A man may with more facility avoid him that circumvents by money than him that deceives with glosing terms, which made Socrates so much abhor and explode them.—Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy; Democritus to the Reader.
Thus was the applause they meant
Turned to exploding hiss, triumph to shame,
Cast on themselves from their own mouths.
Milton, Paradise Lost, x. 545; cf. xi. 699.
Shall that man pass for a proficient in Christ’s school, who would have been exploded in the school of Zeno or Epictetus?—South, Sermons, vol. i. p. 431.
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This now signifies to destroy, to abolish; but our fathers, more true to the etymology, understood by it to drive men out of and beyond their own borders.
Most things do either associate and draw near to themselves the like, and do also drive away, chase, and exterminate their contraries.—Bacon, Colours of Good and Evil, 7.
We believe it to be the general interest of us all, as much as in us lies, with our common aid and succour to relieve our exterminated and indigent brethren.—Milton, Letter written in Cromwell’s name on occasion of the persecutions of the Vaudois.