☉excusation, n.f., (jur.) excusation, plea.
excuse, n.f., excuse, apology; (jur.) plea, excusation. Faire des —s; to apologize. Faites —! excuse me! I beg your pardon! Je vous fais —; I beg your pardon.
excuser, v.a., to excuse, to exculpate, to pardon; to bear with; to apologize for. Il l’a excusé auprès du roi; he has apologized for him to the king. On doit — les fautes de la jeunesse; one must bear with the errors of youth.
s’excuser, v.r., to excuse, to exculpate one’s self; to throw the blame on; to decline; to apologize, to make an apology. Le capitaine s’est excusé sur son lieutenant; the captain cast the blame upon his lieutenant. S’— de faire une chose; to decline doing a thing. Qui s’excuse, s’accuse; a guilty conscience needs no accuser.
exeat (èg-zé-at), n.m., exeat; pass, leave (to go out of one diocese into another). Donner à quelqu’un son —; to send off, to discard, to dismiss, any one. Donner un — à; to give any one leave to go out.
exécrable, adj., execrable, deplorable.
exécrablement, adv., execrably, deplorably.
exécration, n.f., execration. Il est en — à tout le monde; he is held in abhorrence by everybody.
exécratoire, adj., execratory.
exécrer, v.a., to execrate, to hold in execration or in detestation.