Exigent

Definitions

1. Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.
   archaic
2. The amount that is required.
   archaic
3. A writ in proceedings before outlawry.
   British, obsolete

Equivalents

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.”

“[H]is enterprise / Marked out anew, its exigent of wit / Apportioned, she at liberty to sit⟳ / And scheme against the next emergence, […]”

“They also make⟳ forthe writs of executions, and of seifin, writs of super seders, for appearance to exigents”

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