Word Meanings - EXPOSITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.
Related words: (words related to EXPOSITORY)
- INDEXICAL
Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index. - SERVING
a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant, - SERVO-MOTOR
A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve - SERVILELY
In a servile manner; slavishly. - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - SERVILENESS
Quality of being servile; servility. - SERVABLE
Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym: - 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 - SERVITORSHIP
The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell. - SERVER
1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph. - EXPLAIN
out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear - SERVIAN
Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. -- n. - JOHNSONIANISM
A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson. - JOHNSONESE
The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett. - SERVALINE
Related to, or resembling, the serval. - SERVICE
The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for - ILLUSTRATIVELY
By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne. - ILLUSTRATIVE
1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious. - CONTAINANT
A container. - SERVAGE
Serfage; slavery; servitude. Chaucer. - DISSERVE
To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym: - RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - DESERVEDNESS
Meritoriousness. - CONSERVATIONAL
Tending to conserve; preservative. - MISOBSERVE
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke. - SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley. - INSERVE
To be of use to an end; to serve. - PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety. - OBSERVANCY
Observance. - MANSERVANT
A male servant. - DESERVE
1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John - BOND SERVICE
The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21. - EPEXEGETICAL
Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical.