Crossword clues for expound
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expound \Ex*pound"\ ([e^]ks*pound"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Expounding.] [OE. exponen, expounen, expounden, fr. L. exponere to set out, expose, expound; ex out + ponere to put: cf. OE. expondre, expondre. See Position.]
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To lay open; to expose to view; to examine. [Obs.]
He expounded both his pockets.
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To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle.
Expound this matter more fully to me.
--Bunyan.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old French espondre "expound (on), set forth, explain," from Latin exponere "put forth, expose, exhibit; set on shore, disembark; offer, leave exposed, reveal, publish," from ex- "forth" (see ex-) + ponere "to put, place" (see position (n.)); with intrusive -d developing in French (compare sound (n.1)); the usual Middle English form was expoune. Related: Expounded; expounding.\n\n'In Englissh,' quod Pacience, 'it is wel hard, wel to expounen, ac somdeel I shal seyen it, by so thow understonde.'
["Piers Plowman," late 14c.]
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To lay open; to expose to view; to examine or exposit. 2 To lay open the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length; to clear of obscurity; to interpret.
WordNet
Usage examples of "expound".
January, he had an opportunity to expound his unorthodox views to Hitler personally at a dinner given for a number of new corps commanders in Berlin on February 17.
Piffelheimer had a perfect opportunity to expound on the value of perfect thermal insulation, but she decided to stay silent.
A Browning in journalese, his aim was to see the bright side of everything, to expound partial evil as universal good.
Constitution and created by the authority of the people to determine, expound, and enforce the law.
Eighteen centuries have left us little to expound upon the lore of Scripture or the life of Christ.
They are men of principle, and are ready to expound their principle and to defend it in argument.
But Shakespeare is still so live a mind that it is vain to try to expound him by selected texts, or to pin him to a mosaic of quotations from his book.
I was about to expound these theories to Poirot, when his own words distracted me.
He wanted to learn every last detail about his new property, and she liked nothing better than to expound upon the many excellent qualities of the estate.
As American Bar Association president and later clean of New York University Law School, Vanderbilt had been able merely to expound upon his theories on the administration of justice.
I would have expected him to expound upon the events, explaining them with his great storehouse of knowledge and wisdom.
I know not, therefore, whether as his disciple I can faithfully expound his views, having assimilated them in the first instance so as to color them with my own.
It is proposed that all religions taught and practiced throughout the British Empire shall be represented at the conference, including the Christians, Muhammadans, Buddhists, Brahma Somaj, Theosophists and others, and that each one in turn shall have at its disposal a day or part of a day for a meeting to expound its principles and deal with its organization and objects.
We should, while endeavoring to uphold loyally and expound conscientiously our social and moral principles in all their essence and purity, in all their bearings upon the divers phases of human society, insure that no direct reference or particular criticism in our exposition of the fundamentals of the Faith would tend to antagonize any existing institution, or help to identify a purely spiritual movement with the base clamorings and contentions of warring sects, factions and nations.
He attempted to expound it with Greek ideas, and not only called the Greeks to the Old Testament and the Gospel, but also introduced the Gospel as a leaven into the religious and philosophic world of Greek ideas.