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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

... see her here in this rollicking, rustic gathering. She was, he thought, even more lovely than he remembered her. Beauty sometimes seen again does excel our recollections of it. Wylder had gone off the scene, as Mr. Carlyle says, into infinite space. Who could tell exactly the cause of his dismissal, and why the young lady had asserted her capricious resolve to ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... the priests are regarded with infinite respect, they are not absolutely free from vice. When they have money, they spend it as freely as they have gained it. The number of pretty women who daily repair to the temple is very great. They far excel the women of the inferior classes in Hindustan in the elegance of their manners, their fine proportions, ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne

... to Christ, and said: "Behold! The man, presumptuous and overbold, Who boasted that his mercy could excel Thine own, is dead and on ...

— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce

... habitual distance chequered by glimpses of a nearer intimacy, and on the whole wider extremes of temperament and sensibility. The boy of the South seems more wholesome, but less thoughtful; he gives himself to games as to a business, striving to excel, but is not readily transported by imagination; the type remains with me as cleaner in mind and body, more active, fonder of eating, endowed with a lesser and a less romantic sense of life and of the ...

— Memories and Portraits • Robert Louis Stevenson

... country! Yes; as Venice was. She may excel other nations in commerce, but yet it is not that in which she most prides herself, in which she most excels. Merchants as such are not the first men among us; though it perhaps be open, barely open, to ...

— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope

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