exigent
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Is exigent a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.Examples: "Theſe Eyes, like Lampes, whoſe waſting Oyle is ſpent, / Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent."; "Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome [Cicero 5° de finibus.], there was one or other that called for an interpreter: ſo leſt the Church be driuen to the like exigent, it is neceſſary to haue tranſlations in a readineſſe."archaic
2. (archaic) The amount that is required.Examples: "[H]is enterprise / Marked out anew, its exigent of wit / Apportioned, she at liberty to sit / And scheme against the next emergence, […]"archaic
3. (obsolete, British, law) A writ in proceedings before outlawry.Examples: "They also make forthe writs of executions, and of seifin, writs of super seders, for appearance to exigents"Britishobsolete
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