Defn: A disinheriting; disherisor. [R.]
EXHEREDITATION Ex`he*red`i*ta"tion, n. Etym: [LL. exhereditare, exhereditatum, disinherit.]
Defn: A disinheriting; disherison. [R.] E. Waterhouse.
EXHIBIT
Ex*hib"it, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhibited; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exhibiting.] Etym: [L. exhibitus, p. p. of exhibere to hold forth, to
tender, exhibit; ex out + habere to have or hold. See Habit.]
1. To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery. Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope.
2. (Law)
Defn: To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge. He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl. Clarendon.
3. (Med.)
Defn: To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel. To exhibit a
foundation or prize, to hold it forth or to tender it as a bounty to
candidates.
— To exibit an essay, to declaim or otherwise present it in public.
[Obs.]
EXHIBIT
Ex*hib"it, n.