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Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative. Johnson.

Heating; warming. [Obs.] Holland.

Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.

Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex action, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.

Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.

Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker. South. -- Ex*clam"a*to*ti*ly, adv.

Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.

. Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing. "An exculpatory letter." Johnson.

Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.

Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory. C. Kingsley. -- n.

taining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive. The official and executory duties of government. Burke.

Exhibiting; publicly showing. J. Warton.

Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory. Holinshed.

Expansive; diffusive. [R.]

Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.

ining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.

Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. Swift.

Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. Bp. Burnet.

Explicative. Barrow.