw>Ex`o*car"di*ac</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ex`o*car"di*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Exo-</ets> + Gr. <?/ heat.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Situated or arising outside of the heat; <as>as, <ex>exocardial</ex> murmurs</as>; -- opposed to <i>endocardiac</i>.</def>

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