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† exˈcedent Obs. rare.
[ad. L. excēdent-em, pr. pple. of excēdĕre: see exceed.]
a. adj. used absol. That which exceeds.
b. n. [after Fr. excédant] The portion or quantity in excess; excess.
1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. III. ii. 99 The first excesse and defect is in two, in the excedent and the deficient. 1811J. Black tr. Humboldt's Polit. Ess. I. 108 The population would double in..two hundred and fourteen years, if no war..were to diminish the annual excedent of the births. |