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Exclusion (?), n. [L. exclusio: cf. F. exclusion. See .] 1. The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.
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His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss. Milton.
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The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. Hume.
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2. (Physiol.) The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.
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3. Thing emitted. Sir T. Browne.
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Exclusionary (?), a. Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.
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Exclusionism (?), n. The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist.
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Exclusionist, n. One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles II.
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Exclusive (?) a. [Cf. F. exclusif.] 1. Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.
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2. Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.
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Exclusive, n. One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.
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Exclusiveness, n. Quality of being exclusive.
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Exclusivism (?), n. The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.
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Exclusivist, n. One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism.
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The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory. Gladstone.
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Exclusory (?), a. [L. exclusorius.] Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.
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Excoct (?) v. t. [L. excoctus, p. p. of excoquere to excoct. See 3d .] To boil out; to produce by boiling. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Excoction (?). [L. excoctio.] The act of excocting or boiling out. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Excogitate (?) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excogitated (#); p. pr. & vb. n.. Excogitating.] [L. excogitatus, p. p. of excogitare to excogitate; ex out + cogitare to think. See .] To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. “Excogitate strange arts.” Stirling.
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This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.
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Excogitate, v. i. To cogitate. [R.] Bacon.
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Excogitation (?), n. [L. excogitatio: cf. F. excogitation.] The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
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Excommune (?) v. t. [Cf. F. excommuier. See .] To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate. [Obs.]
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Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth Gayton.
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Excommunicable (?), a. [See .] Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper. “Persons excommunicable .” Bp. Hall.
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What offenses are excommunicable ? Kenle.
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Excommunicant (?), n. One who has been excommunicated.
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Excommunicate (?), a. [L. excommunicatus, p. p. of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See .] Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n. One excommunicated.
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Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. Shak.
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Excommunicate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excommunicated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating (?).] 1. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
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2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
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Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books. Miltin.
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Excommunication (?), n. [L. excommunicatio: cf. F. excommunication.] The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
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☞ excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater is an absolute execution of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages, even from social intercourse with the faithful.
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Excommunicator (?) n. [Cf. LL. excommunicator.] One who excommunicates.
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Excommunion (?). A shutting out from communion; excommunication. [Obs.]
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Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.
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Excoriable (?). Capable of being excoriated.
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The scaly covering of fishes, . . . even in such as are excoriatable. Sir T. Browne.
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Excoriate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excoriated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. excoriating (?).] [L. excoriare; ex out + corium hide. cf. ; see .] To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.
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Excoriation (?), n. [Cf. F. excoriation.] 1. The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
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2. Stripping of possession; spoliation. [Obs.]
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A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort. Howell.
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Excorticate (?), v. t. [L. ex out, from + cortex, corticis, bark.] To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate. [Obs.] “Excorticate the tree.” Evelyn.
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Excortication (?), n. [Cf. F. excortication.] The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.
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Excreable (?), a. [L. excreabilis, exscreabilis, fr. exscreare. See .] Capable of being discharged by spitting. [Obs.] Swift.
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Excreate (?), v. t. [L. excreare, exsreare; ex out + screare to hawk.] To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. [Obs.] Cockeram.
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Excreation (?), n. [L. excreatio, exscreatio.] Act of spitting out. [Obs.] Cockeram.
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Excrement (?), n. [L. excrementum, fr. excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. excrément. See .] Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
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Excrement, n. [L. excrementum, fr. excrescere, excretum, to grow out. See .] An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [Obs.] “Ornamental excrements.” Fuller.
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Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts. Bacon.
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Excremental (?), a. Of or pertaining to excrement.

