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Experimentative (?), a. Experimental; of the nature of experiment. [R.]
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Experimentator (?), n. [LL.] An experimenter. [R.]
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Experimenter (?), n. One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.
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Experimentist (?), n. An experimenter.
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Experrection (?), n. [L. expergisci, p. p. experrectus, to rouse up; ex out + pergere to wake up.] A waking up or arousing. [Obs.] Holland
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Expert (ĕkspẽrt), a. [F. expert, L. expertus, p. p. of experiri to try. See .] Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.
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A valiant and most expert gentleman. Shak.
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What practice, howsoe'er expert
In fitting aptest words to things . . .
Hath power to give thee as thou wert? Tennyson.

Syn. -- Adroit; dexterous; clever; ready; prompt.
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Expert (?), n. 1. An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.
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2. (Law) (a) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.
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☞ Such specialists may be witnesses in matters as to which ordinary observers could not without such aid form just conclusions, and are liable for negligence in case they injure another from want of proper qualifications or proper care in the exercise of their specialty.

(b) A sworn appraiser.
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Expert (?), v. t. To experience. [Obs.]
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Die would we daily, once it to expert. Spencer.
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Expertly, adv. In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.
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Expertness, n. Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.

Syn. -- Facility; readiness; dexterity; adroitness; skill. See .
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Expetible (?), a. [L., expetibilis, fr. expetere to wish for; ex out + petere to seek.] Worthy of being wished for; desirable. [Obs.] Puller.
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Expiable (?), a. [See .] Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt. Bp. Hall.
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Expiate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expiated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expiating(?).] [L. expiatus, p. p. of expiare to expiate; ex out + piare to seek to appease, to purify with sacred rites, fr. pius pious. See .] 1. To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.
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To expiate his treason, hath naught left. Milton.
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The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury. Clarendon.
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2. To purify with sacred rites. [Obs.]
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Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire. Deut. xviii. 10 (Douay version)
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Expiate (?), a. [L. expiatus,p. p] Terminated. [Obs.] Shak.
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Expiation (?), n. [L. expiatio: cf.F. expiation] 1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.
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His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving.
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2. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.
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Those shadowy expiations weak,
The blood of bulls and goats. Milton.
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3. An act by which the threats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.
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Expiatist (?), n. An expiator. [R.]
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Expiator (?), n. [L.] One who makes expiation or atonement.
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Expiatorious (?), a. Of an expiatory nature; expiatory. Jer. Taylor.
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Expiatory (?), a. [L. expiatorius: cf. F. expiatoire.] Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.
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Expilation (?), n. [L. expiatio.] The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage. [Obs.]
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This ravenous expilation of the state. Daniel.
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Expilator (?), n. [L.] One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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Expirable (?), a. That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.
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Expirant (?), n. One who expires or is expiring.
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Expiration (?), n. [L. expiratio,exspiratio: cf. F. expiration. See .] 1. The act of expiring; as: (a)(Physiol.) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration. (b) Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
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The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth. Bacon.

(c) The last emission of breath; death. “The groan of expiration.” Rambler.

(d) A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.
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Before the expiration of thy time. Shak.
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2. That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
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The aspirate “he,” which is . . . a gentle expiration. G. Sharp.
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expiration-dated adj. bearing a date after which it is no longer valid or salable; -- of a security, option, or perishable item. [British]
Syn. -- expiring, dated.
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Expiratory (?), a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.
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Expire (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expired (?); p. pr & vb. n. Expiring.] [L. expirare, exspirare, expiratum, exspiratum; ex out + spirare to breathe: cf. F. expirer. See .] 1. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
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Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey.
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This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. Dryden.
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2. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.
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The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. Bacon.
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3. To emit; to give out. [Obs.] Dryden.
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4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.]
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Expire the term
Of a despised life. Shak.
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Expire, v. i. 1. To emit the breath.
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2. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.
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3. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.
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4. To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [Obs.] “The ponderous ball expires.” Dryden.
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expired adj. having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; as, an expired passport; caught driving with an expired license. Opposite of unexpired.
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Expiring (?), a. 1. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
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2. Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.
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Expiry (?), n. Expiration.
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He had to leave at the expiry of the term. Lamb.
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The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term. J. Morley.
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Expiscate (?), v. t. [L. expiscatus, p. p. of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish.] To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. “To expiscate principles.” [R.] Nichol.
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Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander.
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Expiscation (?), n. The act of expiscating; a fishing. [R.] Chapman.
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Expiscatory (?), a. Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.
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Explain (ĕksplān), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explained(ĕksplānd); p. pr. & vb. n. Explaining.] [L. explandare to flatten, spread out, explain; ex out + plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, explaner. See ,a., and cf. .] 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.]
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The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn.
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2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.
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Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you. Gay.
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Coloq. To explain away , to get rid of by explanation. “Those explain the meaning quite away.” Pope.

