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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which is publicly taught; popular instruction, especially in philosophy: originally applied to the public lectures and published writings of Aristotle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Philos.) The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See
esoterics .
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- noun philosophy The
public lectures or publishedwritings ofAristotle .
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From the Five Temples (Go-zari) students constantly flocked to China, where they received instructions in the exoterics and esoterics of Buddhism, as modified by the creed of
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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There were times when the thought of presenting herself as a candidate for admission into the band of literary exoterics seemed to Edna unpardonably presumptuous, almost sacrilegious, and she shrank back, humbled and abashed; for writers were teachers, interpreters, expounders, discoverers, or creators --
St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867
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