expositionn.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 218/1 Exposytion, exposition.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 819/2 No time of taryenge betwene their [angels'] synne and their exposicion.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvi. 135 To disburden a common weale of vnnecessary number..by exposition..of enfantes.

1654 R. Codrington tr. Justinus Hist. 8 Hearing of the exposition of this royall Infant.

1747 Orig. Hum. Appetites i. ⁋5 in Parr Metaph. Tracts 18th C. (1837) The exposition of children without distinction..either of family or sex.

1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals I. i. 47 The murder or exposition of the children of poor parents.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. Comm. 65.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar xvi. §2 The Synagogue had been thrown out to an inglorious Exposition and Contempt.

1788 Trifler xviii. 245 The country 'squires dreaded the exposition of their rustic conversation to the ordeal of her criticism.

1788 Trifler xxiv. 318 The exposition of these absurdities..should be forwarded by every man of sense.

1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal I. 4 There happened to be an exposition of the holy wafer.

1835 R. Browning Paracelsus iv. 128 Grown Grey in the exposition of such antics.

1836 New Monthly Mag. 46 3 The practice of exposition on the pillory.

1844 A. W. Pugin Gloss. Eccl. Ornament 182 The Exposition of any Relic without an authentication has been strictly prohibited.

1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 331 The Host after High Mass (the Mass of Exposition) is placed on a throne above the altar..Relics and images must be removed from the Altar of Exposition.

1851 Illustr. London News 29 Mar. 259/1 This Exposition usually takes place annually in the Louvre.

1851 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 5 Aug. (1954) I. 358 She seems to prefer London... A glance or two at the Exposition she thinks would do her no harm.

1868 G. A. Sala Notes & Sketches Paris Exhib. ii. 15 The Universal Exposition of 1867; that, you know..is the official designation.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 270 Paint!—the last Exposition warrants me, Plenty of people must ply brush with toes.

1879 W. D. Howells Lady of Aroostook (1883) II. 126 Typical villages of the different civilisations at the international expositions.

1891 Soc. of Arts, Title of Paper 11 Dec. 9 The World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893.

1460 Earl of Marche in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 10 We have charged your servant..for to declare..certayne things..Wherefore we beseche your graciouse lordeschip..to here him in exposicion of the same, and to his relacion to yeve ful feith and credence.

1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric II. 78 In the conduct and exposition of his arguments, he [Cicero] may and ought to be imitated.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 63 Clear exposition was the only thing needed to convert him to the new theory.

1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Macc. ii. 13 These same thingis weren put in discripciouns and exposiciouns [L. commentariis] of Neemye.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxx. f. cxl^v For the which dede after the Exposycion of some Auctours, the sayd Erle was punysshed.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Exposition, commentarium.

1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion ii. i. 180 If we look to the exposition of the objects of eating already given.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xvi. 311 The author of the theory has at various times published expositions of his views.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. i. 10 Of the great expositions of feudal custom, most are from Northern France.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 504 A question..that does not belong to the present anatomical exposition.

1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint xxiii. 178 Every fugue must commence with what is called ‘the exposition’ of the subject and answer. By this is simply meant the first entry of the subject, answer, and countersubject.

1880 F. A. G. Ouseley in Grove Dict. Music I. 568/2 After the exposition is completed by the successive and regular entry of every part.

1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 630/2 In forms of the harmonic order the term Exposition is commonly used of the first half of a movement in Binary form, because that part contains the statement of the two principal subjects.

1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era vii. 67 The exposition of the first is a perfect example of demoniac explosion, while, in the first movement of the C-major Symphony the exposition is a piece of inexorable consummation.

1959 Collins Mus. Encycl. 230/1 Exposition, the statement of the musical material on which a movement is based... In a movement in sonata form it..consists in the presentation of the principal thematic material partly in the tonic key and partly in a subsidiary key or keys.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 7 Specialy to gader eld exposiciones vpon scripture into o colleccion.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 553/1 In his exposicion vpon the first pistle of saint John.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 107 The reading of such expositions of Scriptures as are writ by..sincere followers of Christ.

1685 A. Lovell tr. R. Simon Crit. Hist. Relig. Eastern Nations xv. 149 They have..Expositions on those Books.

1773 H. Chapone Lett. Improvem. Mind I. 66 The Prophecies..you had better..read..with a good exposition.

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. ii. f. 4^v There be two parts of Logike, Exposition of the nature of argumentes, and Disposition of the same.

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. ii. 6 Exposition, the first part of Logike, declareth the particular affection and nature of every severall argument.

1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xii. 102 Quantity is determined two wayes; One, by the Sense, when some sensible Object is set before it..which way of Determining is called Exposition.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. xiv. 263 (note) The term exposition (ἔκθεσις) is employed by Aristotle, and by most subsequent logicians, to denote the selection of an individual instance whose qualities may be perceived by sense..in order to prove a general relation..apprehended by the intellect.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxiv. 12 It [sc. a declaration] is called an Exposition..when the evolution of a notion is continued through several explications.