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- Exposition - n. - The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
- Exposition - n. - The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.
- Exposition - n. - Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun.
- Exposition - n. - A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878.
- Nomography - n. - A treatise on laws; an exposition of the form proper for laws.
- Explanation - n. - A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.
- Exposition - n. - Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun.
- Theory - n. - An exposition of the general or abstract principles of any science; as, the theory of music.
- Rationale - a. - An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves.
- Midrash - n. - A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.
- Halacha - n. - The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.
- Prospectus - n. - A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work.
- Bible - n. - A book with an authoritative exposition of some topic, respected by many who are experts in the field.
- Exposition - n. - A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878.
- Zend - n. - Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written.
- Expose - v. t. - A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.
- Postillation - n. - The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.
- Interpretation - n. - The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
- Excursus - n. - A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.
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