Obs. rare. [ad. L. excēdent-em, pr. pple. of excēdĕre: see EXCEED.] a. adj. used absol. That which exceeds. b. sb. [after Fr. excédant.] The portion or quantity in excess; excess.
1655–60. Stanley, Hist. Philos., III. II. 99. The first excesse and defect is in two, in the excedent and the deficient.
1811. J. Black, trans. Humboldt’s Polit. Ess., I. 108. The population would double in … two hundred and fourteen years, if no war … were to diminish the annual excedent of the births.
