<B>exist, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to have being; be. <BR> <I>Ex. The world has existed a long time. It might be necessary to assert that mind exists, but that it is nowhere in space, and perhaps does not exist in time either (R. Hadekel).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to be real. <BR> <I>Ex. Do fairies exist or not?</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to continue to be; have life; live. <BR> <I>Ex. We cannot exist without air.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to be found; occur. <BR> <I>Ex. Cases exist of persons who cannot smell anything.</I> noun <B>exister.</B> </DL>
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<B>existence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the fact or state of existing; being. <BR> <I>Ex. When we are born, we come into existence.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact or state of being real. <BR> <I>Ex. Most people do not now believe in the existence of ghosts.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>continued being; living; life. <BR> <I>Ex. Drivers of racing cars lead a dangerous existence.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>occurrence; presence. <BR> <I>Ex. The newspapers report the existence of many new cases of flu in the city.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>all that exists. <DD><B> 6. </B>a thing that exists; a being. </DL>
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<B>existent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that exists; existing. <DD><B> 2. </B>now existing; of the present time. (SYN) current. </DL>
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<B>existential, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with existentialism. <BR> <I>Ex. an existential novel, an existential point of view.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with existence. </DL>
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<B>existentialism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a philosophy holding that reality consists of living and that man makes himself what he is and is responsible personally only to himself for what he makes himself. Modern existentialism was developed by a group of contemporary writers, such as Gabriel Marcel, Karl Jaspers, and especially Jean Paul Sartre, out of the works of Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and other existentialist philosophers and writers of the 1800's. <BR> <I>Ex. Existentialism, as expounded by Sartre, is not pessimistic in the nihilist sense, but is a doctrine of fortitude and even hope (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>existentialist, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>having to do with existentialism. <BR> <I>Ex. His somber estimate of the human condition has led him not to existentialist nausea but to melancholy compassion (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>like existentialism. <DD><I>noun </I> a person who believes in the philosophy of existentialism. <BR> <I>Ex. To the existentialists' obsession with man's degradation Malraux again proposes man's essential greatness (Time).</I> </DL>
<B>existentially, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an existential manner. </DL>
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<B>exit, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a way out. <BR> <I>Ex. The theater had six exits.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of going out; departure. <BR> <I>Ex. When the cat came in, the mouse made a hasty exit.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the opportunity to go out. <DD><B> 4. </B>the act of leaving the stage. <BR> <I>Ex. The actor made a graceful exit.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) death. <BR> <I>Ex. Wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called upon to make our exit, we will die free men (Josiah Quincy).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to go out; leave. <BR> <I>Ex. He exited in a hurry.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Latin.) goes out; leaves; departs (a stage direction for an actor to leave the stage). <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to die. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Informal.) to leave; depart. <BR> <I>Ex. He exits the stage dripping with perspiration (Show).</I> </DL>
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<B>exite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Zoology.) each of the processes on the outer side of the limb of a phyllopod crustacean. </DL>
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<B>exit poll,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a poll taken of voters as they leave the voting place. <BR> <I>Ex. Some of the networks' "exit-polls" on primary days showed that Democrats favored Kennedy on the questions of who would handle the economy better (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>exitus, </B>noun, pl. <B>exitus.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>death, especially as the outcome of a disease. <BR> <I>Ex. The thick tenacious material in the lumina of bronchi ... is the main cause of exitus (Morris Fishbein).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Law.) issue; offspring. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) a going out; departure. <BR> <I>Ex. The period between the flood and the exitus of the people out of Egypt was about 800 years (Mathew Hale).</I> </DL>
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<B>exitus acta probat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) the outcome justifies the acts (George Washington's motto). </DL>
<A NAME="exlege">
<B>ex lege,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) from the law; arising from the law. </DL>
<A NAME="exlex">
