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Excel v. t. (past & past part. excelled; pres. part. excelling)

To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense. "Excelling others, these were great; Thou, greater still, must these excel." "I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness."

To exceed or go beyond; to surpass. "She opened; but to shut Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood."

Excel v. i. To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics. "Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel." "Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Excel" Quotes from Famous Books

... which awakens the contemplation of the statesman and politician, than the New-York Gazette contained during a twelvemonth; and yet it flourished. The traits of Lang's character were unwavering devotion to his pursuits; no one could excel him in the kindness of his demeanor; unconscious of the penury of his intellectual powers, he at times, unwittingly became the pliant agent of designing individuals, and from the blunders into which he was led, his baptismal name, ...

— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various

... be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear and welcome; to have a fact, a thought, or an illustration, pat to every subject; and not only to cheer the flight of time among our intimates, but bear our part in that great international congress, always sitting, where public wrongs are ...

— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson

... with both eyes at this illustration of the case; but, though not much of a reasoner, he had the sense in which some logicians on this particular subject do not excel,—that of saying nothing, where nothing could be said. So, as he stood carefully stroking his umbrella, and folding and patting down all the creases in it, he proceeded on with his exhortations ...

— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... a rare and brilliant instance of those natural qualities in which these peculiar people are said to excel," he answered. "I agree with you, Alice, in thinking that such a front and eye were formed rather to intimidate than to deceive; but let us not practice a deception upon ourselves, by expecting any other exhibition of what we esteem virtue than according to the fashion ...

— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper

... the natural blossoms, which they excel in beauty, live ten hours only, but they so far differ from them that their pods ...

— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)

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