expoundern.
/ᵻkˈspaʊndə/, /ɛkˈspaʊndə/, U.S. /ɪkˈspaʊndər/, /ɛkˈspaʊndər/ One who expounds; an expositor. Occasionally transferred of a thing: That which serves to expound.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > one who explains
expositora1340
expounitourc1380
undoer1382
expoundera1425
reader1440
declarera1527
looser1528
explainer1579
exponer1588
illustrator1598
clearer1599
explicator1611
unfolder1611
representer1642
dilucidator1689
unravellera1704
elucidator1715
exponent1812
explanator1858
transfuser1889
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. xli. 7 He [Farao] sente to alle the expowneris of Egipt..and..he telde the dreem.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 65 Alle expowners and glose ȝeuers to Holi Scripture.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xxviii. 3 Saul had dryuen the soythsayers and expounders of tokens out of ye londe.
1565 J. Jewel tr. in Replie Hardinges Answeare ii. 120 The Custome, and practise of the people, is the best expounder of the Lawe.
1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1842) II. 115 Magistrates and expounders of the Mahomedan law.
1869 tr. F. A. Pouchet Universe (1871) 3 Bonnet, one of the most zealous expounders of natural history.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 6 The argument of which the Athenian is the expounder.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > one who explains > female
unfoldress1577
expoundress1604
decipheress1740
expositress1840
1604 Supplic. Certaine Masse-priests §37 The Romish Church, whom they make chiefe expoundresse of Scriptures.
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