EXIGENT
\ɛɡzˈa͡ɪd͡ʒənt], \ɛɡzˈaɪdʒənt], \ɛ_ɡ_z_ˈaɪ_dʒ_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of EXIGENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"
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requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"
By Princeton University
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demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"
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requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"
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Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.
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Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.
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The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
By Oddity Software
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Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.
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Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.
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The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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eks'i-jent, adj. pressing: demanding immediate attention or action.--n. end, extremity: (Browning) a needed amount.--adj. EXIGEANT', exacting.--n.fem. EXIGEANTE'.--ns. EX'IGENCE, EX'IGENCY, pressing necessity: emergency: distress.--adj. EX'IGIBLE, capable of being exacted.--ns. EXIG[=U]'ITY, EXIG'UOUSNESS.--adj. EXIG'UOUS, small: slender. [L. exigens, -entis--exig[)e]re--ex, out, ag[)e]re, to drive.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Sir Augustus Henry
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