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hat is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shak. That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. Walsh.…

Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. Shak.

To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. [Obs.]

The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.

e; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

Excess of acetone in the urine, as in starvation or diabetes.

Excess; intemperance. [Obs. except in Med.] Farindon.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

A morbid condition due to excessive increase of albuminous elements in the blood.

A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.

One excessively ambitious. [R.]

Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser.

A remedy against excessive salivation.

orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.

Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.

Made sure; safe; insured; certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess.