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- verb dated Alternative form of
exceeding ; Present participle ofexcede .
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Examples
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What will CC do in the mean time? from what I've read CC is already exceding capacity, and still growing. quintushalls
San Diego Convention Center Plans $753 million Expansion in Bid to Keep Comic-Con | /Film 2010
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In ye heat of ye talke it befell yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mighty & diftrefsfull stink, whereat all did laffe full fore, and then:
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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In ye heat of ye talke it befell yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mighty & diftrefsfull stink, whereat all did laffe full fore, and then:
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The Acridophagie (a people borderyng vpon the deaserte) are somewhat lower of stature then the residewe, leane, and exceding blacke.
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Vvhereby is expressed the peculiar trade of al Heretikes, and exceding proper to the Protestants, that so corrupt Scriptures by mixture of their ovvne phantasies, by false translations, glosses, colorable and pleasant commentaries, to deceiue the tast of the simple, as tauerners and tapsters do, to make their vvines salable by manifold artificial deceites.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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For, from every spark, if we do not timely extinguish it, an exceding great burning will arise.
The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius
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And there secretely inquyring of the Lady, with whom he had left his daughter, and of her state, he learned that his doughter was her sonnes wife, whereof hee toke exceding great pleasure.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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In ye heat of ye talk it befel yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full sore, and then --
1601 Mark Twain 1872
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And he was a man of exceding height and fair to look upon.
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The Islands of different Sizes and all of round Stone and Sand, no timber of any kind in Sight of the river, a fiew Small willows excepted; in the evening the countrey becomes lower not exceding 90 or 100 feet above the water and back is a wavering
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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