Word origins

• excussTo shake off.
• excussionThe process or proceedings whereby a creditor must proceed against a principal debtor before proceeding against a surety or subsidiary debtor.
• ex delictoOf a legal obligation: arising from a delict or tort, or some other wrongful act.
• exeatA license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
• execrateTo feel loathing for; to abhor.
• executorialOf or relating to an executive (branch of government etc.).
• exedentconsuming; that eats away
• exemeTo release; to exempt.
• exemplativeServing as or providing a typical example.
• exemplificateTo exemplify.
• exemplificatorSomething serving as an example.
• exempli gratiaFor the sake of an example.
• exemplumAn example.
• exenterateTo disembowel; to eviscerate.
• exenterationThe surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.
• exequaturAn official authorization given by a government to a consul etc.
• exequialOf or pertaining to funerals; funereal.
• exercentCurrently working; practising; professional
• exesionThe act of eating, or corroding, out or through.
• exestuateTo be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
• exestuationA boiling up or effervescence.
• exeunt omnesIn plays, an instruction that all actors should leave the stage.
• ex facieFrom the face or appearance.
• ex gratiaGiven as a favour; given as a gift.
• exheredateTo disinherit.
• exheredationA disinheriting; disherison.
• exhereditationA disinheriting; disherison.
• exhibitoryexhibiting; publicly showing
• exhilarantCausing exhilaration or pleasure.
• exhilarateTo cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy, to elate.
• exiguousScanty; meager.
• exilitionThe act of suddenly jumping up or out.
• exilityThinness, smallness; a shrunken or meagre condition.
• eximiousPre-eminent, outstanding.
• exinaniteTo make (something) weak and ineffective; to enervate.
• exinanitionAn emptying; an evacuation; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.
• existimationOpinion, esteem or judgment.
• exitialdestructive; fatal
• exitiousHarmful, destructive, deadly, pernicious.
• exitusdeath
• exlexAn outlaw.
• ex librisA bookplate that identifies the owner of the book into which it is pasted.
• ex negativoFrom the negative.
• exnihilationThe act of bringing into existence from nothing.
• ex nihiloOut of nothing.
• ex nihilo nihil fitNothing comes from nothing; out of nothing, nothing is produced.
• 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.
• exoculateTo deprive of eyes; blind.
• exodedeparture; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
• exodiumSynonym of exode (“a comic performance after a tragedy”).
• ex officioBy virtue of the office that originated it, or of the title held.
• exoleteThat has gone out of use; disused, obsolete.
• exolutiona setting free of the spirit.
• exolveTo loose.
• Exon DomesdayThe initial detailed summary of the Domesday survey returns from the Domesday circuit of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, which was used to compile the parts of the Great Domesday Book relating to those counties.
• exoneratorOne who exonerates.
• ex opere operatoFrom 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.
• exoptableHighly desirable.
• exoptationAn earnest wishing or desire.
• exorableCapable of being moved or persuaded.
• exorationentreaty
• exorbitateTo go off track or orbit; to deviate.
• exorbitationThe act of leaving the usual path or course; deviation.
• exordA preface or prefatory passage.
• exordialof or relating to an exordium, beginning or introduction
• exornateTo embellish, adorn, decorate.
• exornationornament; decoration; embellishment (physically, or relating to prose)
• ex parteOf, relating to, or characteristic of a proceeding where one of the involved parties is not present.
• expatiateTo write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion.
• expectorateTo cough up fluid from the lungs.
• ex pede HerculemA maxim of proportionality: one can extrapolate the size of a thing from the size of a part.
• expeditateTo deprive of the claws or the balls of the forefeet.
• expergefactionAn awakening.
• experience is the best teacherLessons learned from experience are the most lasting.
• experientA person who experiences something.
• expiatorOne who makes expiation or atonement.
• expilatorOne who plunders or pillages.
• expiscateTo fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out or rummage (for information)
• explanandumThat which is to be explained (cf. explanans).
• explanansA collection of propositions that, taken together, explain another proposition (the explanandum).
• explanateFlat; flattened.
• explanatorOne who explains.
• explementThe remainder of subtracting an angle from a full circle.
• expleteComplete, perfect
• expletionaccomplishment; fulfillment
• explicandumThat which is to be explained or explicated
• explicansThe underlying meaning of an explicandum.
• expolishTo polish thoroughly.
• ex postactual
• ex post factoRetroactive.
• expressis verbisExpressly; explicitly.
• exprobrateTo reproach or upbraid
• exprobrationReproachful accusation; upbraiding.
• exprobratoryExpressing, or relating to, exprobration.
• ex professoProfessedly; by profession.
• ex proprio motuOf one's own accord.
• ex proprio vigoreof its own force or volition
• expugnableAble to be overcome, conquered or taken by storm.
• expugnationThe act of taking by assault; conquest.
• expulseTo expel, usually by means of violence.