4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exceeding \Ex*ceed"ing\, adv.
In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly. [Archaic. It
is not joined to verbs.] ``The voice exceeding loud.''
--Keble.
His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow.
--Mark ix. 3.
The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exceed \Ex*ceed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exceeded}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Exceeding}.] [L. excedere, excessum, to go away or
beyond; ex out + cedere to go, to pass: cf. F. exc['e]der.
See {Cede}.]
To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit
or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good
and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk,
stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds
another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.
Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days.
--Shak.
Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. --Pope.
Syn: To outdo; surpass; excel; transcend; outstrip; outvie;
overtop.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exceeding \Ex*ceed"ing\, a.
More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient;
measureless. ``The exceeding riches of his grace.'' --Eph.
ii. 7. -- {Ex*ceed"ing*ness}, n. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
exceeding
adj : far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of
exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian
efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young
Mozart's prodigious talents" [syn: {exceptional}, {olympian},
{prodigious}, {surpassing}]