Ex`po*si"tion (?), n.
[L. expositio, fr. exponere,
expositum: cf. F. exposition. See Expound.]
1. The act of
exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
2. The act of expounding or of laying
open the sense or meaning of an
author, or a
passage; explanation;
interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.
You know the
law; your exposition
Hath been most sound.
Shak.
3. Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun. [Obs.]
Arbuthnot.
4. A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris
Exposition of
1878. [A Gallicism]
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