{ Excrementitial (?), Excrementitious (?), } a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.
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Excrementive (?), a. Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. [R.] “The excrementive parts.” Felthman.
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Excrementize (?) v. i. To void excrement. [R.] Life of A. Wood �.
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Excrescence (?) n. [F. excrescence, excroissanse, L. excrescentia excrescences, neut. pl. of p. pr. of excrescere. See .] An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. “Excrescences of joy.” Jer. Taylor.
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The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy. Addison.
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Excrescency (?), n. Excrescence. [Obs.]
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Excrescent (?), a. [L. excresens, -entis, p. pr. of excrescere to grow out ; ex out + crescere to grow. See .] Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
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Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. Pope.
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Coloq. Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.
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Excrescential (?) a. Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.
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Excreta (?), n. pl. [L.] Matters to be excreted.
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Excrete (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excreting.] [L. excretus, p. p. of excernere to sift out, discharge; ex out + cernere to sift, separate. See .] To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. “The mucus thus excreted.” Hooper.
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Excretin (?), n. [From .] (physiol. Chem.) A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces.
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Excretion (?), n. [Cf. F. excrétion.] 1. The act of excreting.
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To promote secretion and excretion. Pereira.
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2. That which is excreted; excrement. Bacon.
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Excretive (?), a. Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. Harvey.
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Excretory (?), a. [Cf. F. excrétoire.] Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
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Excruciable (?), a. [L. excruciabilis.] Liable to torment. [R.] Bailey.
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Excruciate (?), a. [L. excruciatus, p. p. of excruciare to excruciate; ex out + cruciare to put to death on a cross, to torment. See , .] Excruciated; tortured.
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And here my heart long time excruciate. Chapman.
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Excruciate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excruciated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Excruciating (?).] To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.
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Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate. Drayton.
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Excruciating (?). Torturing; racking. “Excruciating pain.” V. Knox. “Excruciating fears.” Bentley -- Excruciatingly, adv.
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Excruciation (?) n. [L. excruciatio.] The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture. Feltham.
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Excubation (?) n. [L. excubatio, fr. excubare to lie out on guard; ex out on guard; ex out + cubare to lie down.] A keeping watch. [Obs.] Bailey.
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Excubitorium (?), n. [LL. excubitorium; ex out + cubare, cubitum, to lie.] (Eccl. Antiq.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.
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Exculpable (?). Capable of being exculpated; deserving exculpation. Sir G. Buck.
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Exculpate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exculpated (?), p. pr. & vb. n.. Exculpating (�).] [L. ex out + culpatus, p. p. of culpare to find fault with, to blame, culpa fault. See .] To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.
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He exculpated himself from being the author of the heroic epistle. Mason.
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I exculpate him further for his writing against me. Milman.

Syn. -- To exonerate; absolve; clear; acquit; excuse; vindicate; justify.
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exculpated adj. freed from any question of guilt; having suspicion of guilt eliminated.
Syn. -- absolved, cleared, exonerated, vindicated.
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Exculpation (?), n. [Cf. LL. exculpatio.] The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.
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These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves. Southey.
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Exculpatory (?). Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing. “An exculpatory letter.” Johnson.
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Excur (?) v. i. [L. excurrere. See .] To run out or forth; to extend. [Obs.] Harvey.
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Excurrent (?), a. [L. excurrens, p. p. of excurrere, excursum, to run out; ex out + currere to run. See .] 1. Running or flowing out; as: (Bot.) Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top.
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2. (Zoöl) Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube.
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Excurse (?), v. t. [See .] To journey or pass thought. [R.]
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Excursion (?). [L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See .] 1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
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Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. Milton.
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They would make excursions and waste the country. Holland.
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2. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.
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3. A wandering from a subject; digression.
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I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions. Cowper.
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4. (Mach.) Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]

Syn. -- Journey; tour; ramble; jaunt. See .
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Excursionist, n. One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.
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Excursive (?), a. Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.
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The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor.

-- Excursively, adv. -- Excursiveness, , n.
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Excursus (?), n. [L., fr. excurrere, excursum. See .] A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.
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Excusable (?) a. [L. excusabilis: cf. F. excusable. See .] That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action. -- Excusableness, n. -- Excusably, adv.
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The excusableness of my dissatisfaction. Boyle.
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Excusation (?), n. [L. excusatio: cf. F. excusation.] Excuse; apology. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Excusator (?), n. [L.] One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist. [Obs.] Hume.
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Excusatory (?), a. Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.
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Excuse (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Excusing.] [OE. escusen, cusen, OF. escuser, excuser, F. excuser, fr. L. excusare; ex out + causa cause, causari to plead. See .] 1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.
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A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practicing it, if really and indeed it be against Gog's law. Abp. Sharp.
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2. To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.
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I must excuse what can not be amended. Shak.
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3. To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.
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And in our own (excuse some courtly stains.)
No whiter page than Addison remains. Pope.
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4. To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.
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I pray thee have me excused. xiv. 19.
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5. To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
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Think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? 2 Cor. xii. 19.

Syn. -- To vindicate; exculpate; absolve; acquit. - , , . A superior pardons as an act of mercy or generosity; either a superior or an equal excuses. A crime, great fault, or a grave offence, as one against law or morals, may be pardoned; a small fault, such as a failure in social or conventional obligations, slight omissions or neglects may be excused. Forgive relates to offenses against one's self, and punishment foregone; as, to forgive injuries or one who has injured us; to pardon grave offenses, crimes, and criminals; to excuse an act of forgetfulness, an unintentional offense. Pardon is also a word of courtesy employed in the sense of excuse.
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