To pass or go beyond; to proceed beyond any given or supposed limit, measure or quantity, or beyond any thing else; used equally in a physical or moral sense. One piece of cloth exceeds the customary length or breadth; one man exceeds another in bulk, stature or weight; one offender exceeds another in villainy.

To surpass; to excel. Homer exceeded all men in epic poetry. Demosthenes and Cicero exceeded their contemporaries in oratory. King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. 7 Kings 10:23.

To go too far; to pass the proper bounds; to go over any given limit, number or measure. Forty stripes may he give him, and not exceed. Deuteronomy 25:3.

To bear the greater proportion; to be more or larger.