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ills or bonds (Eng.), bills of money, or promissory bills, issued from the exchequer by authority of Parliament; a species of paper currency emitted under the authority of the government, and bearing interest.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.

e to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit. He exculpated himself from being the author of the heroic epistle. Mason. I exculpate him further for his writing against me. Milman.

One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist. [Obs.] Hume.

taining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc.

tort Etym: [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.

f a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned.

ut in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office. I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. Jer. ix. 24. The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Ezek. xxii. 29.…

Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.

To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country. Let them be recalled from their exile. Shak.

To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science. "Hidden frauds [to] explore." Dryden.

To polish thoroughly. [Obs.] Heywood.

The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. Shak.…

sitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.

Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora. Dunglison.

Out of or beyond the proper authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not legally required. "An extrajudicial opinion." Hallam. -- Ex`tra*ju*di"cial*ly, adv.

Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition;…

d, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. Hawthorne.

ly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.