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单词 expository
释义

expositoryadj.n.

/ɛkˈspɒzɪtəri/
Etymology: < medieval Latin expositōrius (Boethius), < expositor : see expositor n. Compare Old French expositoire.
A. adj.
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, a1856).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adjective]
explanativea1500
expositive1535
resolutory1567
interpretative1569
expounding1571
illustrating1589
explanatory1600
explicative1602
explicatory1606
expository1628
clarifying1630
illustrative1643
luciferous1648
omnilucent1651
explaining?1683
illustratorya1734
elucidatory1774
elucidative1822
irradiativea1834
expositional1845
resolvent1856
enucleating1862
expositionary1882
luminant1891
interpreting1892
clarificatory1945
FYI1973
1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 262 First they call this forme an Expository Syllogisme..because the third argument is as it were an exposition.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 251 Name me one place..that more evidently speaks in an Expository way of any Text.
1756 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (Abstr. ed.) Pref. This book may serve as a glossary or expository index to the poetical writers.
1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece IX. ii. lxxiii. 340 To be able to elude inconvenient texts..by expository ingenuity.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. xiv. 263 (note) The instance selected is called the expositum, (τὸ ἐκτεθὲν); and hence singular propositions are called expository.
1867 J. S. Mill Inaug. Addr. St. Andrews 38 I could wish that it [instruction] were more expository, less polemical, and above all less dogmatic.
1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 25 493 Are the words ‘or in contemplation’ simply expository of the word ‘upon’?
B. n.
= expositor n. 2b.
ΚΠ
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Expositor, or Expository, a Title some Writers have given to a little Kind of Dictionaries, or vocabularies, expounding, or explaining the Meaning of the hard Words of the Language.

Compounds

expository-wise adv. Obsolete after the manner of an exposition; = expositorily adv. at Derivatives.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adverb]
expositively1571
expository-wise1600
explicatively1609
expositorilya1631
accountably1646
illustratively1646
explanatorily1657
luciferouslya1682
explicably1791
explainingly1836
explanatively1842
it's this way1851
illuminatingly1891
1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 422 Whereas exegetically or expositorie-wise it is now more largely amplified.

Derivatives

exˈpositorily adv. in an expository manner; by way of exposition, explanatorily.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adverb]
expositively1571
expository-wise1600
explicatively1609
expositorilya1631
accountably1646
illustratively1646
explanatorily1657
luciferouslya1682
explicably1791
explainingly1836
explanatively1842
it's this way1851
illuminatingly1891
a1631 J. Donne Ess. Divinity (1651) 66 Of these words..I will expositorily say nothing.
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adj.n.1600
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