Ex*ten"u*a`tor (?), n. One who extenuates.
Ex*ten"u*a*to*ry (?), a. [Cf. L. extenuatorius attenuating.] Tending to extenuate or palliate. Croker.
Ex*te"ri*or, a. [L. exterior, compar. of exter or exterus on the outside, outward, foreign, strange, a compar. fr. ex: cf. F. extérieur. See Ex&?;, and cf. Extreme, Interior.] 1. External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.
Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man
Resemble that it was.
Shak.
2. External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.
Without exterior help sustained.
Milton.
3. Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.
Exterior angle (Geom.), the angle included between any side of a triangle or polygon and the prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outside. -- Exterior side (Fort.), the side of the polygon upon which a front of fortification is formed. Wilhelm.
See Illust. of Ravelin.
Ex*te"ri*or, n. 1. The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.
2. Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.
Ex*te`ri*or"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. extériorité.] Surface; superficies; externality.
Ex*te"ri*or*ly (?), adv. Outwardly; externally; on the exterior. Shak.
They are exteriorly lifelike.
J. H. Morse.
Ex*ter"mi*nate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exterminated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating(?).] [L. exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term.] 1. To drive out or away; to expel.
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion.
Barrow.
2. To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.
To explode and exterminate rank atheism.
Bentley.