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Webster 1913 Edition

Exceed

Ex-ceed′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Exceeded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Exceeding
.]
[L.
excedere
,
excessum
, to go away or beyond;
ex
out +
cedere
to go, to pass: cf. F.
excéder
. See
Cede
.]
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;
as, one man
exceeds
another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender
exceeds
another in villainy; his rank
exceeds
yours
.
Name the time, but let it not
Exceed
three days.
Shakespeare
Syn. – To outdo; surpass; excel; transcend; outstrip; outvie; overtop.

Ex-ceed′

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.
“In our reverence to whom, we can not possibly exceed.”
Jer. Taylor.
Forty stripes he may give him, and not
exceed
.
Deut. xxv. 3.
2.
To be more or greater; to be paramount.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Exceed

EXCEE'D

,
Verb.
T.
[L. excedo; ex and cedo, to pass.
1.
To pass or go beyond; to proceed beyond any given or supposed limit, measure or quantity, or beyond any thing else; used equally in a physical or moral sense. One piece of cloth exceeds the customary length or breadth; one man exceeds another in bulk, stature or weight; one offender exceeds another in villainy.
2.
To surpass; to excel. Homer exceeded all men in epic poetry. Demosthenes and Cicero exceeded their contemporaries in oratory.
King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. l Kings.10.

EXCEE'D

,
Verb.
I.
To go too far; to pass the proper bounds; to go over any given limit, number or measure.
Forty stripes may he give him, and not exceed. Deut.25.
1.
To bear the greater proportion; to be more or larger.
[This verb is intransitive only by ellipsis.]

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