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The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.

The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.

A treatise on laws; an exposition of the form proper for laws.

meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase. In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly foll…

The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.

A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. [Obs.] He made a long preposition and oration. Fabyan.

plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work.

An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or like; also, the principles themselves.

guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.

An exposition of the general or abstract principles of any science; as, the theory of music.

Treatment; exposition. [Obs.] Shak.

om age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.

Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzvâresh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written.