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A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divide. Mozley & W.

ly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

One of the appellations of God. Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work. Hooker.

Abolition; nullification. [Obs.] Hooker. Evacuation day, the anniversary of the day on which the British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25, 1783.

one. Cf. Each. [Obs.] "Every of your wishes." Shak. Daily occasions given to every of us. Hooker. Every each, every one. [Obs.] "Every each of them hath some vices." Burton.. -- Every now and then, at short intervals; occasionally; repeatedly; frequently. [Colloq.]

und of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement. Faith is . . . the evidence of things not seen. Heb. xi. 1. O glorious trial of exceeding love Illustrious evidence, example high. Milton.

To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A voidable. [R.] Hooker.

To satirize; to censure severely. [Obs.] Hooker.

Serving for example or pattern; exemplary. [Obs.] Hooker.

ency is over Israel. Ps. lxviii. 34. Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency. Hooker.

That excerpts, selects, or chooses. D. L. Mackenzie.

as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch. "Execrable pride." Hooker. -- Ex"e*cra*ble*ness, n. -- Ex"e*cra*bly, adv.

or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy. Herein do I Exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence. Acts xxiv. 16.

Exigency. Hooker.

. . . [were] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for. Hooker.

Free of impediment; unimpeded. To make the way plain and expedite. Hooker.

To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.] Then he another and another [shaft] did expel. Spenser. .