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Exploʹsion

means literally, driven out by clapping the hands (Latin, exploʹdoi.e. ex-plaudo); hence the noise made by clapping the hands, a report made by ignited gunpowder, etc.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Exile
Exit (Latin, he goes out)
Exodus
Exon
Exorbitant
Exoteric
Expectation Week
Experimental Philosophy
Experimentum Crucis (Latin)
Experto Crede
Explosion
Exponent
Exposé (French)
Express Train
Expressed Oils
Expression
Exquisite
Extensive
Exter
Extinct Species [since the time of man]
Extravagantēs Constitutionēs