exposition, expounding
(noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic
Source: WordNet® 3.1
expounding
present participle of expound
expounding (plural expoundings)
The act by which something is expounded.
[…] all the elaborate expoundings of these impudent empirics, who are a million times worse than the worst of Catholic Priests.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*pound", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Expounding.] Etym: [OE. exponen, expounen, expounden, fr. L. exponere to set out, expose, expound; ex out + ponere to put: cf. OE. expondre, expondre. See Position.]
1. To lay open; to expose to view; to examine. [Obs.] He expounded both his pockets. Hudibras.
2. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 June 2025
(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
