exposit


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exposit

(ɪksˈpɒzɪt)
vb (tr)
to expound; to demonstrate clearly
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Verb1.exposit - state; "set forth one's reasons"
elaborate, expatiate, expound, lucubrate, dilate, flesh out, exposit, enlarge, expand - add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
describe, depict, draw - give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"
premise - set forth beforehand, often as an explanation; "He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand"
2.exposit - add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
clarify, clear up, elucidate - make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death"
detail - provide details for
exposit, set forth, expound - state; "set forth one's reasons"
illustrate, instance, exemplify - clarify by giving an example of
particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize, specify - be specific about; "Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?"
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References in classic literature ?
First he had attacked the literature of mysticism, and had done it exceeding well; and, next, he had successfully supplied the very literature he had exposited, thus proving himself to be that rare genius, a critic and a creator in one.
"See," Collins exposited. "He's got confidence in me.
Also, he exposited the theory, as ancient as priests and rulers, that priests and rulers must work together in the orderly governance of the people.
"It's only what you'd expect from a rich poet that'd trip up a foot-racer at an Irish picnic," Billy exposited.
And all the time Watson exposited the way Patsy Horan had done it.
''The Plea on Oath'' is a debut exposit legal crime fiction on miscarriage of justice in our modern world, and the judiciary, executive and the legislative arms of government play in it.
The standard Solow growth model--which we will exposit in discrete time--relates output to the input of homogenous capital and homogenous labor:
In this essay, I exposit what JuD says about these non-Muslims who live among Pakistani Muslims, including Ahmadis, about which the organization is generally silent.
Judges, however, have the duty to declare and exposit what the fundamental law already is, as announced by Alabama's Constitutional Convention, based on the text and history of the Declaration of Rights.
Blocking time model was used to exposit the headway of signalling systems as well as the headway between trains which are running in different signalling systems.
(110) This same genius is invoked at the beginning of Idea "in order to write the history of humanity," which could only be a novel, (111) because geniuses "do not 'exposit' that Idea; they show it without bringing it back to a concept" (Lyotard, Enthusiasm 51-53).