Exigent

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  • adjective. Requiring immediate action; pressing: synonym: urgent.
  • adjective. Having or making urgent demands; demanding.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Urgently requiring: exacting.
  • noun. An urgent occasion; an occasion that calls for immediate aid or action; an exigency.
  • noun. End; extremity.
  • noun. In English law, formerly, a writ preliminary to outlawry, which lay where the defendant could not be found, or after a return of non est inventus on former writs.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.
  • noun. Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.
  • noun. The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Urgent; needing immediate action.
  • adjective. Demanding; needing great effort.
  • noun. Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency
  • noun. The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
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  • adjective. requiring precise accuracy
  • adjective. demanding attention
  • Word Usage
    "For his own system he claims the merit of establishing an invariable mode of causality, namely, that in every case by the sacrament validly received there is conferred a "title exigent of grace"."
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