exoteric

Example Sentences

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As role model, sheds a dim light, His pick exoteric Gave us Bernie Kerik, Still ready, it seems, to incite.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2010

Among the exoteric doings of the human race were the following: Gilbert Murray.

From Time Magazine Archive

In solving this affair, the Bishop had recourse to the more exoteric passages of his criminal literature.

From Time Magazine Archive

He sees nothing but the exoteric side of the fable; the more instructed philosopher sees in it nothing beyond an attempt to weave a story to account for ordinary men and women existing.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas

Hitherto they had been exoteric and profane; now they had become esoteric and holy.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley