LekhoriLekhoriUrgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
2003, Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations, U.S. Department of Defence Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.
Demanding; requiring great effort.
Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.
Theſe Eyes, like Lampes, whoſe waſting Oyle is ſpent, / Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent.
The amount that is required.
From Latin exigēns, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”). Doublet of exigeant.
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[H]is enterprise / Marked out anew, its exigent of wit / Apportioned, she at liberty to sit / And scheme against the next emergence, […]
A writ in proceedings before outlawry.
They also make forthe writs of executions, and of seifin, writs of super seders, for appearance to exigents