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/ɪkspˈaʊnd/ Listen

verb

Expound v. t. (past & past part. expounded; pres. part. expounding)

To lay open; to expose to view; to examine. (Obs.) "He expounded both his pockets."

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."

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Etymology of 'Expound'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Expound" Quotes from Famous Books

... so, Amine. If your strange art be in opposition to our holy faith, you expound the dream in conformity with the advice of ...

— The Phantom Ship • Frederick Marryat

... dearest friend, because I have not yet written to you about the "Ring of the Nibelung" at greater length. It is not my business to criticize and expound so extraordinary a work, for which later on I am resolved to do everything in my power in order to gain a proper place for it. I have always entreated you not to abandon the work, and am delighted by the perfection of your poetic workmanship. Almost every day ...

— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 • Francis Hueffer (translator)

... skill: whatso- euer, other, more curious, and lesse skilfull, do thinke, write, and do. Paraphrasis neuerthelesse hath good place in learning, but not, by myne opinion, for any scholer, but is onelie to be left to a perfite Master, eyther to expound openlie a good author withall, or to compare priuatelie, for his owne exercise, how some notable place of an excellent author, may ...

— The Schoolmaster • Roger Ascham

... wait On mortals!—especially those Who endeavour in eloquent prose To expound their ...

— The Scarlet Gown - being verses by a St. Andrews Man • R. F. Murray

... Quixote. But what says Monsieur du Miroir himself of his paternity and his fatherland? Not a word did he ever say about the matter; and herein, perhaps, lies one of his most especial reasons for maintaining such a vexatious mystery, that he lacks the faculty of speech to expound it. His lips are sometimes seen to move; his eyes and countenance are alive with shifting expression, as if corresponding by visible hieroglyphics to his modulated breath; and anon he will seem to pause with as satisfied an air as if he had been talking excellent sense. Good sense or ...

— Monsieur du Miroir (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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