Part 4093

<note>See <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Ravelin</er>.</note>

<h1>Exterior</h1> <Xpage=529>

<hw>Ex*te"ri*or</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; <as>as, the <ex>exteriors</ex> of religion</as>.</def>

<h1>Exteriority</h1> <Xpage=529>

<hw>Ex*te`ri*or"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>ext\'82riorit\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>Surface; superficies; externality.</def>

<h1>Exteriorly</h1> <Xpage=529>

<hw>Ex*te"ri*or*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Outwardly; externally; on the exterior.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>They are <b>exteriorly</b> lifelike. <i>J. H. Morse.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exterminate</h1> <Xpage=529>

<hw>Ex*ter"mi*nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Exterminated</er><tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Exterminating</er><tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>exterminatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>exterminare</ets> to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>terminus</ets> boundary, limit. See <er>Term</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To drive out or away; to expel.</def>

<blockquote>They deposed, <b>exterminated</b>, and deprived him of communion. <i>Barrow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; <as>as, to <ex>exterminate</ex> a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to <ex>exterminate</ex> error or vice.</as></def>

<blockquote>To explode and <b>exterminate</b> rank atheism. <i>Bentley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>To eliminate, as unknown quantities.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Extermination</h1> <Xpage=529>

<hw>Ex*ter`mi*na"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>extermination</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; <as>as, the <ex>extermination</ex> of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>Elimination.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Exterminator</h1> <Xpage=529>

<hw>Ex*ter"mi*na`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>One who, or that which, exterminates.</def>

<i>Buckle.</i>

<h1>Exterminatory</h1> <Xpage=529>

<hw>Ex*ter"mi*na*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate.</def> "<i>Exterminatory</i> war."

<i>Burke.</i>

<h1>Extermine</h1> <Xpage=529>

<hw>Ex*ter"mine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>exterminer</ets>.]</ety> <def>To exterminate; to destroy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>