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exect

exect verb: to cut off or out.

Verb

exect (third-person singular simple present exects, present participle execting, simple past and past participle exected)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cut off or out.
    • the Office of the Spleen is of great importance, though it may be ſupplyed by other parts, in caſe it be diſeaſed, obſtructed, or exected1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions

Forms of exect

third-person singular presentexects
present participleexecting
past participleexected
pastexected

Origin of exect

See exsect.

Questions about exect

What does exect mean?
Exect means to cut off or out.
What part of speech is exect?
Exect is a verb.
What is the past tense of exect?
The past tense of exect is exected.

Words near exect in the dictionary

  1. execratives
  2. execrator
  3. execrators
  4. execratory
  5. execs
  6. exect
  7. exected
  8. execting
  9. exection
  10. exects
  11. execu.

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