<B>exlex, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) beyond the law; outside the law. </DL>
<A NAME="exlib">
<B>ex lib.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> ex libris. </DL>
<A NAME="exlibris">
<B>ex libris,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Latin.) from the library (of). <DD><B> 2. </B>an inscription or device in or on a book to indicate the owner; bookplate. </DL>
<A NAME="exlibrism">
<B>ex-librism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the collecting of bookplates. </DL>
<A NAME="exlibrist">
<B>ex-librist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who collects specimens of bookplates. </DL>
<A NAME="exmeromotu">
<B>ex mero motu,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) of his (her, its) own accord; by mere impulse. </DL>
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<B>Exmoor, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or designating any one of certain breeds of ponies and sheep native to the region of Exmoor, in southwestern England. </DL>
<A NAME="exmore">
<B>ex more,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) according to custom; from custom. </DL>
<A NAME="exnecessitaterei">
<B>ex necessitate rei,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) from the necessity of the case. </DL>
<A NAME="exnihilo">
<B>ex nihilo,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) from or out of nothing. <BR> <I>Ex. It is impossible to create ex nihilo a union of this kind (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> </DL>
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<B>ex nihilo nihil fit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) <DD><B> 1. </B>you cannot make something out of nothing. <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) from nothing, nothing is made. </DL>
<B>exoatmosphere, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the outermost region of the earth's atmosphere; exosphere. <BR> <I>Ex. The larger Spartan's [an antiballistic missile] job would be to provide an "area defence" by engaging enemy warheads in the exoatmosphere--roughly 300,000 ft. up (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
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<B>exoatmospheric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of the exoatmosphere; designed for the exoatmosphere. <BR> <I>Ex. Some experts say the ... missile defense system is based upon what is called an "exoatmospheric" rocket, or a defensive missile designed to intercept incoming missiles above the atmosphere (Hanson W. Baldwin).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="exobiological">
<B>exobiological, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with exobiology. </DL>
<A NAME="exobiologist">
<B>exobiologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who studies exobiology. </DL>
<A NAME="exobiology">
<B>exobiology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of life on other planets or celestial bodies. </DL>
<A NAME="exobiota">
<B>exobiota, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> animal and plant life outside of or originating away from the earth and its atmosphere; extraterrestrial life. <BR> <I>Ex. Such exobiota might do better on earth than native living creatures do (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="exobotany">
<B>exobotany, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of possible plant life, in living or fossil form, outside the earth. </DL>
<A NAME="exocannibalism">
<B>exocannibalism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the custom of eating the flesh of persons belonging to another tribe. </DL>
<A NAME="exocardia">
<B>exocardia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> displacement of the heart. </DL>
<A NAME="exocarp">
<B>exocarp, </B>noun. <B>=epicarp.</B></DL>
<A NAME="exoccipital">
<B>exoccipital, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> outside the occipital bone. <DD><I>noun </I> those parts of the occipital bone which form the sides of the foramen magnum and support the condyles. </DL>
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<B>exocentric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not belonging to the same form class as one of the immediate constituents of a grammatical construction. (Example:) The phrase <I>in the house</I> is an exocentric construction, since it does not belong to (i.e., it does not function the same way as) any of the form classes to which its immediate constituents belong. </DL>
<A NAME="exochorion">
<B>exochorion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the outer layer of the membrane that encloses the fetus of higher vertebrates. </DL>
<A NAME="exoclinal">
<B>exoclinal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) of or having to do with an exocline. </DL>
<A NAME="exocline">
<B>exocline, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) an inverted fan fold. </DL>
<A NAME="exocoelar">
<B>exocoelar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with the outer side of the coelom or body cavity. </DL>
<A NAME="exocrine">
<B>exocrine, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>secreting outwardly, through a duct or into a cavity. <BR> <I>Ex. exocrine cells. The pancreas is both an exocrine and endocrine gland.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with the exocrine glands. <BR> <I>Ex. exocrine secretions.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="exocrinegland">
<B>exocrine gland,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various glands that discharge their products through ducts or into a cavity; gland of external secretion. The exocrine glands include the salivary, lachrymal, sweat, mammary, and sebaceous glands as well as many others. </DL>
<A NAME="exoculation">
<B>exoculation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of putting out the eyes, as formerly in execution of a judicial sentence; blinding. </DL>
