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 highest degree, passing well, most worthily.

Excellence: f. Excellencie, exceeding worth, prime worthinesse, principall goodnesse.

Excellent. Excellent; excelling in worth, exceeding in goodnesse, passing in value, surpassing in worthinesse.

Exceller. To excell; to surmount in worth, exced in worthinesse, passe in value, surpasse in goodnesse, all others.

Excentriqué: m. ée: f. Disclosed, laied open, brought forth, drawne out of.

Excentriquer. To disclose, lay open, bring forth, draw out of.

Excepté: m. ée: f. Excepted, reserued, foreprised; restrained, limited; seperated from; also, besides, or, ouer and besides.

Excepter. To except, foreprize, reserue, take out of; restraine, limit; seperate, or diuide from.

Exception: f. An exception, reseruation, foreprisall, restraint, or clause that restraineth a generaltie; also (in Law) a stop, or stay vnto an Action; a Barre pleaded, or put in, by a defendant.

Excessif: m. iue: f. Excessiue, exceeding, vnmeasurable, immoderate, extreame; riotous, lauish, outlashing.

Excessivement Excessiuely, immoderately, extreamely, too much, aboue measure.

Excessiveté: f. Excessiuenesse; extremitie, immoderatenesse, vnmeasurablenesse.

Excez: m. Superfluitie, excesse, outlashing, intemperancie, riot, lauishing.  Excez de main non garnie. A thump, or blow giuen by a weaponlesse hand.

Exciper. as Excepter; Or, to put in an exception, or clause of assurance; to giue, or take securitie, or warrantise; to take bond, or be bound, for.

Excision: f. A wasting, destroying, razing, breaking downe.

Excitatif: m. iue: f. Exciting; rowsing, raising vp.

Excitation. An excitation, exciting, awaking; a rowsing, raising, or stirring vp.

Excité: m. ée: f. Excited, raised, rowsed, stirred vp.

Exciter. To excite, incite, stirre vp, raise, rowse; incourage vnto.

Exclamation: f. An exclamation, an outcrie, or crying out.

Exclamé. Exclaimed.

Exclamer. To exclaime, crie vnto, make an outcrie, to call alowd.

Excluant. Excluding, shutting out; reiecting.

Exclure. To exclude, shut out; reiect, refuse.

Exclus: m. use: f. Excluded, put or shut out.

Excluse. A sluce, or pond head.

Exclusivement. Exclusiuely; debarring, or out-shutting, all others; also, outwardly, or, out of the compasse of; also, definitiuely, or without hope of appeale.  Exclusivement à tous autres. Absolutely his owne; wherein none else haue, or are to haue, ought to doe.

Excogité: m. ée: f. Excogitated; seriously thought, earnestly considered of; inuented, or found out by an earnest thinking; exactly, or studiously deuised.

Excogiter. To excogitate; seriously to thinke, earnestly to consider, intentiuely to studie of; also, to inuent by serious thinking, deuise after an exact consideration, find out with earnest studie.

Excolé: m. ée: f. Garnished, decked, furnished, trimmed vp.

Excommange. An Excommunication.

Excommunié: m. ée: f. Excommunicated.

Excommuniement: m. as Excommange; Or, an excommunicating.

Excommunier. To excommunicate.

Excoriation. An excoriation, a flaying; or fretting the skinne off.

Excorié: m. ée: f. Excoriated, flayed; fretted, as the skinne.

Excorier. To excoriate, flay; plucke, strip, or fret the skin off.

Excortiquer. as Escorcer; To flay, pill, or pull off the rind from.

Excremens: m. Excrements; or, the purging of any part of the bodie; (hence) also, dregs, ordure, filth, or filthie euacuations.

Excrementeux: m. euse: f. Dreggie, filthie, full of excrements.

Excrescence. An excrescence; a superfluous, or vnnaturall growing out of a thing, as of a wart, wen, &c.

Excretion: f. The purging, or voiding of the superfluities, and excrements of the bodie.

Excroissance: f. An excrescence; a swelling, or shooting out beyond the parts about it; as in a bunch, knob, hulch, wheale, &c.

Excrucié: m. ée: f. Excruciated; tormented; extreamly vexed, or afflicted.

Excrucier. To excruciate; torment, vex, grieue, afflict extreamely.

Excusable: com. Excusable; that may be excused, thats worthie of excuse.

Excusation: f. An excusing, or excuse-making; some satisfaction giuen, or iustification alledged.

Excuse: f. An excuse; a colourable or tollerable answer, shift, helpe, auoidance, purgation, or satisfaction; and, in Law, an Essoine.  Elle a perdu son excuse. Said of a wanton widow, which gotten with child now wants a husband to father it on; or awed by that want, is afraid to eat her fill of the dish that she most affects.

Excusé: m. ée: f. Excused; essoined; tollerably answered, indifferently cleered, prettily well auoided.

Excuser. To excuse; colour; essoine; to answer tollerably, auoid prettily, shift off indifferently well, an obiection, charge, or imputation.  Ie ne me puis excuser de la mort, si. I cannot escape death, if.  Tel s'excuse qui s'accuse: Prov. Some when they meane to excuse, accuse, themselues.

Excuseur: m. An excuser, an essoiner.

Execrable: com. Execrable, accursed, abhominable, detestable.

Execration: f. An execration, cursing, horrible banning, or blasphemie, a wishing at the diuell.

Exercé. as Execrable; Also, execrated, cursed, banned, abhorred.

Execrer. To execrate, curse, banne, abhorre, detest, wish at the diuell.

Executé: m. ée: f. Executed, acted, accomplished; put to death; distrained, or seised for a debt, &c.

Executer. To execute, performe, effect, act, accomplish, finish; to execute, or put to death; to distraine; seize, or leuie, for debt, &c.  Le mort execute le vif. The heire, &c, of a creditor may put an Obligor in execution; but not his heire; for all personall Executions end with the Obligor.

Executeur. An Executor, effecter, performer, accomplisher of what he hath in charge; also, the Executor of a Testament; also, an Executioner, or Hangman. Sergent executeur. That distraines, or seizes a debtors goods, &c, in the behalfe of the creditor.