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English
Etymology
From Latin eximius (“set apart, select”), from eximō (“take out or away; deliver, free”), from ex (“out of, from”) + emō (“buy; acquire, take”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
eximious (comparative more eximious, superlative most eximious)
- (archaic) Pre-eminent, outstanding.
1850, “The Hercules Cheap Paletot”, in Punch, volume 18, page 38:You've read the death of Hercules,
In classic tale related;
But there the facts of his decease
Erroneously are stated:
Each schoolboy will at large recite
Fast as his Alphabeta,
How that eximious man of might
Departed on Mount Eta.
2002, A.S. Byatt, A Whistling Woman, Vintage International, published 2004, page 115:Eximious is a delicious word, meaning, outstanding.
Derived terms
References
- Noah Webster (1828) “eximious”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: In Two Volumes.">…], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe , →OCLC.
- “eximious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “eximious”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.