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Ex-libris for Amadei Lulin. A library interior, in a frame with two half-figures, Truth and Love, on each side. At the bottom four putti with books and at the top the coat of arms and motto of Amadei Lulin.
Ex-libris for Amadei Lulin. A library interior, in a frame with two half-figures, Truth and Love, on each side. At the bottom four putti with books and at the top the coat of arms and motto of Amadei Lulin.
  1. (adj) ex
    out of fashion "a suit of rather antique appearance","demode (or outmoded) attire","outmoded ideas"
  2. (n) ex
    the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet
  3. (n) ex
    a woman who was formerly a particular man's wife "all his exes live in Texas"
  4. (n) ex
    a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband
Illustrations
Hoodia gordonii (Masson) Sweet ex Decne; named after Gordon by Masson.
Hoodia gordonii
Album with 21 prints, a title print and an ex-libris on 23 album pages. The prints were designed and engraved by William Blake and based on the Book of Job.
Album with 21 prints, a title print and an ex-libris on 23 album pages. The prints were designed and engraved by William Blake and based on the Book of Job.
Ex-Empress Hermine, en profile, standing on a veranda with balustrade. Under the signature and date in purple pencil on the right
Ex-Empress Hermine, en profile, standing on a veranda with balustrade. Under the signature and date in purple pencil on the right
Sheet with 16 scenes from the Hundred Fables (Centum fabulae ex antiquis autoribus delectae, et carminibus explicatae) by Gabriele Faerno. Below each picture a title and a four-line verse. Numbered top right: 18.
Sheet with 16 scenes from the Hundred Fables (Centum fabulae ex antiquis autoribus delectae, et carminibus explicatae) by Gabriele Faerno. Below each picture a title and a four-line verse. Numbered top right: 18.
Sheet with 20 scenes from the Hundred Fables (Centum fabulae ex antiquis autoribus delectae, et carminibus explicatae) by Gabriele Faerno. Below each image a two-line verse.
Sheet with 20 scenes from the Hundred Fables (Centum fabulae ex antiquis autoribus delectae, et carminibus explicatae) by Gabriele Faerno. Below each image a two-line verse.
A group of men, ex-prisoners, leave the prison. Other men are waiting for them, including a number of police officers.
A group of men, ex-prisoners, leave the prison. Other men are waiting for them, including a number of police officers.
Medical examination of an ex-convict from a concentration camp after his return to the Netherlands. He comes from an improvised room, next to him a man with a sleeve band saying: Welcome to Amsterdam.
Medical examination of an ex-convict from a concentration camp after his return to the Netherlands. He comes from an improvised room, next to him a man with a sleeve band saying: Welcome to Amsterdam.
Ex libris by book collector Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Its coat of arms and its mottoes are set in an ornamental frame. Ex libris pasted on cover page. This print is part of an album.
Ex libris by book collector Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Its coat of arms and its mottoes are set in an ornamental frame. Ex libris pasted on cover page. This print is part of an album.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Ex
    eks used adjectively in words like ex-emperor, to signify late. See Prefixes in Appendix.
Quotations
Ignazio Silone
The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
Ignazio Silone
I'm only upset that I'm not a widow. [On her ex-husband Tom Arnold]
Roseanne
Usage in the news

Corzine, MF Global's ex-chief, said he didn't know where clients' money went. nytimes.com

NHL NOTES Ex-Flyers: Only brotherly love for Philly. phillyburbs.com

Friend of the Clog Brian James Kirk is running an interesting series over on ex-Inky columnist Tom Ferrick's Metropolis Web site this week, looking at the widespread use of surveillance video cameras by Philadelphia police. citypaper.net

Sotheby's to sell Mick Jagger's letters to ex-lover Marsha Hunt, inspiration for ' Brown Sugar '. vancouversun.com

Ex-Student Sues Brown Over Rape Accusation. nytimes.com

Bodyguard stole $18.8M worth of diamonds from Sultan of Brunei 's ex-wife, UK court hears. foxnews.com

The Sultan of Brunei 's ex-wife has accused a female bodyguard of stealing £12 million ($18.8 million) worth of rare diamonds from her London home and replacing them with worthless replicas. foxnews.com

