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A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.

That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes. [Eng.]

subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service. True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak. T is laid on all, not any one exempt. Dryden.

ty; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc.

To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution. Examples gross as earth exhort me. Shak. Let me exhort you to take care of yourself. J. D. Forbes.

Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition. I'll end my exhortation after dinner. Shak.

etimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude. Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan. To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp. Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only purs…

Combat; war. [Obs.] He made haste to exploit some warlike service. Holland.

se the faults of a neighbor. You only expose the follies of men, without arraigning their vices. Dryden.

ightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak. I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough. Shak.

; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.

ction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.

Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.

her, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. Bancroft.

The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools. To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.

t of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife. A most unnatural and faithless service. Shak.

running out. Faking box, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.