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expository, a. and n.|ɛkˈspɒzɪtərɪ|
[ad. med.L. expositōri-us (Boethius), f. expositor: see expositor. Cf. OF. expositoire.]
A. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, exposition; serving to set forth the meaning (of something); containing an exposition; explanatory. expository syllogism, etc.: (see quots. 1628, 1860).
1628T. Spencer Logick 262 First they call this forme an Expository Syllogisme..because the third argument is as it were an exposition. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 251 Name me one place..that more evidently speaks in an Expository way of any Text. 1756Johnson Pref. Abridged Dict., This book may serve as a glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. 1850Grote Greece ii. lxxiii. (1862) VI. 402 To be able to elude inconvenient texts..by expository ingenuity. 1860Veitch & Mansel Hamilton's Logic I. 263 note, The instance selected is called the expositum (τὸ ἐκτεθὲν); and hence singular propositions are called expository. 1867Mill Inaug. Addr. 38, I could wish that it [instruction] were more expository, less polemical, and above all less dogmatic. 1884Ld. Selborne in Law Rep. 25 Chanc. Div. 493 Are the words ‘or in contemplation’ simply expository of the word ‘upon’?
2. Comb. † expository-wise, after the manner of an exposition; = expositorily adv.
1600Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 422 Whereas exegetically or expositorie-wise it is now more largely amplified.
B. n. = expositor 2 b.
1751in Chambers Cycl.
Hence exˈpositorily adv., in an expository manner; by way of exposition, explanatorily.
a1631Donne Ess. (1651) 66 Of these words..I will expositorily say nothing. |