Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗exactly
To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way. · To make desirable or necessary. · To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce; to visit.
Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect. · Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual. · Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict. · Such that the kernel of each morphism is the image of the preceding one.
From Latin exāctus (the verb via Middle English exact), perfect passive participle of exigō (“demand, claim as due; measure by a standard, weigh, test”), from ex (“out”) + agō (“drive”).
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