All 6 Uses of
expound
in
Ivanhoe
- "The swine turned Normans to my comfort!" quoth Gurth; "expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull, and my mind too vexed, to read riddles."†
Chpt 1
- But my steward has expounded to you the cause of my seeming discourtesy.†
Chpt 4 *
- "By the crook of St Dunstan," said that worthy ecclesiastic, "which hath brought more sheep within the sheepfold than the crook of e'er another saint in Paradise, I swear that I cannot expound unto you this jargon, which, whether it be French or Arabic, is beyond my guess."†
Chpt 25
- —Did I not spend the whole night in drinking to thee, and in expounding of mysteries?†
Chpt 32
- Let our buxom chaplain stand forth, and expound to this reverend father the texts which concern this matter.†
Chpt 33
- Conrade was better acquainted (perhaps by practice) with the jargon of gallantry, than was his Superior; and he expounded the passage which embarrassed the Grand Master, to be a sort of language used by worldly men towards those whom they loved 'par amours'; but the explanation did not satisfy the bigoted Beaumanoir.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(expound) explain or discuss in detail