Word Meanings - OUTBUILD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To exceed in building, or in durability of building.

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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.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• EXCEDENT
  Excess.
• DURABILITY
  The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas
• 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.
• EXCERPT
  To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.
• EXCELLENT
  1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims,
• EXCELSIOR
  More lofty; still higher; ever upward.
• EXCEPTIONABLE
  Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem. Addison.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• BUILDING
  1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall. 2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. The execution of works of architecture
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• OUTBUILD
  To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
• OVERBUILD
  1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
• UNDERBUILDER
  A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
• REBUILDER
  One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.
• REBUILD
  To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
• UNBUILD
  To demolish; to raze. "To unbuild the city." Shak.