4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exact \Ex*act"\, v. i.
To practice exaction. [R.]
The anemy shall not exact upon him. --Ps. lxxxix.
22.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exact \Ex*act"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exacted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Exacting}.] [From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL.
exactare: cf. OF. exacter. See {Exact}, a.]
To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a
right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel
to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward
when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one
subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience,
etc., from or of some one.
He said into them, Exact no more than that which is
appointed you. --Luke. iii.
13.
Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward
at last --Dryden.
My designs Exact me in another place. --Massinger.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exact \Ex*act"\, a. [L. exactus precise, accurate, p. p. of
exigere to drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine,
measure; ex out + agere to drive; cf. F. exact. See {Agent},
{Act}.]
1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth;
perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short
in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock
keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of
a letter; exact accounts.
I took a great pains to make out the exact truth.
--Jowett
(Thucyd. )
2. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a
promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact
in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact. ``I
see thou art exact of taste.'' --Milton.
3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of
reason. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
exact
adj 1: marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with
fact; "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the exact
center of the target" [ant: {inexact}]
2: (of ideas, images, representations, expressions)
characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ;
strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise
measurement" [syn: {accurate}, {precise}]
v 1: claim as due or just; "The bank demanded payment of the
loan" [syn: {demand}]
2: take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of
affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard
work took its toll on her" [syn: {claim}, {take}]