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 Explorateur: m. An explorator, espiall, scowt, priuie searcher.

Exploration: f. An exploration, search, or tryall by search.

Exploré: m. ée: f. Searched, or proued by search; looked farre into.

Explorer. To explore, spie, search or looke farre, into; to proue, or trie, by searching.

Expoliateur: m. A spoyler, robber, bereauer, or depriuer.

Expolié: m ée: f. Dispoyled, robbed, bereaued, or depriued of.

Expolier. To spoyle, dispoyle, rob, depriue, bereaue, of.

Expoly: m. ye: f. Polished, smoothed, sleeked, burnished; cleanlie, neat, fine, trimme, polite.

Exponce. as Esponce. A lawful quitting, leauing, or forsaking of the possession of land, &c.

Exponction. as Exponce. Exposé: m. ée: f. Exposed, set out, put or layed open to; a faire marke for; also, expounded, interpreted, explained.  Enfant exposé. An outcast, or vnknowne child, that hath beene left in the fields, or at some doore.

Exposer. To expose, lay out, put or set open to; also, to expound, interpret, explaine.

Exposeur: m. An exposer; an expounder, interpreter, explainer.

Exposition: f. An exposition, interpretation, explanation.

Expres: m. esse: f. Expresse, speciall; of purpose; direct; manifest.  Par expres; & tout expres. Expresly, specially, purposely; namely, chiefely; directly; seriously.

Expressement. as Par expres. Expression: f. An expression; pressing, straining, wringing, thrusting, squeezing hard together.  Les expressions. A great motion and desire, but little or no power, to purge downewards.

Exprimé: m. ée: f. Expressed, shewed, declared, vttered, pronounced, signified; expounded, or translated.  Estoit il assez exprimé de paroles? ''Could more haue beene said to that purpose? were there not words ynow spent in the matter?''

Exprimer. To expresse, declare, shew, signifie; vtter, pronounce; also, to expound, or translate.

Exprobation: f. An exprobation; vpbraiding, reproaching, twitting in the teeth; laying in the dish of.

Exproprié: m. ée: f. Expropriated; put from the proprietie of, depriued of all proprietie in.

Expugnable: com. Expugnable, pregnable, which may be forced, or won by force.

Expugnateur: m. An expugner, forcer, subduer, ouerthrower of townes, &c.

Expugnation: f. An expugnation, forcing, subduing, ouerthrowing of townes by violence.

Expugné: m. ée: f. Expugned, forced, won by assault, ouercome with violence.

Expugner. To expugne; force, breake open, or into by violence; win by assault; vanquish, conquer, ouercome.

Expulsé: m. ée: f. Expulsed, expelled; thrust, or chaced out, by force.

Expulser. To expulse, expell; driue, chace, or thrust out.

Expulseur: m. An expulser, an expeller.

Expulsion. An expulsion, or expelling; a forcible putting, or driuing forth.

Exquis: m. ise: f. Exquisite, exact, excellent, perfect; curious, daintie, choice, picked. Exquisement. Exquisitely, exactly, excellently, perfectly, throughly; choicely; daintily, curiously.

Exsiccatif: m. iue: f. Exsiccatiue; of a drying propertie.

Exsiccation: f. A drinesse, or drying vp of.

Extase: f. An extasie; or trance; a rauishment, or transportation of the spirit, by passion; &c.

Extatique: com. In a trance, in a swoone, in an extasie; in an extreame passion.

Extenseur: m. An extender, drawer, stretcher out at length.

Extensible. Extensible; which may be extended, or drawne out in length.

Extension. An extension, or extending; a wresting, wire-drawing, drawing, or stretching out; also, a kind of crampe; (extension des nerfs.)  Extension de la loy. A wresting, strayning, large exposition, or far-fetcht interpretation, of the Law.  Les trois extensions. The three measures; length, breadth, and depth.

Extention. as Extension. Extenuation: f. An extenuation, or extenuating; a lessening, impairing, diminution.

Extenué: m. ée: f. Extenuated; made slender, or thin; lessened, impaired, much wasted, or decayed; fallen away, growne leane, pulled downe; looking verie thin on it.

Extenuer. To extenuate; make slender, or thin; to lessen, diminish, impaire; wast or decay much; pull down, make leane.

Exterieur: m. eure: f. Exterior, outward.

Exterieureté: f. Exterioritie, outwardnesse; the superficies, outside, or vpper part.

Exteriorité: f. as Exterieureté. Exterminant. Exterminating.

Exterminateur: m. An exterminator, banisher; destroyer.

Extermination: f. An extermination, or exterminating; a casting, or driuing forth; a ruining, or destroying (thereby.)

Exterminé: m. ée: f. Exterminated; driuen forth, cast out, chaced away; &, ruined, vndone, destroyed (therby.)

Exterminer. To exterminate, cast out, chace forth, driue away; to ruine, vndoe, destroy (by banishment.)

Extinction: f. An extinction, extinguishment, extinguishing; an vtter stinting, or putting out; an abolishing.

Extipiscine: f. Diuination, or southsaying by th' inspection of the intralls of beasts: ¶Rab. Extirpation: f. An extirpation, rooting out, or plucking vp by the roots.

Extirpé: m. ée: f. Extirpated, rooted out.

Extirper. To extirpate; root out, or plucke vp by the root.

Extiture: f. An apparance, a shew, or standing forth.

Extorqué: m. ée: f. Extorted; wrested from.

Extorquer. To extort, exact, wrest from by force, take away by violence.

Extorqueur: m. An extorter, exacter, violent dealer.

Extorsion: f. Extortion, exaction; a violent wringing, or wresting of things from others.

Extraction: f. An extraction, issue, deriuall, originall, drawing from.  De noble extraction. Verie well discended, or bred; come of a noble stocke, a great house, a worthie straine.

Extraict: m. cte: f. Extracted, drawne, deriued, issuing or comming from; also, taken from by force.

Extraict: m. An extract, breuiate, abridgement,