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Definition of Expository
1. Adjective. Serving to expound or set forth. "Clean expository writing"
Definition of Expository
1. a. Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.
Definition of Expository
1. Adjective. Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition. ¹
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Definition of Expository
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expository
Literary usage of Expository
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"In the former case it may be styled a book of expository jurisprudence ; in the
latter, a book of censorial jurisprudence: or, in other words, ..."
2. English Composition in Theory and Practice by Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Henry Noble MacCracken, Alfred Arundel May, Thomas Goddard Wright (1912)
"expository DESCRIPTION The selections just cited bring out clearly the distinction
between expository and suggestive description. ..."
3. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1869)
"LMOST every preacher one meets, if asked whether he often -£*- makes expository
discourses, will answer, " No; I have long believed there ought to be more ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1866)
"expository Preaching. ARTICLE IV.—expository PREACHING. ON the subject of
expository, or what we may better perhaps call commentary preaching, ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"His expository works, which are Calvinistic, have been praised in modern times.
His first publication was ' An Essay concerning the Assurance of God's Love ..."
6. Current Discussions in Theology by Chicago Theological Seminary (1887)
"But throughout all these expository sermons, the author gives abundant indications
of ripe Biblical scholarship, keen perception, and fine analytical ..."
7. The Office and Work of the Christian Ministry by James Mason Hoppin (1869)
"expository development. The expository sermon constitutes, ... expository sermons
may be of two kinds : (a.) A simple exposition of the several clauses of a ..."
8. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1837)
"Annotations to the Booh of the New Covenant; with an expository Preface. ...
The expository Preface, we regard as a masterpiece in the department of ..."
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