Exact (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. The adj., only Sir SI" ' In my doin^ I was exact ' (tv iroi-fian. ijloii 5iTiKpipT\ai.iirii' A, but B has iv TToiiiaci \iiu>v SiTiKpipaaipL-riv, ' in the doing of hunger (?) I was exact ' ; Fritzsche suggests, and most edd. adopt, vbii.ov, ' in the doing of the law '). Here 'exact means 'strict,' 'particular,' aa Shaks. Troil. and Cres. IV. v. 232— ' Now, Hector, I have fed mine eyes on thee ; I have with exact view perused thee, Hector,' and Herbert, The Temple : ' Faith,' 1. 43— • What though my bodie runne to dust? Faith cleaves unto it, counting every grain With an exact and most particular trust. Reserving all for flesh again.' 2. As verb frequently. Notice Ps 89" ' The enemy shall not exact upon him ' (u K-orrfS, RVm ' do him violence ') ; the mod. phrase is ' impose exactions upon.' Cf. Burnet (16S7), Trav. ii. 86, ' Innkeepers think they have a right to exact upon Strangers.' In Lk 3» RV has changed ' Exact do more than that which is appointed you,' into 'Extort no more,' etc. But 'exact' was surely strong enough ; were they permitted to extort anything! Tind." has ' require.' Following the Vulg. faciatU, Wyclif has ' do ye no more,' and Rheiius ' Uoe nothing more.' which seems a natural reply to ' What shall we do?' But the Greek rerbe are not the game, Ti w, wurmtifM (TR wur.vofAi) and Mn3i> . EXCEED EXCELLENCY 799 w^rnrt ; and wpamn boa the sense of exacting both In cluaa. Greek and in Lk 19^ f EV ' require '). Agere is similarly uaed in LaU, and Diit;hl have oeen chusen by Jerome here. Exactly is found 2 Es 16* ' the Lord will exactly search out ' (scrutinando scrutiiiabit), and Sir 10-^ ' declare liis knowledge exactly ' {io ditpi/3e(?). The sense is the same as 'exact' above, i.e. 'precisely'; cf. Sbaks. Temp. 1. ii. 499— But then exactly do All pointa of my oommand.' J. Hastings.