Search the Dictionary

One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger. Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits. South.

See Exauthorate. [Obs.]

See Exauthoration.

To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow. [Obs.] Holland.

The act of exaugurating; desecration. [Obs.]

To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge. [Obs.] Exauthorated for their unworthiness. Jer. Taylor.

Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of removing or beating out the brains.

s unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. "They . . . execrate their lct." Cowper.

ings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed. Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations. Shak.

Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying. Carlyle. -- Ex"e*cra*tive*ly, adv.

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

To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. [R.] Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.

Act of exenterating. [R.]

merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.

That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening. -- Ex*hil"a*ra`ting*ly, adv.

The state of being enlivened or cheerful. Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion. Bacon.

To unload; to disburden; to discharge. [Obs.] All exonerate themselves into one common duct. Ray.

The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.