a. Obs. Also 7 exh-. [ad. L. ex(s)ilientem, pr. pple. of ex(s)ilīre to spring out or forth, f. ex- out + salīre to spring.] That leaps forth or springs up; exulting, bounding; active, alert.
1669. Address to Hopeful Young Gentry England, 77. He might have the high spring-tides of exhilient Joy enlarging their channels.
a. 1711. Ken, Christophil, Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 478. Th’ exilient Strings … leap up into Chords. Ibid., Edmund, ibid. II. 20. God’s Will … you all live exilient to fulfil. Ibid., Hymnotheo, ibid. III. 84. The Saints exilient Dust from Tombs uncas’d, Shall into Limbs be mutually embrac’d.
