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Word Meanings - OUTGENERAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To exceed in generalship; to gain advantage over by superior military skill or executive ability; to outmaneuver. Chesterfield.

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  • EXCEEDING
    More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
  • EXCEPT
    1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
  • SKILLFUL
    1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
  • ABILITY
    The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then
  • EXCEPTIONER
    One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
  • SKILLED
    Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
  • EXCEDENT
    Excess.
  • SKILLIGALEE
    A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
  • ADVANTAGE
    1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages
  • EXECUTIVE
    Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer,
  • EXCEPTIONAL
    Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
  • EXCERNENT
    Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.
  • EXCENTRICITY
    . Same as Eccentricity.
  • EXCEPTANT
    Making exception.
  • EXCENTRIC; EXCENTRICAL
    One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. Gray. (more info) 1. Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.
  • EXCECATE
    To blind. Cockeram.
  • EXCEPTLESS
    Not exceptional; usual. My general and exceptless rashness. Shak.
  • EXCEEDABLE
    Capable of exceeding or surpassing. Sherwood.
  • SUPERIORLY
    In a superior position or manner.
  • EXCERPT
    To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.
  • ADORABILITY
    Adorableness.
  • AMENABILITY
    The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
  • SUITABILITY
    The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • EQUABILITY
    The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.
  • DEFLAGRABILITY
    The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.
  • COMMENSURABILITY
    The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
  • IMMEABILITY
    Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot.
  • INEVITABILITY
    Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
  • EFFUMABILITY
    The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • TAMABILITY
    The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
  • INSOCIABILITY
    The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. Bp. Warburton.
  • OPPOSABILITY
    The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
  • INSURMOUNTABILITY
    The state or quality of being insurmountable.
  • REPEALABILITY
    The quality or state of being repealable.
  • INHERITABILITY
    The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.

 

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