Extent
(Ex*tent"), n. [L. extentus, fr. extendere. See Extend.]
1. Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an
extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity.
Life in its large extent is scare a span.
Cotton. 2. Degree; measure; proportion. "The extent to which we can make ourselves what we wish to be." Lubbock.
3. (Eng. Law) (a) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands
and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment. (b) A process of execution by which the
lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.
Extenuate
(Ex*ten"u*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extenuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Extenuating] [L. extenuatus,
p. p. of extenuare to make thin, loosen, weaken; ex out + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See Tenuity.]
1. To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail.
Grew. 2. To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt,
faults, ills, accusations, etc.; — opposed to aggravate.
But fortune there extenuates the crime.
Dryden.
Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality.
I. Taylor. 3. To lower or degrade; to detract from. [Obs.]
Who can extenuate thee?
Milton. Syn. — To palliate; to mitigate. See Palliate.
Extenuate
(Ex*ten"u*ate), v. i. To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations.
Burke.
Extenuate
(Ex*ten"u*ate) a. [L. extenuatus, p. p.] Thin; slender. [Obs.] Huloet.
Extenuation
(Ex*ten`u*a"tion) n. [L. extenuatio: cf. F. exténuation.] The act of axtenuating or the state
of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation,
as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.
To listen . . . to every extenuation of what is evil.
I. Taylor. Extenuator
(Ex*ten"u*a`tor) n. One who extenuates.
Extenuatory
(Ex*ten"u*a*to*ry) a. [Cf. L. extenuatorius attenuating.] Tending to extenuate or palliate.
Croker.
Exterior
(Ex*te"ri*or), a. [L. exterior, compar. of exter or exterus on the outside, outward, foreign,
strange, a compar. fr. ex: cf. F. extérieur. See Ex, and cf. Extreme, Interior.]
1. External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; — opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a
sphere.
Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man
Resemble that it was.
Shak.
