Obs. [f. as prec. + -URE.] The action of exhausting; the state of being exhausted; also, an instance of this.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xx. (1632), 970. Yet was he the feebler … by reason of so fresh exhaustures.
1687. N. Johnston, Assur. Abby Lands, 54. Alledging the exhausture of the Exchequer by the late War.
1778. Hist. Eur., in Ann. Reg., 105/2. So great an exhausture of blood and treasure. Ibid. The state of debility and exhausture brought on by our civil contest. Ibid. (1786), 174/1. Religious prejudices are … wearing away in France, and … it will not require a very long succession of years for their entire exhausture.
