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The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion. -- See Sacrament.

Pertaining to the Lord's Supper. "The eucharistic sacrament." Sir. G. C. Lewis.

ormulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers.

The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves. Syd. Soc. Lex.

greeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.

ng.), 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.

An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [Obs.] "Ornamental excrements." Fuller. Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts. Bacon.

uct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it. I must excuse what can not be amended. Shak.

The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.

ue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands. "a curb to your exorbitancies." Dryden. The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions. Bp. Hall.

Ornament; decoration; embellishment. [Obs.] Hyperbolical exornations . . . many much affect. Burton.

e of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin. To expiate his treason, hath naught left. Milton. The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury. Clarendon.

Expiration. He had to leave at the expiry of the term. Lamb. The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term. J. Morley.

manner that it was when committed. Ex post facto laws are held to be contrary to the fundamental principles of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States. Burrill. Kent.

s. Boyle. Expropriate these [bad landlords] as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament. M. Arnold.

nifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.

Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens. A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted. D. H. Barnes.

Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.

pulsion shall here be set in view. Milton. Upon mere extremity he summoned this last Parliament. Milton.

away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament.