Defn: To blind. [Obs.] Cockeram.
EXCECATION
Ex`ce*ca"tion, n.
Defn: The act of making blind. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.
EXCEDENT
Ex*ced"ent, n. Etym: [L. excedens, -entis, p. pr. of excedere. See
Exceed, v. t.]
Defn: Excess. [R.]
EXCEED
Ex*ceed", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exceeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exceeding.]
Etym: [L. excedere, excessum, to go away or beyond; ex out + cedere
to go, to pass: cf. F. excéder. See Cede.]
Defn: To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; — used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc. ; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours. Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days. Shak. Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Pope.
Syn.
— To outdo; surpass; excel; transcend; outstrip; outvie; overtop.
EXCEED
Ex*ceed", v. i.
1. To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure. "In our reverence to whom, we can not possibly exceed." Jer. Taylor. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed. Deut. xxv. 3.