Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To extend beyond or outside of: The river exceeded its banks.
- v. To be greater than; surpass: "a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death” ( Robert Louis Stevenson).
- v. To go beyond the limits of: exceeded my allowance. See Synonyms at excel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To pass or go beyond; proceed beyond the given or supposed limit, measure, or quantity of: as, the task exceeds his strength; he has exceeded his authority.
- To surpass; be superior to; excel.
- Synonyms To transcend, outdo, outvie, outstrip.
- To go too far; pass the proper bounds; go over any given limit, number, or measure: as, to exceed in eating or drinking.
- To bear the greater proportion; be more or larger; predominate.
- To excel.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To be larger, greater than (something).
- v. transitive To be better than (something).
- v. transitive To go beyond (some limit); to surpass, outstrip or transcend.
- v. intransitive To predominate
- v. intransitive, obsolete To overdo
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense.
- v. To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.
- v. To be more or greater; to be paramount.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be or do something to a greater degree
- v. be superior or better than some standard
- v. be greater in scope or size than some standard
Etymologies
- From Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin excedere ("to go out, go forth, go beyond a certain limit, overpass, exceed, transgress"), from ex- ("out, forth") with cedere ("to go"); see cede and compare accede etc. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin excēdere : ex-, ex- + cēdere, to go. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But should they exceed the contract price then the 11 per cent. was to be proportionately decreased by an arranged sliding scale, provided, however, that Van Hattum and Co. did not _exceed the specification by more than 100 per cent. _, in which latter case the”
The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs
“Everyone who reaches retirement age is given benefit privileges that far exceed anything he has paid in -- exceed his payments by more than ten times (or five times counting employer payments)!”
Bartlett and Krugman, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Some of the blog posts at Talking Points Memo talk about how the combined finances of the RNC and McCain exceed $90 million.”
“I do appreciate how the media is phrasing this as "Did Sarah Palin exceed expectations" and not "Did Sarah Palin attract any undecided voters".”
“It's just that when it the transaction costs of negotiating other terms exceed the expected benefit of either party in attempting to do so, they do not.”
A Nice Statement of My Position on IP, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Rationally, on a large scale, housing-cost growth cannot over the long term exceed the average income growth of the community.”
The Wall Street Journal: Artificially Inflated House Prices Caused the Crisis
“If then syllogisms are taken with respect to their main premisses, every syllogism will consist of an even number of premisses and an odd number of terms (for the terms exceed the premisses by one), and the conclusions will be half the number of the premisses.”
“(2) MINIMUM AMOUNT - For any fiscal year for which amounts appropriated for this subtitle exceed $50,000,000, the minimum allotment to each State under paragraph (1) shall be $75,000.”
“There was a quiet laugh at this among some of the men who stood near, for it was well-known that not a few of the laird's ancestors had taken kindly to mountain dew without the hampering influence of moderation, though the good man himself had never been known to "exceed" -- in the”
“Only in 1860 did the number coined exceed the half million mark, but many dollars were melted as bullion in the mid-1860s.”
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