Defn: Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson.
EXPOSITOR
Ex*pos"i*tor, n. Etym: [L. See Expound.]
Defn: One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.
EXPOSITORY
Ex*pos"i*to*ry, a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.
EXPOST FACTO; EXPOSTFACTO Ex"post` fac"to, or Ex"post`fac"to. Etym: [L., from what is done afterwards.] (Law)
Defn: From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true application, as employed in American law, it relates only to crimes, and signifies a law which retroacts, by way of criminal punishment, upon that which was not a crime before its passage, or which raises the grade of an offense, or renders an act punishable in a more severe manner that it was when committed. Ex post facto laws are held to be contrary to the fundamental principles of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States. Burrill. Kent.
EX POST FACTO; EX POSTFACTO Ex" post` fac"to, or Ex" post`fac"to (eks" post" fak"to). [L., from what is done afterwards.] (Law)
Defn: From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective.
Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true application, as employed in American law, it relates only to crimes, and signifies a law which retroacts, by way of criminal punishment, upon that which was not a crime before its passage, or which raises the grade of an offense, or renders an act punishable in a more severe manner that it was when committed. Ex post facto laws are held to be contrary to the fundamental principles of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States. Burrill. Kent.