Exceed

Exceed - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

EXCEE'D, v.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, v.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. Deu 25.

1. To bear the greater proportion; to be more or larger.

[This verb is intransitive only by ellipsis.]

Exceeding - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

EXCEE'DING, ppr. Going beyond; surpassing; excelling; outdoing.

1. Great in extent, quantity or duration; very extensive.

Cities were built an exceeding space of time before the flood. [This sense is unusual.]

2. adv. In a very great degree; unusually; as exceeding rich.

The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea.

I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Gen 15.

EXCEE'DING, n. Excess; superfluity.

Exceedingly - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

EXCEE'DINGLY, adv. To a very great degree; in a degree beyond what is usual; greatly; very much.

Isaac trembled exceedingly. Gen 27.

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The verb is found in other than its present sense in Job 36:9 the King James Version, "They have exceeded" the (Revised Version (British and American)) "behaved themselves proudly"); 1Sa 20:41, "They .... wept .... until David exceeded" (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)). In both these passages the idea is that of going too far, beyond proper bounds (Hebrew, respectively, gabhar, "be strong" (in the Hithpael); gadhal, "be great" (in the Hiphil). "Exceeding" (as an adverb with adjectives and rarely as an adjective) and "exceedingly" occur often as representing various expressions for the superlative in Hebrew and Greek.