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EXPOSTULA'TOR, f. One that debates with ano¬ 
ther without open rupture. 
EXPOS'TULATORY, adj. Containing expoftulation. 
'—This fable is a kind of an cxfofiulatory debase between 
bounty and ingratitude. L’EJlrange. 
EXPOSURE, f. The aft of expotingor fetting out to 
obfervation.—The ftate of being open to obfervation : 
When we have our naked frailties hid, 
That fuffer in expofure , let us meet. Shahefpeare. 
The ftate of being expos’d, or being liable to any thing: 
Determine on fome coiirfe, 
More than a wild expofure to each chance 
That darts i' th’ way before thee. Shakfpeare. 
The ftate of being in danger : 
Ajax fets Therfites 
To match us in comparifons with dirt: 
To weaken and djfcredit our expofure , 
How hard foever rounded in with danger. Shakfpeare. 
Expofition ; the fituation in which the fun or air is re¬ 
ceived.—The cold now advancing, fet fuch plants as will 
not endure the houfe, in pots, two or three inches lower 
than the’furface of fome bed, under a fouthern expofure. 
Evelyn. 
To EXPOU'ND, v. a. [expono , Lat.] To explain ; to 
clear; to interpret; to (hew the meaning of.— We expounded 
unto them all the Scriptures the things concerning him- 
felf. Luke xx iv. 27.—To examine; to lay open: a La- 
tinifm : 
He expounded both his pockets, 
And found a watch with rings and lockets. Hudibras, 
EXPOUN'DER, f. Explainer ; interpreter : 
The beft he was, 
And faithfulleft expounder of the laws. Dryden. 
To EXPRE'SS, v'. a. \_exprimo, exprejfus , Lat.] To 
copy ; to refemble ; to reprefent: 
So kids and whelps their fires and darns exprefs, 
And lo the great I meafured by the lels. Dryden. 
To reprefent by any of the imitative arts; as poetry, 
fculpture, painting: 
Each ficilful artift (hall exprefs thy form 
In animated gold. Smith. 
Toreprefent in words; to exhibit by language ; to utter; 
to declare : 
True wit is nature to advantage dreft, 
What oft was thought, but ne’er fo well exprejl. - 
Others for language all their care exprefs, 
And value books, as women men, for drefs. Pope. 
To fliew or make known in any manner: 
No longer (hall thy bodice aptly lac’d, 
That air and harmony of fliape exprefs , 
Fine by degrees, and delicately lefs. Prior. 
To utter; to declare; with the reciprocal pronoun.— 
Mr. Philips did exprefs himfelf with much indignation 
againft me one evening. Pope _To denote ; to designate. 
■—Modes and Aaron took thefe men cxprejfed by their 
names. Numb. i. 17.—To fqueeze out; to force out by 
eompreflion.—Among the watry juices of fruit are all the 
fruits out of which drink is exprejfed ; as the grape and 
the apple. Bacon. —To extort by violence, or elicite by 
art : a Latinifm : 
Halters and racks cannot exprefs from thee, 
More than thy deeds: ’tis only judgment waits thee. 
Ben Jonfun. 
EXPRE'SS, adj. Copied 5 refembling; exaftly like: 
Of his prefence many a fign 
Still following thee, (fill compafling thee round 
With goodnels and paternal luve ; his face 
Exprefs , and of his fteps the track divine. Milton. 
Plain ; apparent ; declared in aireft terms : 
All the gazers on the fkies 
Read not in fair heav’n's (lory 
Expreffer truth, or truer glory, 
Than they might in her bright eyes, Ben Jonfon. 
Clear ; not dubious. This feems to be no proper vfe.~\ love 
to feel myfelf of an exprefs and fettled judgment and affec¬ 
tion in-things of the greateft moment. More .—Where ren- 
fon or feripture is exprefs for any opinion, or aft ion, we 
may receive it as of divine authority. Locke. —On purpofe ; 
for a particular end.—They who are not induced to be¬ 
lieve and live as they ought, by thofe difeoveries which 
God hath made in Scripture, would hand out againft 
any evidence whatfoever; even that of a meftenger fent 
exprefs from the other world. Atlerbury, 
EXPRE'SS, f. A meftenger fent on purpofe : 
As if exprejfes from all parts had come, 
With frelh alarms threat’ning the fate of Rome. Dryden. 
A meflage fent.—I am content my heart fhould be difeo- 
vered to the world, without any of thofe popular capta¬ 
tions which fome men ufe in their fpeeches and cxprejfes. 
King Charles. —A declaration in plain terms. Not ufual .—■ 
They do not only contradift the general defign and parti¬ 
cular exprejes of the gofpel, but trefpafs againft all logic 
and common fenfe. Norris. 
EX'PRES'SIBLE, adj. That may be uttered or de¬ 
clared.—They had not only a memory and tradition of it 
in general, but even of feveral particular accidents of it 
likewife, which they handed downwards to the fucceed- 
ing ages, with notes of the greateft terror exprejjible. 
Woodward. —That may be drawn by fqueezing or ex- 
preftion. 
EXPRESSION, f. The aft or power of reprefenting 
any thing.—There is nothing comparable to the variety 
of inftruftive exprefjions by fpeech, wherewith man alone 
is endow'ed, as with an inftrument fuitable to the excel¬ 
lency of his foul, for the communication of his thoughts. 
Holder on Speech .—The form or mode of language inwhich 
any thoughts are uttered : 
But ill exprefion fometimes give allay • 
To noble thoughts, whole flame ftiall ne’er decay. 
Buckingham. 
A phrafe ; a mode of fpeech.—The aft of fqueezing or 
forcing out any thing by a prefs.—The juices of the leaves 
are obtained by exprejjion ; from this juice proceeds the 
tafte. Arbuthnot. 
EXPRESSIVE, adj. Having the power of utterance 
or reprefentatkm. With o/'before the thing exprefted.— 
A viiible and exemplary obedience to God’s laws is the 
mod exprcjjive acknowledgment of the majefty and fove- 
reignty of God, and difpofes others to glorify him by the 
fame obfervances. Rogers. 
And four fair queens, wdiofe hands fuftain a flow’r, 
The exprej/ive emblem of their fofter pow’r. Pope. 
EXPRESSIVELY, adv. In a clear and reprefentative 
way. 
EXPRESSIVENESS, f. The power of expreflion, or 
reprefentation by words.—The murrain has all the ex- 
prefjivenefs that words can give : it was here that Virgil 
{trained hard to outdo Lucretius. Addifon. 
EXPRESS'LY, adj. In direft terms ; plainly ; not by 
implication ; not generally.—All the duties that the beft 
political laws enjoin, as conducive to the quiet and order 
of focial life, are exprefsly commanded by our religion, 
Rogers. 
Who dare crofs ’em, 
Bearing the king’s will from his mouth exprefsly? Shakefp. 
EXPRES'SURE, f. Now difufed. Expreflion; utter¬ 
ance : 
There is a myftery in the foul of fiate, 
Which hath an operation more divine, 
Than breath or pen can give exprejfun to. .Shahefpeare, 
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