Ex-basketball star Chamique Holdsclaw arrested. ajc.com

Some women struggle with addictions to shoes or shopping, but ex-Pussycat Dolls frontwoman Nicole Scherzinger now admits for the first time that her struggle was with bulimia . bnq.com

Some women struggle with addictions to shoes or shopping, but ex- Pussycat Dolls frontwoman Nicole Scherzinger now admits for the first time that her struggle was with bulimia . ifc.com

Acquaintances of a Scranton man on trial for arson and murder testified this morning that William Robert Woods told him he wanted to burn down his ex-girlfriend's home. thetimes-tribune.com

A grand jury recently indicted an Athens man on charges he burglarized the home of an ex-girlfriend, assaulted her relative, then tried to burn the home down last month. onlineathens.com

A Maine man has been convicted of trying to burn down his ex-girlfriend's house while she and her grandparents were asleep last December. abi.tv

Ex-pitcher Busby unlocks mystery of Yu Darvish. dallasnews.com

Twittering Ex-New Yorker Writer Dan Baum's Wife, Former Martha Gellhorn, Hides Light Under Bushel . observer.com

Usage in scientific papers

Exi := Ex/(1 − µi )Ex for some x near xi as in (0.3), where µi is the local monodromy around xi .) In the following theorem, H∗(U, E ) is the standard homology associated to the local system on U = X \ D .
Homology for irregular connections

The elements eX therefore give a basis of kL consisting of pairwise orthogonal idempotents, i.e., e2 X = eX and eX eY = 0 for X 6= Y .
Semigroups, rings, and Markov chains

If w is not generic, then this formula still makes sense, but one has to sum the eX having a common value of λX in order to get the primitive idempotents of R[w]; the eX themselves may not lie in R[w].
Semigroups, rings, and Markov chains

Indeed, this is trivial for x ≥ 0 (since ex ≥ +x and e−x ≤ ex ), while for x < 0 we have ex ≤ +x.
Perron-Frobenius spectrum for random maps and its approximation

The added strata are as follows: allowing TpQ to become a flex (but not a hyperflex) point yields the pro jective stratum of type E7 over the identity element.
Compactifications defined by arrangements I: the ball quotient case

Usage in literature

The rhythm of the second measure in Ex. "Lessons in Music Form" by Percy Goetschius

Yes ma'am, I have not had it hard like lots of ex-slaves. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves" by Work Projects Administration

I am Dom Corria Antonio De Sylva, ex-President of the Republic of Brazil. "The Stowaway Girl" by Louis Tracy

Ex eo igitur et Lysito est is Hercules, quem concertasse cum Apolline de tripode accepimus. "A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)" by Jacob Bryant

Dunno ob any ex-slaves votin' er holdin' office ob any kin. "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves" by Work Projects Administration

You can't afford to let me tell the Highmarket folk that you two are ex-convicts! "The Borough Treasurer" by Joseph Smith Fletcher

At no time does the ex-Ranger stand in need of much sleep, even after the most protracted toil. "The Lone Ranche" by Captain Mayne Reid

I think it was one of the ex-President's party who walked along side of the ex-President. "The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt" by Oliver Remey

The wrath of the Vatican could only be appeased by ex-communicating him from the Church. "The Magnificent Montez" by Horace Wyndham

I am to meet Prince Buelow, ex-Chancellor, to-morrow and may fish up something interesting. "Face to Face with Kaiserism" by James W. Gerard

Usage in poetry
But I, ex-Paradised,
The shoulder of your Christ
Find high
To lean thereby.
An' ex-cobbler Jackson.
Whose fist hath not wax on,
Since Kit, stuffed wi' bother;
Tramps leeter than leather.
("If you would learn the woes that vex
Poor TANTALUS, down there,
Pray borrow of Papa an ex-
Purgated LEMPRIERE.)
I've talked with rulers, in and ex,
With working man and boss;
Mayor Valentine! they you unsex—
You surely are a horse.
Piacular may she not be,
And thus escape the eternal pyre,
No pirate's heart would dance with glee
Like mine, to see that maid--Ex-Pier.
For the style of Party Government, in vogue about that time,
Was inclined to lead to discord -- not to mention down-right crime.
For boomerangs and waddies were used freely in debate;
And, as a rule, ex-Ministers were spoken of as "late."