Expound Definition

Expound Sentence Examples

• From that time he gave up all worldly learning and laboured solely to expound spiritual things.

• They therefore elect elders, who expound the Scriptures, baptize and hear confessions.

• At this point, you may be asked for an explanation for the company's records, but do not feel obligated to expound on the details.

• It effected a revolution in his mode of thinking; so completely did the Kantian doctrine of the inherent moral worth of man harmonize with his own character, that his life becomes one effort to perfect a true philosophy, and to make its principles practical maxims. At first he seems to have thought that the best method for accomplishing his object would be to expound Kantianism in a popular, intelligible form.

• It is not easy to harmonize these quasi-scientific theories with the theory of transmigration of souls which Empedocles seems to expound.