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

ill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] Nichol. Dr.Burton has with much ingenuity endeavord to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander.

Extemporaneous. [Obs] Burton.

Beyond the material world. "An extramundane being." Bp. Warburton.

To rove. Bp. Warburton.

Exultation. [Obs.] Burton. Hammond.

rced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. Bp. Warburton.

frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton.

elicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking. "Felicity of expression." Bp. Warburton.

Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous. [R.] "Feral accidents." Burton.

To feather, as an arrow. Bp. Warburton. [Congress] fletched their complaint, by adding: "America loved his brother." Bancroft.

- Friar skate (Zoöl.), the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor.

The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. To smother him with fumes and eulogies. Burton. In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.

A blockhead; a dolt; a fool. [Obs.] Burton.

To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle. [Obs.] Burton.

A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment. [Colloq.] Burton.

Bulky, big. [Obs.] Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv.

Accordant with, or relating to, the gospel; evangelical; as, gospel righteousness. Bp. Warburton.

A stern man. [Obs.] Burton.

One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.