Part 4076

<hw>Ex*pos"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who exposes or discloses.</def>

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<hw>Ex`po*si"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>expositio</ets>, fr. <ets>exponere</ets>, <ets>expositum</ets>: cf. F. <ets>exposition</ets>. See <er>Expound</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>You know the law; your <b>exposition</b> Hath been most sound. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; <as>as, an easterly <ex>exposition</ex>; an <ex>exposition</ex> to the sun.</as></def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Arbuthnot.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; <as>as, the Paris <ex>Exposition</ex> of 1878</as>.</def> <mark>[A Gallicism]</mark>

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<hw>Ex*pos"i*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Serving to explain; expository.</def>

<i>Bp. Pearson.</i>

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<hw>Ex*pos"i*tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. See <er>Expound</er>.]</ety> <def>One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator.</def>

<i>Bp. Horsley.</i>

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<hw>Ex*pos"i*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.</def>

<blockquote>A glossary or <b>expository</b> index to the poetical writers. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Expost facto, &or; Expostfacto</h1> <Xpage=529>

<hw><hw>Ex"post` fac"to</hw>, &or; <hw>Ex"post`fac"to</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>. <ety>[L., from what is done afterwards.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective.</def>

<cs><col>Ex post facto law</col>, <cd>a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true application, as employed in American law, it relates only to crimes, and signifies a law which retroacts, by way of criminal punishment, upon that which was not a crime before its passage, or which raises the grade of an offense, or renders an act punishable in a more severe manner that it was when committed. <i>Ex post facto laws<i> are held to be contrary to the fundamental principles of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States.</cd></cs>

<i>Burrill. Kent.</i>

<h1>Expostulate</h1> <Xpage=529>

<hw>Ex*pos"tu*late</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Expostulated</er><tt>(?)</tt>;<tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Expostulating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>expostulatus</ets>, p.p. of <ets>expostulare</ets> to demand vehemently; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>postulare</ets> to ask, require. See <er>Postulate</er>.]</ety> <def>To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by <i>with</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Men <b>expostulate</b> with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong. <i>Jowett (Thuc. ).</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To remonstrate; reason. See <er>Remonstrate</er>.</syn>

<h1>Expostulate</h1> <Xpage=529>

<hw>Ex*pos"tu*late</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To discuss; to examine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>