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EXPOSITION, a word of numerous applications. One of the most common is the theological, i.e., the action of expounding, the explaining of a text. In logic, the word is used to indicate a `'showing forth" of principles, a "statement" of the nature of things and their disposition. In its modern industrial application it is a synonym for exhibition (q.v.).

EX POST FACTO

(lit. "from what is done afterwards"), a phrase used especially of laws operating retrospectively.