Now, seeing we cannot agree together in the manner ofexpounding or interpreting the sense of the Virgilian lots, let us bend our course another way, and try a new sort of divination.
And here be pleased to condemn yourself, by a renouncing of those errors which you have committed very grossly and somewhat perversely in expounding the prophetic sayings of the holy sibyl.
You understand as much, answered Panurge, in the veritable interpretation and expounding of recent prophecies as a sow in the matter of spicery.
He acquired his teacher's capacity for seizing the spirit of the Talmud and expounding it lucidly, and far surpassed him in hostility to secular studies.
Hence Jewish preachers devoted themselves more than ever to expounding the doctrine of the unity of God in their pulpits.
The angel is expounding to Josephe and Nasciens the marvels of the lance; to Josephe he says, "de cheste lance dont tu as este ferus; ne sera iamis ferus ke vns seus hom.
Some modern critics have thought, that his ignorance of Greek disqualified him from expounding the Scriptures; and Cicero or Quintilian would have required the knowledge of that language in a professor of rhetoric.
Numbers of young students attended his hall daily, to listen to the expounding of the rules and maxims he had acquired by a long life devoted to the service of God, and his duty to mankind.
The moollah was deeply engaged in expounding to his pupils a difficult passage of the Khoraun when the slave entered and delivered her message.
For seven days did the Master thus listen to the expounding of the Vedanta, without making any comment of His own.
But Sarvabhauma was not to blame for it; he was merely carrying out God's will, in expounding atheistical philosophy based on fancy.
And then expounding every one of these terms he says: "And indeed all men esteem the gods to be incorruptible.
Converts to new doctrines, new issues, new cults and to the old ones, too, are made largely because the ambassadors or proselyters seem so fervid and sincere in expounding what they claim is the definite truth.
By focusing their thought on their special belief they bring together sophistry, arguments, examples and so-called proof that gives them facility in arguing the case or expounding their doctrine.
And so with Paul, he was expounding the 'method and secret' of the Christ.
Protagoras conducts his side of the discussion with the customary rhetorical flourish, expounding in set speeches the tradition and usage in which such a possibility is accepted.
In the "Protagoras," where Plato represents Socrates as expounding his position, virtue is interpreted to mean prudence, or foresight of pleasurable and painful consequences.
But what author do you follow in expounding St. Paul?
In expounding the methods of Dialectic in the Topica he divided Problems into four classes according to the relation of the Predicate to the Subject.
So far as it was used, it was under the guise of reviving old knowledge or of expounding it more completely.
The main business of theology is made to consist in stating the conditions and expounding the solution of this imaginary problem.
My main purpose in expounding the book is to enable English readers, not only to follow its course, but to feel, and to be elevated by, its Divine inspiration.
It is another instance of that prophetic habit of his, on which we remarked in expounding chap.
Indeed, many Sophists and Rhetors presented themselves not as superseding,[49] but as expounding and illustrating, the poets.
Anxious as Galen is to extol Plato, his manner of expounding and defending the Platonic thesis is such as to mark the scientific progress realised during the five centuries intervening between the two.
But the manner of speaking, describing, and depicting is none the less an integral part of the truth when it is a matter of expounding and transmitting the latter.
And writers who have tried to lay down the principles of this art have gained no other result than to display their own poverty while expounding abundance.
Madame Medjora had quietly left the room while Leon was expounding his views to the Judge.
For, as his Honor will undoubtedly explain to you when expounding the law, the prosecution must prove the charge beyond all doubt.
With scarcely any resistance, Leon passed into a hypnotic trance, and while in that condition the Doctor began expounding to him the sculptured records of a forgotten knowledge.
He was a laborious and successful preacher of the Gospel; and his pen was employed in expounding and enforcing divine truth, and in illustrating the great principles of Congregational Church polity and the social influence of religion.
Rousseau, expounding his conception of a normal political state, was no doubt warranted in leaving these complicating conditions out of account, though to do so is to rob any treatise on government of much of its possible value.
And since authority is the rule of faith for women, it is not so much a matter of explaining to them the reasons for belief, as for expoundingclearly to them what to believe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expounding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
