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ex L.
ex out of, prep. and prefix (see
EX-1, E-) = Gr.
ex (see
EX-2), OIr.
ess-. In Eng. in certain L. phrs., as
ex cathedra from the
CHAIR (i.e. of authority) XIX;
ex libris ‘out of the books’ (of somebody), from the
LIBRARY (of) XIX;
ex officio by virtue of one's
OFFICE XVI;
ex(-)parte with respect to a
PART, (leg.) on one side only XVII;
ex voto (short for
ex voto suscepto from a vow undertaken) offering made in pursuance of a vow XVIII.
b. Prefixed to titles of rank after late L. usage in
excōnsul, nom. evolved from
ex cōnsule ‘from (being) consul’, (hence) lately consul; whence gen. with the sense ‘former’, as in
ex-professor, and by further extension prefixed to adjs. (after
ex-consular XVII) or to sbs. used attrib., as
ex-service.
c. In commercial use, with ref. to goods, ‘out of’, ‘landed from’ (a ship); similarly
ex-warehouse; ‘without’, ‘exclusive of’, as in
ex-dividend.
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