v. Obs. [f. L. exedĕre, f. ex- out + edĕre to eat.] trans. To eat out, corrode.
1669. Evelyn, Sylva (1776), 342. A bar of iron … exeded and consumed with Rust.
1752. Monthly Rev., Jan., 69. The antient piece of money … is not the least blurred or exeded.
1754. Lewis, in Phil. Trans., XLVIII. 688. All metallic substances, except gold, are exeded from platina by the simple acids.
