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All derived from 9,053 borrowed from 5,710 learned borrowing from 1,127 calque of 209 semantic loan from 2 exactinio Synonym of actinon (“radon-219”). exacuate To hone, whet or sharpen. exagitate To excite, stir up. exagitation agitation examinant One who examines; an examiner. examinate One who is subjected to examination. exanimate Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead. exanimation Deprivation of life or spirits. exanimous lifeless; dead exantlate To exhaust or wear out. exarate Having the appendages free and not attached to the body wall. exaugurate To annul the consecration of: to deconsecrate, secularize, profane, or otherwise unhallow (historical) particularly in ancient Roman contexts. exauguration The act of exaugurating; desecration. exauthorate To deprive of authority or power exauthoration Deprivation of authority or dignity; degradation. excalceation The removal of the shoes. excantation Disenchantment by a countercharm. excarnificate To strip (something or someone) of flesh, perhaps as a form of torture. excave To excavate. excedent excess (of spending, people, goods, etc.) exceptio quod metus causa The exceptio metus; an exception based on the fact that the underlying cause of action was based on duress or intimidation by the plaintiff of the defendant. excerebration The act of removing a person's brains. excerp To pick out. excerption The act of excerpting or selecting. excide To cut off. excitate To excite. excoction The act of excocting or boiling out. excogitate To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate. excogitation Careful thought or consideration. ex contractu Of a legal obligation: arising from a contractual relationship. ex copula Not during copulation; not in the copulative state. excorticate To strip of bark, shell or skin. excreate To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. excreation The act of spitting out. excrescence Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else. excrescent A growing mutation, usually abnormal. excruciable Liable to torment. excruciate To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture. excubation A keeping watch; a vigil. excubitorium A gallery in a church, used for all-night vigils. excur To digress. excussion The process or proceedings whereby a creditor must proceed against a principal debtor before proceeding against a surety or subsidiary debtor. execrate To feel loathing for; to abhor. executorial Of or relating to an executive (branch of government etc.). exedent consuming; that eats away exeme To release; to exempt. exemplificate To exemplify. exequial Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal. exercent Currently working; practising; professional exesion The act of eating, or corroding, out or through. exestuation A boiling up or effervescence. exheredate To disinherit. exheredation A disinheriting; disherison. exhereditation A disinheriting; disherison. exhibitory exhibiting; publicly showing exhilarant Causing exhilaration or pleasure. exhilarate To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate. exiguous Scanty; meager. exilition The act of suddenly jumping up or out. exility Thinness, smallness; a shrunken or meagre condition. eximious Pre-eminent, outstanding. existimation Opinion, esteem or judgment. exitial destructive; fatal exitious Harmful, destructive, deadly, pernicious. ex libris A bookplate that identifies the owner of the book into which it is pasted. ex negativo From the negative. exnihilation The act of bringing into existence from nothing. ex nunc “from now on”. Used to describe certain legal effects which are applicable solely from this point (in time) on and therefore do not affect past actions. exoculate To deprive of eyes; blind. exode departure; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt exolete That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete. exolution a setting free of the spirit. exolve To loose. ex opere operato From the work worked; referring to sacraments deriving their power from Christ's work rather than the role of humans, and thus not requiring faith to be effective. exoptable Highly desirable. exoptation An earnest wishing or desire. exorable Capable of being moved or persuaded. exoration entreaty exorbitate To go off track or orbit; to deviate. exord A preface or prefatory passage. exornation ornament; decoration; embellishment (physically, or relating to prose) ex parte Of, relating to, or characteristic of a proceeding where one of the involved parties is not present. expatiate To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion. expectorate To cough up fluid from the lungs. expeditate To deprive of the claws or the balls of the forefeet. experient A person who experiences something. expiscate To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out or rummage (for information) explement The remainder of subtracting an angle from a full circle. expletion accomplishment; fulfillment explicandum That which is to be explained or explicated expolish To polish thoroughly. ex post facto Retroactive. exprobrate To reproach or upbraid exprobration Reproachful accusation; upbraiding. exprobratory Expressing, or relating to, exprobration. expugnable Able to be overcome, conquered or taken by storm. expugnation The act of taking by assault; conquest. expulsive Tending to expel or resulting in expulsion. expulsory Synonym of expulsive. expurgate To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.