exoteric

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The esoteric teaching was not, of course, grasped by all the initiates; the majority merely recognized or grasped the exoteric doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley

The ancients called the first method the esoteric and the second the exoteric, as we give to such lectures now, respectively, the names scholastic and popular.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)