Exigent

Quick meaning: Exigent is an adjective meaning Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.

Meaning

Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.

More Meanings

1. Demanding; requiring great effort.
2. (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.
3. (archaic) The amount that is required.
4. (obsolete, British, law) A writ in proceedings before outlawry.

Example Sentences

Theſe Eyes, like Lampes, whoſe waſting Oyle is ſpent, / Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent.

They also make forthe writs of executions, and of seifin, writs of super seders, for appearance to exigents

[H]is enterprise / Marked out anew, its exigent of wit / Apportioned, she at liberty to sit / And scheme against the next emergence, […]

Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome [Cicero 5° de finibus.], there was one or other that called for an interpreter: ſo leſt the Church be driuen to the like exigent, it is neceſſary to haue tranſlations in a readineſſe.

Word Forms

• exigeant
• exigents

Synonyms for exigent

Depending on context, synonyms include imperative, exacting, insistent, demanding, clamant, instant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clamant, insistent, demanding, exacting, instant, imperative.

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