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The quality of deserving esteem or regard.

Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating. We find in animals an estimative or judicial faculty. Sir M. Hale.

Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.

As might not be expected; -- serving to introduce what is unexpected or less expected. I have made several discoveries, which appear new, even to those who are versed in critical learning. Addison.

Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing. Evocative power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man. W. Pater.

th a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact. "I see thou art exact of taste." Milton.

Serving for example or pattern; exemplary. [Obs.] Hooker.

An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.

Serving to heat; warming. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory. Barrow.

Serving or tending to excite; excitative. [R.] Bamfield.

Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.

Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper. "Persons excommunicable ." Bp. Hall. What offenses are excommunicable Kenle.

Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. [R.] "The excrementive parts." Felthman.

. Capable of being exculpated; deserving exculpation. Sir G. Buck.

Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch. "Execrable pride." Hooker. -- Ex"e*cra*ble*ness, n. -- Ex"e*cra*bly, adv.

Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct. [Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary. Bacon.

Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.

Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory. Norris. -- Ex*hib"it*ive*ly, adv.

Serving to exhort; exhortatory; hortative. Barrow.