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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.

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.

One excessively ambitious. [R.]

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.

An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.

Very; excessively. [Slang]

A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.

release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one. Excessive bail ought not to be required. Blackstone.

est excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.

To drug abundantly or excessively.

To flatter excessively.

Excessive or extended use of the b sound in speech, due to conversion of other sounds into it, as through inability to distinguish them from b, or because of difficulty in pronouncing them.

or that a train may be allowed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution, as in permissive blocking.