adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an exoteric manner; in a style suited to the uninitiated.
1738. Warburton, Div. Legat., III. iii. Wks. (1811), III. 90. The subject must needs be handled exoterically.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 423. [The] Dingy Priest preaches forth (exoterically enough) one little textlet from the Gospel of Freedom.
1864. Max Müller, Sc. Lang., Ser. II. vii. (1868), 304. He may have represented him exoterically as a human being.