account for, construe, demythologize, euhemerize, exposit, hold forth, make clear, preach, shed light upon, solve, unlock
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He expounded his theory in the seminar. [verb]
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Nor can it be considered anything but a gain that he was thus induced to expound his views with regard to those topics, and in connexion with those problems, which were the traditional forms of philosophical utterance. [verb]
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"But yet as it is best, if we wish to understand the nature of plants or of men, to consider how they may by degrees proceed from seeds, rather than how they were created by God in the beginning of the world, so, if we can excogitate some extremely simple and comprehensible principles, out of which, as if they were seeds, we can prove that stars, and earth and all this visible scene could have originated, although we know full well that they never did originate in such a way, we shall in that way expound their nature far better than if we merely described them as they exist at present." [verb]
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The Gospel should not be blamed, because the priests, as stupid as the legists, have been unable either to expound or to understand it. [verb]
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The principle of brotherhood expounded by the agitator of Nazareth preserved the germ of life, of truth and justice, so long as it was the beacon light of the few. [verb]
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We usually spent our Sabbaths at the opening, on which days our master would gather all his slaves about him, and read and expound the Scriptures. [verb]
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He is already acquainted with the drift of my commission, for reasons I will expound hereafter. [verb]
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Thereupon Hilda received him and his family into the monastery, made him one of the brethren, and commanded that the whole course of Bible history be expounded to him. [verb]
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Canadian) expansion and the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin, expounded in The Descent of Man and The Origin of Species. [verb]
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To test him they expounded to him a bit of Scripture from the Latin and bade him, if he could, to turn it into poetry. [verb]
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Organization and system are logical constructions of the expounder rather than in the external world expounded. [Please select]
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