Syn. -- To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.
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Explain, v. i. To give an explanation.
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Explainable (?), a. [L. explainabilis.] Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted. Sir. T. Browne.
Syn. -- explicable. [ Webster]

Explainer (?), n. One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
Syn. -- explicator. [ Webster]

Explanate, a. [L. explanatus, p. p. of explanare. See .] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.
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Explanation (?), n. [L. explanatio: cf. OF. esplanation.] 1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.
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2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.
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3. The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense.
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Different explanations [of the Trinity]. Bp. Burnet.
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4. A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.

Syn. -- Definition; description; explication; exposition; interpretation; detail. See .
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Explanative (?), a. Explanatory.
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Explanatoriness (?), n. The quality of being explanatory.
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Explanatory (?), a. [L. explanatorius.] Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. Swift.

{ Explat (?), Explate (?), } v. t. [Pref. ex- + plat or plait.] To explain; to unfold. [Obs.]
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Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws. B. Jonson.
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Expletion (?), n. [L. expletio a satisfying. See .] Accomplishment; fulfillment. [Obs.] Killingbeck.
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Expletive (?), a. [L. expletivus, from expletus, p. p. of explere to fill up; ex out+plere to fill, akin to plenus full: cf. F. explétif. See .] Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. “Expletive imagery.” Hallam.
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Expletive phrases to plump his speech. Barrow.
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Expletive, n. A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.
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While explectives their feeble aid to join,
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. Pope.
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Expletively, adv. In the manner of an expletive.
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Expletory (?), a. Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. Bp. Burnet.
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Explicable (?), a. [L. explicabilis: cf. F. explicable.] Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.
Syn. -- explainable. [ Webster]

It is not explicable upon any grounds. Burke.
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Explicableness, n. Quality of being explicable.
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Explicate (?), a. [L. explicatus, p. p. of explicare.] Evolved; unfolded. Jer. Taylor.
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Explicate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explicated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Explicating(?).] 1. To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] “They explicate the leaves.” Blackmore.
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2. To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.
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The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated. Dryden.
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Explication (?), n. [L. explicatio: cf. F. explication.] 1. The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
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The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury.
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2. The sense given by an expositor. Bp. Burnet.
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Explicative (?), a. [Cf. F. explicatif.] Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory. Sir W. Hamilton.
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Explicator (?), n. [L.] One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.
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Explicatory (?), a. Explicative. Barrow.
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Explicit (?). [LL., an abbreviation of explicitus (est liber) the book (which anciently was a roll of parchment) is unfolded (and, of course, “finished”). See , a.] A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.
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Explicit (?), a. [L. explicitus; p. p. of explicare to unfold: cf. F. explicite. See , .] 1. Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration. Opposite of implicit.
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The language of the charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt. Bancroft.
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2. Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement.
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Coloq. Explicit function . (Math.) See under .

Syn. -- Express; clear; plain; open; unreserved; unambiguous. -- , . Explicit denotes a setting forth in the plainest language, so that the meaning can not be misunderstood; as, an explicit promise. Express is stronger than explicit: it adds force to clearness. An express promise or engagement is not only unambiguous, but stands out in bold relief, with the most binding hold on the conscience. An explicit statement; a clear and explicit notion; explicit direction; no words can be more explicit. An explicit command; an express prohibition. “An express declaration goes forcibly and directly to the point. An explicit declaration leaves nothing ambiguous.” C. J. Smith.
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Explicitly (?), adv. In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.
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Explicitness, n. The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness. Jer. Taylor.
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Explode (ĕksplōd), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Exploded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exploding.] [L. explodere, explosum, to drive out, drive out a player by clapping; ex out + plaudere, plodere, to clap, strike, applaud: cf. OF. exploder. See .] 1. To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as, gunpowder explodes.
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2. To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.
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3. To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.
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Explode, v. t. 1. To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play. [Obs.]
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Him old and young
Exploded, and seized with violent hands. Milton.
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2. To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine.
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Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. Burke.
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To explode and exterminate dark atheism. Bently.
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3. To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
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4. To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
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But late the kindled powder did explode
The massy ball and the brass tube unload. Blackmore.
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Explodent (?), n. 1. An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.
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2. See , n., 2.
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Exploder (?), n. 1. One who or that which explodes.
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2. One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt. South.
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Exploit (?), n. [OE. esploit success, OF. esploit, espleit,revenue, product, vigor, force, exploit, F. exploit exploit, fr. L. explicitum, prop. p. p. neut. of explicare to unfold, display, exhibit; ex + plicare to fold. See , and cf. , .] 1. A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.
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Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. Shak.
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2. Combat; war. [Obs.]
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He made haste to exploit some warlike service. Holland.
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2. [F. exploiter.] To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion. [Recent]
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