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vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia. Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales. Pope.

a picture in a gallery. Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope.

Exhortation. [Obs.] Pope.

Lights . . . high in the expanse of heaven. Milton. The smooth expanse of crystal lakes. Pope.

To range at large, or without restraint. Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies. Pope.

stituting an object of expectation; contingent. Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. Foxe.

. To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite "away." Pope.

While explectives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Pope.

to look wisely and carefully for. [Obs.] Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs. Pope.

used reflexively. Mr. Phillips did express with much indignation against me, one evening. Pope.

ilate; as, to expugne an offense. Sandys. Expugne the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts. Pope.

s then no less glorious in his externals South. God in externals could not place content. Pope.

The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe. Pope.

d by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation. The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise. Fuller. It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges. Evelyn.…

y; to disappear; to vanish. Gilded clouds, while we gaze upon them, faint before the eye. Pope.

r in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage. Pope.

n. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. Pope.

y; the family of Abraham; the father of a family. Go ! and pretennd your family is young. Pope.

A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple. [Written also fannel, phanon, etc.]

st." Eph. ii. 13. -- Far other, different by a great degree; not the same; quite unlike. Pope. -- Far and near, at a distance and close by; throughout a whole region. -- Far and wide, distantly and broadly; comprehensively. "Far and wide his eye commands." Milton. -- From far, from a great distance; from a remote p…