EXACT Copy link • EXACT 1. v. exigere (the proper word, to exact promises, debts [nomina, etc.] , the performances of duties, wages [mercedem], etc.; exigere poenam, Ov., Sen.; gravia piacula ab aliquo, Liv.: mostly a te; also, ex te, Cic.; exigere poenam alicui, Ov., †): ☞ Sometimes a substantive after “exact” may be translated by ut with subjunctive: to exact an answer from you, exigere cogereque ut respondeas (Cic.): to exact your attention to what I say, hanc exigere operam, ut audias me (Cic.): persequi (to exact by legal measures; e.g., debts, ab aliquo): to exact (a tax, etc.) with great severity, (pecunias imperatas, etc.) acerbissime exigere: to exact punishment of anybody, poenas ab aliquo repetere, petere, expetere (Cic.), exigere (Ov.), sumere (Verg.), capere de aliquo (Liv.), in aliquem (Curt.), alicui irrogare (Quint.); poena aliquem afficere (Cic.). Demand, require, Vid: Extort, Vid. 2. Accurate, Vid: Careful, attentive, diligens: attentus: cautus ac diligens: curioeus in aliqua re: restrictus: attentus ad rem (exact and careful in money matters). To be exact in anything, diligentem, diligentem et attentum esse in re: diligenter, accurate versari in re (to act or proceed exactly, and with attention, in a single ease): diligentem esse alicujus rei (habitually exact in the conduct of anything). Punctual, Vid: Neither more nor less, ipse: at the exact moment of my departure, sub ipsa profectione.