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He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

Destructive; fatal. [Obs.] "Exitial fevers." Harvey.

A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C.

Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.

omplex; intricacy; entanglement. The objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity. Burke.

of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.

A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr.)

f mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.

Nap of cloth. [Obs.]

Great advance in age. [Obs.]

The state or condition of being reflected. [R.]

A mineral occurring in white rounded crystalline masses. It is a hydrous borate of lime and soda.

Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; exiting in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.

In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country. Actual cautery. See under Cautery. -- Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."

Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

Here I . . . fell into a strong and deep amusement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood.

entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

ompass; hence (Fig.), to ascertain the condition of things when one is in trouble or perplexity.

To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison.

Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties. -- Be*wil"der*ing*ly, adv.