exposit

[ik-spoz-it]

verb (used with object)

1. to expound, as a theory, cause, or the like.

Word History and Origins

Origin of exposit¹

1880–85; < Latin expositus, past participle of expōnere; expose, expound

Example Sentences

You have to start with Reel 2, he exposited, which is full of the informative dialogue that brings the audience up to speed.

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"Hieroglyphics" is Arthur Machen's theory of literature, brilliantly exposited by that "cyclical mode of discoursing" that was affected by Coleridge.

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Later, when the two sages were obliviously engrossed in a heated battle as to whether Berlioz or Beethoven had exposited in their compositions the deeper intellect, Graham managed his escape.

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The Billow wasn't paying yet, O'Hara explained; and just as convincingly had he exposited that there was only one man in San Francisco capable of writing the serial and that man Kit Bellew.

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The Billow wasn't paying yet, O'Hara explained; and just as convincingly had he exposited that there was only one man in San Francisco capable of writing the serial, and that man Kit Bellew.

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