a. [f. as prec. + -AL.] = prec. adj.
1637. R. Humphrey, trans. S. Ambrose, Pref. Two sorts, one exotericall, which is in common and civill use.
a. 1656. Hales, Gold. Rem. (1688), 189. Aristotle was wont to divide his Lectures and Readings into Acroamatical and Exoterical.
a. 1751. Bolingbroke, Ess., Monotheism, § 11, in Wks. 1754, IV. 235. Exoterical, or publick doctrines.
1827. Whately, Logic, Introd. p. v. A loose, vague, and popular kind of language; such as would be the best suited indeed to an exoterical discourse.
1858. R. A. Vaughan, Ess. & Rev., I. 32. His partisans have resorted in his defence to his exoterical writings.
