Associations to the word «Expository»

Wiktionary

EXPOSITORY, adjective. Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.

Dictionary definition

EXPOSITORY, adjective. Serving to expound or set forth; "clean expository writing".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats