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exility|ɛkˈsɪlɪtɪ|
[ad. L. exīlitāt-em, n. of quality f. exīlis exile a.]
1. Shrunken or attenuated condition, smallness in number or size; thinness, slenderness, meagreness.
1528St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 130 The Kingis revenues be brought to suche exilitie, that they suffice nat to ordinarie charges. c1534tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 72 The place wherin thei foughte was verie streyght, and therfor commodius to the exilitee of the Romains. 1641Prynne Antip. 270 The exilitie and smalenesse of his learning. 1750G. Hughes Barbadoes 41 They [Guinea worms] are exceeding long in respect to their great exility and thinness. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Cowley Wks. II. 24 Subtlety..in its original import means exility of particles. 1813J. Forsyth Remarks on Antiq., etc. during an Excursion Italy 382 The apparent height and the exility admired in a Gothic pillar. 1819H. Busk Vestriad iv. 313 His exility of snout. 1847in Craig.
†b. Smallness or slenderness of income or revenue; poorness, poverty. Obs.
1559Abp. Parker, etc. in Parker's Corresp. (1853) 100 In consideration of the exility of the bishopricks. 1562Grindal Let. to Abp. Parker Wks. (1843) 252 If by exility or decay of benefices..any arrearages be. 1651Fuller's Abel Rediv., Andrewes (1867) II. 161 His majesty..(because of the exility of that bishopric) soon after added the parsonage of Cheyham. 1774Hutchins Hist. Dorset I. 63 The bishop of Sarum sets forth the exility of the two churches..which were not sufficient to maintain a priest each.
2. Of a sound, spirit, a woven substance, etc.: Tenuity, thinness, fine texture. Hence of immaterial things: Refinement, subtlety.
1626Bacon Sylva §154 The Voice or other Sound is reduced, by such passage to a great Weakness or Exility. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. ii. ii. xxi, This souls thin spread exility. 1751Harris Hermes iii. vi. Wks. (1841) 232 Bodies so exceedingly fine, that their very exility makes them susceptible of sensation. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xxi. §4 (1819) 334 This extreme exility [of light] though difficult to conceive, is easy to prove. 1802Ann. Reg. 11 The Act of Faith..is expressed..on the thinnest paper, the exility of which [etc.]. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1859) I. 286 [They] could not appreciate such exility of elegance, and such sublimated refinement. 1866J. Martineau Ess. I. 144 The extreme exility of the evidence.
b. concr. A refinement, subtlety.
1647H. More Poems 111 The soul..contemns as nought unseen exilities. |