Thesaurus: exact

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1. a. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.
2. a. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.
3. a. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
4. a. To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.
5. v. i. To practice exaction.
6. adj. marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact
7. adj. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct
8. adj. lacking compromising or mitigating elements
9. v. claim as due or just
10. v. take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
11. 1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts. I took a great pains to make out the exact truth. Jowett (Thucyd. ) 2. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact. "I see thou art exact of taste." Milton. 3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict. An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason. Shak. To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one. He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. Luke. iii. 13. Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last Dryden. My designs Exact me in another place. Massinger. To practice exaction. [R.] The anemy shall not exact upon him. Ps. lxxxix. 22.
12. To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as aright; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel toyield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none isdue; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction;as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.Luke. iii. 13.Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at lastDryden.My designs Exact me in another place. Massinger.