Everlasting - EVERL`ASTING, a. [ever and lasting.] Lasting or enduring for ever; eternal; existing or continuing without end; immortal.
The everlasting God, or Jehovah. Gen 21.
Everlasting fire; everlasting punishment. Mat 18:25.
1. Perpetual; continuing indefinitely, or during the present state of things.
I will give thee, and thy seed after thee, the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Gen 17.
The everlasting hills or mountains. Genesis. Habakkuk.
2. In popular usage, endless; continual; unintermitted; as, the family is disturbed with everlasting disputes.
EVERL`ASTING, n. Eternity; eternal duration, past and future.
From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Psa 90.
1. A plant, the Gnaphalium; also, the Xeranthenum.
Exactor - EXACT'OR, n. One who exacts; an officer who collects tribute, taxes or customs.
I will make thine officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. Isa 60.
1. An extortioner; one who compels another to pay more than is legal or reasonable; one who demands something without pity or regard to justice.
2. He that demands by authority; as an exactor of oaths.
3. One who is unreasonably severe in his injunctions or demands.
Exalt - EXALT', v.t. egzolt'. [Low L. exalto; ex and altus, high.]
1. To raise high; to elevate.
2. To elevate in power, wealth, rank or dignity; as, to exalt one to a throne, to the chief magistracy, to a bishopric.
3. To elevate with joy or confidence; as, to be exalted with success or victory. [We now use elate.]
4. To raise with pride; to make undue pretensions to power, rank or estimation; to elevate too high or above others.
He that exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke 14. Mat 23.
5. To elevate in estimation and praise; to magnify; to praise; to extol.
He is my father's God, and I will exalt him. Exo 15.
6. To raise, as the voice; to raise in opposition. 2 Ki 19.
7. To elevate in diction or sentiment; to make sublime; as exalted strains.
8. In physics, to elevate; to purify; to subtilize; to refine; as, to exalt the juices or the qualities of bodies.
Exchanger - EXCHANGER, n. One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. Mat 25.
Extend - EXTEND', v.t. [L. extendo; ex and tendo, teneo.]
1. To stretch in any direction; to carry forward, or continue in length, as a line; to spread in breadth; to expand or dilate in size. The word is particularly applied to length and breadth. We extend lines in surveying; we extend roads, limits, bounds; we extend metal plates by hammering.
2. To stretch; to reach forth; as, to extend the arm of hand.
3. To spread; to expand; to enlarge; to widen; as, to extend the capacities, or intellectual powers; to extend the sphere of usefulness; to extend commerce.
4. To continue; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment; to extend the season of trial.
5. To communicate; to bestow on; to use or exercise towards.
He hath extended mercy to me before the king. Ezra 7.
6. To impart; to yield or give.
I will extend peace to her like a river. Isa 66.
7. In law, to value lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; or to levy on lands, as an execution.
The execution was delivered to the sheriff, who extended the same on certain real estate.
EXTEND', v.i. To stretch; to reach; to be continued in length or breadth. The state of Massachusetts extends west to the border of the state of New York. Connecticut river extends from Canada to the sound. How far will your argument or proposition extend? Let our charities extend to the heathen.