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Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4. [Obs.] Hutton.

Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10. [Obs.] Hutton.

To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.

Overplus or excess of proportion. Sir K. Digby.

Excessive purgation. Wiseman.

To reward to an excessive degree. Bacon.

Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive. -- Su`per*sen"si*tive*ness, n.

Excessively sensuous.

An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.

To impregnate or combine with an excess of sulphur.

Tragical to excess.

An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne. A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense. Bacon.

Excess in eating and drinking. Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. Piers Plowman. Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made. Shak.

That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.

Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser. A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature. Emerson.

To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess. South.

Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive. [Obs. or Slang] B. Jonson.

To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

on condition that a minimum task be performed. When the workman is paid in proportion for excess over the minimum, the wage is one for piece-work.

Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.