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Webster 1913 Edition
Exposition
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
Hath been most sound.
exposition
Hath been most sound.
Shakespeare
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]
Webster 1828 Edition
Exposition
EXPOSI'TION
,Noun.
1.
A situation in which a thing is exposed or laid open, or in which it has an unobstructed view, or in which a free passage to it is open; as, a house has an easterly exposition, an exposition to the south or to a southern prospect. The exposition gives a free access to the air or to the sun's rays. 2.
Explanation; interpretation; a laying open the sense or meaning of an author or of any passage in a writing.