- exigent
[exigent 词源字典]
- exigent: see exact
[exigent etymology, exigent origin, 英语词源] - exigent (adj.)
- 1660s, "urgent," a back-formation from exigency or else from Latin exigentem (nominative exigens), present participle of exigere "to demand; drive out, drive forth" (see exact (v.)).