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Excede, Exceid, v. Also: exced, excead; exeid; accede, acceid. [ME. excede (Chaucer), OF. exceder, L. excēdĕre.]

1. tr. To exceed in quantity or number; to be greater or more than.(a) 1389 Cart. Cambuskenneth 261.
His maill and his vnlawis … excedit the price of the catell 1399 Holyrood Chart. 113.
The fiffe mark that is contenit in the chartir of the said Davi excedand the some contend in the chartir of the said religious men c1420 Wynt. iv. 1824.
Thai al sal noucht excede Thre hundyr yhere wythoutyn dreide ?1438 Alex. ii. 658.
Als far as sey excedes land 1497 Reg. Privy S. I. 19/1.
A schip of lxxx of tun or within, or schippis nocht excedand that byrth c1515 Asl. MS. I. 241/24.
Thair was with him his brother … & na ma lordis and thai excedit nocht of gud men vj 1554 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 206.
[The council] ordanis the said thesaurer to by xii elnis weluot … sua it excedis nocht iii^xx li. 1622-6 Bisset II. 70/5.
The lybelled summonis … nocht exceding half ane throuch of paper, ij s.(b) c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4794.
Thare pardonis, and thare dispeinsationis, Thay do exceid sum temporall princis rent 1585 Reg. Great S. 292/1.
The said pensioun … without ony superplus … that may be alledgit to exceid the said pensioun 1588 King Cat. h vij.
Quhilk … makis the same to exeid the common ȝere of the sone be 19 dayes c 1655 Rep. Hist. MSS., Var. Coll. V. 165.
The greatest pryce payit for any darg did not exceid four schillings ten pence and tuo bodells 1661 Bamff Chart. 296.
The edifieing quherof not exceiding the worth and awaill of four hundreth markis(c) 1564 Prot. Bk. W. Cumming 21.
Gyf the sowme scho happynis to sustene … accedis the sowme of fyf hundreth merkis 1583 Reg. Episc. Brechin II. 346.
The ȝeirlie rentale will litill acceid ane hundreth threttie thre pundis

2. To go beyond; to pass the limits of.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xxvii. 1135.
Full gret foly it is To sper that manis wit excedis Ib. 1240.
Thai exced all mannis dowme c1420 Wynt. iv. 169.
Gyff ane wald set his wyll For lykyng mesoure tyll excede Ib. v. 5205. 1456 Hay I. 177/17.
He kepis his writt and wax, nocht excedand the termes of his assuraunce Ib. II. 126/14.
And he excede his houre [of eating] … he sall indispose his stomak 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 41.
Befoir thai passed Linlithgow, the erle Mortone, alane, excedit that number dowble(b) a1500 Bk. Chess 1757.
To be content of gudlie sustinens And nocht exceid thair lyffis sufficians 1558 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 113.
Oure … lytle tractive sulde exceid the boundis, and grow uto ane gret werk a1570-86 Arbuthnot Maitl. F. xxx. 103.
Thocht it exceid our dull intelligence Off everie thing the ressoun till invent a1570-86 Maitl. F. ciii. 17.
Exceid not thi degre Ib. cvii. 7.
Exceid in no thing thyne estait 1615 Mure Misc. P. viii. 17.
Quhose sueitnes … Exceids the bounds of natour

3. To surpass or outdo in excellence, rank, etc.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xli. 21.
To luf hyme he is swetare, & al grace is excedand c1420 Wynt. v. 873.
He excedyt off largeas All thai that before hym was Ib. 1353.
Gyff that thai grewe swa off walu … That thai war lyk thame till excede 1456 Hay II. 13/17.
All knycht … suld excede otheris in nobless of vertues as he dois in nobless of honouris 1490 Irland Mir. I. 58/27.
Sene the wertu of this last element is sa gret, and the water in … wertu and nobilite excedis it 1513 Doug. viii. ix. 24.
Till Eneas … thai gaue A gentill steyd excedand all the laif(b) a1500 Seven S. 714.
His eme had dreid That his newo suld him exceid In craft and geir a1568 Scott xiv. 12.
Behaild how far … topas, marbill, or margareit, Exceidis the barrat stonis in the streit a1585 Arbuthnot Maitl. Q. xxxv. 90.
The papingo in hew exceidis birdis all a1585 Montg. Ib. lxiv. 42.
Quhose nobill birth and royall bluid Hir better nature dois exceid

4. intr. a. To go beyond bounds or limits; to act in excess. 1437 Reg. Dunferm. 285.
Bath the partis sel kepe lauchful stent & noth excede 1456 Hay I. 291/26.
The brukle mankynde that ever is redy to excede in vicis Ib. II. 36/24.
That he nouthir excede, na be our lache in his dede 1474 Acta Aud. 32/2.
The said schereffis has nocht faltit nor excedit in the executioune of ther office a1500 Bk. Chess 380.
Am I nocht set to fer in sic misdeid, Bot thow art set to gar me thus exceid? a1585 Maitl. Q. lx. 26.
In falset thay excell in kynd, In wordes thay maist of all exceid

b. To be in excess. 1456 Hay II. 98/10.
Mekle lauchter … engenderis vilipensioun and lychtlynes quhen it excedis c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxii. 75.
To gar his cruell pane exceid Thai leit him fall [etc.] 1562-3 Winȝet II. 46/30.
That the mysterie of the Trinitie exceid nocht in numbir