3. To seize and detain by law, as goods. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
EXCUSSION Ex*cus"sion, n. Etym: [L. excussio a shaking down; LL., a threshing of corn: cf. F. excussion.]
Defn: The act of excusing; seizure by law. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
EXEAT
Ex"e*at, n. Etym: [L., let him go forth.]
1. A license for absence from a college or a religious house. [Eng.] Shipley.
2. A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese. Wharton.
EXECRABLE Ex"e*cra*ble, a. Etym: [L. execrabilis, exsecrabilis: cf. F. exécrable. See Execrate.]
Defn: Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable;
abominable; as, an execrable wretch. "Execrable pride." Hooker.
— Ex"e*cra*ble*ness, n.
— Ex"e*cra*bly, adv.
EXECRATE
Ex"e*crate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Execrated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Execrating.] Etym: [L. execratus, exsecratus, p. p. of execrare,
exsecrare, to execrate; ex out + sacer holy, sacred. See Sacred.]
Defn: To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. "They . . . execrate their lct." Cowper.