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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of exact

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exact + -est

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Examples

  • Moreover, (2) before some audiences not even the possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we say to produce conviction.

    Aristotle's Rhetoric - Selected Moments 2010

  • I warrant, since thou exactest such profound respect to yonder tender piece of frailty, whose every motion, step, and look bespeaks her very woman, less than absolute adoration must not be yielded to her of the dark tresses and nobly speaking eye.

    The Talisman 2008

  • Furthermore the ascendant of this our day is, according to the exactest science of computation, the planet Mars; and it so happeneth that Mercury is in conjunction with him, denoting an auspicious moment for hair cutting; and this also maketh manifest to me that thou desires union with a certain person and that your intercourse will not be propitious.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The proper signification and use of terms is best to be learned from those who in their writings and discourses appear to have had the clearest notions, and applied to them their terms with the exactest choice and fitness.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • That our hearts are now more capacious, our thoughts more erected to the search and expectation of greatest and exactest things, is the issue of your own virtue propagated in us; ye cannot suppress that, unless ye reinforce an abrogated and merciless law, that fathers may dispatch at will their own children.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • That our hearts are now more capacious, our thoughts more erected to the search and expectation of greatest and exactest things, is the issue of your own virtue propagated in us; ye cannot suppress that, unless ye reinforce an abrogated and merciless law, that fathers may dispatch at will their own children.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • Is the nearest and exactest survey made by the help of a microscope, or by the naked eye?

    Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 2005

  • Moreover, (2) before some audiences not even the possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we say to produce conviction.

    Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

  • In the strictest course of exactest obedience in us, we are to look for a righteousness wholly without us.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • When we speak of the judgment of charity, we intend not a loose conjecture, much less a judgment contradistinct from that which is righteous, but a righteous and strict judgment, according to the exactest rules whatsoever that we have to judge by, free from evil surmises, and such like vices of the mind as are opposed to the grace of love.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

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