adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an exoteric manner; in a style suited to the uninitiated.

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1738.  Warburton, Div. Legat., III. iii. Wks. (1811), III. 90. The subject … must needs be handled exoterically.

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1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 42–3. [The] Dingy Priest … preaches forth (exoterically enough) one little textlet from the Gospel of Freedom.

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1864.  Max Müller, Sc. Lang., Ser. II. vii. (1868), 304. He may have represented him exoterically as a human being.

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