expone

See also: exponé

English

Etymology

From Old English exponen. See expound.

Verb

expone (third-person singular simple present expones, present participle exponing, simple past and past participle exponed)

1. (obsolete, UK or Scotland) To expound; to explain.
   • 1643, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Σκιαμαχία: or a Defence of a Petition tendered to the Lords of the Council of Scotland by certain Noblemen and Gentlemen:

     it belongs to you alone to expone the Covenant

2. (obsolete, UK or Scotland) To expose; to imperil.

References

“expone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

expōne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of expōnō

Spanish

Verb

expone

1. third-person singular present indicative of exponer