EXPOSIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exposit mean? 

• EXPOSIT (verb)
  The verb EXPOSIT has 2 senses:

1. state

2. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

  Familiarity information: EXPOSIT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPOSIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they exposit    ... he / she / it exposits   
Past simple: exposited   
Past participle: exposited   
-ing form: expositing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

State

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

exposit; expound; set forth

Context example:

set forth one's reasons

Hypernyms (to "exposit" is one way to...):

dilate; elaborate; enlarge; expand; expatiate; exposit; expound; flesh out; lucubrate (add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exposit"):

depict; describe; draw (give a description of)

premise (set forth beforehand, often as an explanation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

exposition (a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

dilate; elaborate; enlarge; expand; expatiate; exposit; expound; flesh out; lucubrate

Context example:

She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation

Hypernyms (to "exposit" is one way to...):

clarify; clear up; elucidate (make clear and (more) comprehensible)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exposit"):

detail (provide details for)

exposit; expound; set forth (state)

exemplify; illustrate; instance (clarify by giving an example of)

particularise; particularize; specialise; specialize; specify (be specific about)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

exposition (an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse)

 Context examples 

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.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)