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Exigent

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.

    "2003, Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations, U.S. Department of Defence Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority."

  2. 2
    Demanding; requiring great effort.
Adjective
  1. 1
    requiring precise accuracy wordnet
  2. 2
    demanding attention wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency. archaic

    "Theſe Eyes, like Lampes, whoſe waſting Oyle is ſpent, / Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent."

  2. 2
    The amount that is required. archaic

    "[H]is enterprise / Marked out anew, its exigent of wit / Apportioned, she at liberty to sit / And scheme against the next emergence, […]"

  3. 3
    A writ in proceedings before outlawry. British, obsolete

    "They also make forthe writs of executions, and of seifin, writs of super seders, for appearance to exigents"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin exigēns, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”). Doublet of exigeant.

Etymology 2

From Latin exigēns, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”). Doublet of exigeant.

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