Obs. Also 7 exhauste. [ad. L. exhaust-us, pa. pple. of exhaurīre: see next.]
A. pa. pple. (in various senses of the vb.).
1523. Wolsey, in Fiddes, Life, II. 114. The enemy exhaust of money.
1540–1. Elyot, Image Gov. (1549), 123. Charges enforced, haue exhaust, the more parte of your substaunce.
1627. May, Lucan, VIII. (1631), O iij b They … when their quivers are exhaust, must flee.
1649. Lanc. Tracts (Chetham Soc.), 278. Most men’s estates being … now almost quite exhauste by the present scarsity.
1654. R. Codrington, trans. Ivstine’s Hist., 121. The Kingdom exhausted of Souldiers, did much distract him.
1708. J. Philips, Cyder, I. 124. When the alien compost is exhaust, Its Native Poverty again prevails.
B. ppl. a. = EXHAUSTED ppl. a. in various senses.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. I. vi. (1676), 39/1. Intemperate, dissolute, exhaust through riot.
1624. F. White, Repl. Fisher, 555. Contemning the merits of Christ, accounting the same drie and exhaust.
1627. trans. Bacon’s Life & Death (1638), 185. The eager Flames … doe drie Bodies, and render them exhaust and Saplesse.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, III. II. xliii. His brain In time would be exhaust and void of wit.
1708. J. Philips, Cyder, II. 55. Reject the apple-cheese tho quite exhaust.
