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adjective

Exact adj.

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."

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."

Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict. "An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason."

verb

Exact v. t. (past & past part. exacted; pres. part. exacting) 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." "Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last" "My designs Exact me in another place."

Exact v. i. To practice exaction. (R.) "The anemy shall not exact upon him."

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... tears during the singing. The "chaste old verger" (as our reporter called him), who headed the procession at least four times a day, up and down the church, was a very important and successful part of the machinery, and from him, up to the highest official, everything was carried out with exact precision. ...

— From Death into Life - or, twenty years of my ministry • William Haslam

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— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. - From Henry VII. to Mary • David Hume

... made of these volumes a series of romances with scenes laid in the iron and steel world. Each book presents a vivid picture of some phase of this great industry. The information given is exact and truthful; above all, each story is full of ...

— Adventures in Toyland - What the Marionette Told Molly • Edith King Hall

... also observed that all the quadrupeds inhabiting the islands lying on one side of an imaginary sinuous line, differed widely from the quadrupeds inhabiting the islands lying on the other side of that line. Now, soundings showed that in exact correspondence with this imaginary sinuous line the sea was much deeper than in any other part of the Archipelago. Consequently, how beautiful is the explanation. We have only to suppose that at some previous time the sea bottom was raised sufficiently to unite all the islands on each side of the ...

— The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution • George John Romanes

... Richmond. I have endeavored to sketch it faithfully. The conversation with Mr. Davis I took down shortly after entering the Union lines, and I have tried to report his exact language, extenuating nothing, and coloring nothing that he said. Some of his sentences, as I read them over, appear stilted and high-flown, but they did not sound so when uttered. As listened to, they seemed the simple, natural language ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 • Various

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