1. Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond
the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as,
exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.
Foul exorbitant desires.
Milton. 2. Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
The Jews . . . [were] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for.
Hooker. Exorbitantly
(Ex*or"bi*tant*ly), adv. In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
Exorbitate
(Ex*or"bi*tate) v. i. [L. exorbitatus, p. p. of exorbitare. See Exorbitant.] To go out of the
track; to deviate. [Obs.] Bentley.
Exorcise
(Ex"or*cise) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exorcised (- sizd); p. pr. & vb. n. Exorcising (- si`zing).]
[L. exorcizare, Gr. 'exorki`zein; 'ex out + "orki`zein to make one swear, bind by an oath, fr. "o`rkos
oath: cf. F. exorciser.]
1. To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain
ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one.
He impudently excorciseth devils in the church.
Prynne. 2. To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
Exorcise the beds and cross the walls.
Dryden.
Mr. Spectator . . . do all you can to exorcise crowds who are . . . processed as I am.
Spectator. Exorciser
(Ex"or*ci`ser) n. An exorcist.
Exorcism
(Ex"or*cism) n. [L. exorcismus, Gr. 'exorkizmo`s; cf. F. exorcisme.]
1. The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the
form of conjuration used.
2. Conjuration for raising spirits. [R.] Shak.
Exorcist
(Ex"or*cist) n. [L. exorcista, Gr. 'exorkisth`s: cf. F. exorciste.]
1. One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.
Certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists.
Acts xix. 13. 2. A conjurer who can raise spirits. [R.]
Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up
My mortified spirit.
Shak. Exordial
(Ex*or"di*al) a. Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.
The exordial paragraph of the second epistle.
I. Taylor. Exordium
(Ex*or"di*um) n.; pl. E. Exordiums L. Exordia [L. fr. exordiri to begin a web, lay a warp,
begin; ex out + ordiri to begin a web, begin; akin to E. order. See Order.] A beginning; an introduction; especially,
the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main
