(a.) Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.
(a.) Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
Example Sentences:
(1) This exorbitant incidence of monilial infections and infestations was associated with a high frequency of complications involving the homograft as well as the hosts' gastrointestinal tract during the post-transplantation period.
(2) Leonid Petrov, an expert on the North at the Australian National University, said of the North's statement: "It's a good sign, they are prepared to negotiate, but they are demanding an exorbitant and impermissibly high price … The game will continue."
(3) Talking this week to several, I heard the same story of exorbitant fees and shocking interest rates throttling real production, while Adair Turner's "socially useless" financial products attract limitless bubble credit.
(4) To identify a role for protein kinase C in lacrimal gland protein secretion, we incubated rat exorbital lacrimal gland acini in the ester 4-beta-phorbol 12, 13 dibutyrate (beta-phorbol dibutyrate), its inactive isomer 4-alpha-phorbol 12, 13 dibutyrate (alpha-phorbol dibutyrate), and the diacylglycerol analog 1,2-oleoyl acetylglycerol (OAG).
(5) Ultimately this will spell the end of America's "exorbitant privilege".
(6) In other words, European practice reflects the dollar's "exorbitant privilege" as the only true global currency, freely accepted by currency traders and investors in China and around the world.
(7) The authors believe the ability to isolate and analyze acinar preparations from the rabbit lacrimal gland will facilitate various studies of acinar cell biochemistry and physiology that would be impractical with the relatively smaller amounts of material that can be obtained from rat or mouse exorbital lacrimal glands.
(8) To begin with the central problem: the exorbitant length.
(9) Lord Myners, the City minister, warned bankers tonight that "exorbitant" bonuses would not be tolerated because profits were only being made on the back of the billions of pounds of taxpayers' money propping up the financial system.
(10) But the loans come with exorbitant rates of interest.
(11) The destruction of farms and markets, a de facto blockade on commercial imports, and a long-running fuel crisis have caused a drop in agricultural production, a scarcity of supplies and exorbitant food prices,” Oxfam said.
(12) The practice in question abused "standards-essential patents" to demand exorbitant license fees from companies that are required to must comply with a standard like 3G or Wi-Fi to make smartphones, game consoles and computers.
(13) The Italian club quoted an exorbitant loan fee when Liverpool made their initial approach on Wednesday and rejected a proposal that the temporary deal could be terminated should Balotelli step out of line.
(14) EACF caused initiation of DNA synthesis in the liver, submandibular gland, exorbital lacrimal gland and epithelium of the tongue of adult mice after i.p.
(15) These results suggest that, in the rat exorbital lacrimal gland, the Golgi saccules participate in the transport of secretory proteins, and that GERL is involved in the formation of secretory granules.
(16) Vast numbers of right-to-buy properties are now rented out by private landlords who enjoyed the hefty purchase discount, and now make even more money through exorbitant private rents.
(17) Capitalism meant exorbitant wealth at the top, but it also meant rapid technological progress and economic growth.
(18) Segments of mouse pancreatic or exorbital lacrimal gland were superfused with saline solutions.
(19) The muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (MAChR) is an important mediator of parasympathetic regulation of secretion by the rat exorbital lacrimal gland.
(20) He made a rare intervention to remind the Conservatives that they lose when they look heartless, that there is a silent phenomenon of " lace curtain poverty " in Britain and that exorbitant energy prices have left many choosing between eating and heating their homes.
Exuberant
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage.
Example Sentences:
(1) From ten days to six weeks of age patches are exuberant and on occasion fuse to beaded bands extending radially from the injection site.
(2) The company’s exuberant chief operating officer, Bibop Gresta (who also takes the title “chief bibop officer”) listed all the ways his plan built on Musk’s.
(3) "As to the origins of this practice, I'm not certain, but the exuberance of Argentina's public displays of emotion go a long way, since the descamisados of Peron in the 1940s," he adds.
(4) But the director Lionel Jeffries was such an exuberant personality, you couldn't say no.
(5) Throughout history there have been periods of wild exuberance followed by the pricking of bubbles.
(6) The early failures were most commonly attributed to technical factors (33 percent) and graft occlusion by exuberant pericardial scarring (33 percent).
(7) Maroh did, however, criticise the film's explicit sex scenes , saying they brought to mind "a brutal and surgical display, exuberant and cold, of so-called lesbian sex, which turned into porn, and made me feel very ill at ease … I lost the control of my book as soon as I gave it away to be read.
(8) There were no signs of valvular stenosis, exuberant peel formation, or calcification of the conduit in any of the patients.
(9) The histology, which varies according to the stage of the disease, is characterized by an exuberant intrasinusoidal histiocytic proliferation.
(10) Yet, there is no doubt that All Star has been targeted for its specific qualities – the main ones being its feelgood nostalgia value and a laughably exuberant pop-punk style that feels totally earnest.
(11) It is suggested that this 'Good Samaritan' activity of RBCs may lead to haemolysis during periods of exuberant antibody response to microbes.
(12) But only now, when the world's biggest economies have been lashed by the fallout from the irrational exuberance of the markets, has the idea captured the imagination of their leaders, including Gordon Brown , right.
(13) As tales of joy filtered through social media and local news websites, accompanied, inevitably, by exuberant pictures of leaping teens, a few stories stood out from the others.
(14) Blockade of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors on retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) during development prevents the elimination of the exuberant spine-like processes in a population of Type I RGCs in hamsters.
(15) But although the Chinese economy has picked up again, there is no ground for exuberance.
(16) Osteoblastic osteitis is a rare kind of bone infection typified by a proliferative reaction of the periosteum and by exuberant bone formation.
(17) Once microbial colonisation is established, the host responds exuberantly with non-specific and immune inflammatory responses which fail to clear the microbial flora but damage the 'innocent bystander' lung.
(18) It expands what language can do and what fiction can do, and when a reader collides with that unruly exuberance, he or she has to shift perspective.
(19) An exuberant chronic aseptic meningitis with foreign body giant cells and immunoreactive keratin was present around the spinal cord and brainstem.
(20) Since no evidence of topographical exuberance of connections could be found, it is hypothesized that the development of anterior commissure connections is entirely progressive, lacking the regressive events that characterize callosal ontogenesis.