Verb (used with object) : to expound theories.    From Dictionary.com. 

I am wary of definitions -- even in expounding the exact sciences to an elementary class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education for a Classless Society] Reference

I am wary of definitions — even in expounding the exact sciences to an elementary class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education for a Classless Society] Reference

His embrace of new problems and perspectives and his energy in expounding his ideas conveyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmund S. Phelps - Autobiography] Reference

Clarence Thomas is almost invariably allied with Scalia in expounding and extending this new federalist agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Dangerous Branch?] Reference

These comments and that analogy have allowed me to give more consideration to the idea of expounding these issues in a thorough way.    From Wordnik.com.  [finitum non capax infiniti] Reference

Here's GREAT article kind of expounding on what Amy said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Life of Kat] Reference

Graugnard said that the office was "expounding" on its position, drawing comment from several justices.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference

Fibsy had an obstinate streak in his make-up, and Fleming Stone was too wise to insist on the boy's "expounding" just then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raspberry Jam] Reference

I venture to hope that this 'expounding' may not, in the future, extend to philosophic, philological, scientific, and exegetical details.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reconciliation of Races and Religions] Reference

G. Gordon Liddy was expounding on the need for "head shots.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unabomer And The Left] Reference

That's the way they always goes on expounding things to you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drone A Play in Three Acts] Reference

Indeed it most commonly misrepresents instead of expounding it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

He gained considerable fame as a preacher by expounding the doctrines of John.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

One of them has left an essay, expounding his father's theory of the intellect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

In expounding the law two points were always kept in view by Burgess Potts -- the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

From a desk an ardent tabby is expounding, loud and long, on the rights of her kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference

As I remember him in general, he was expounding upon his favorite subject regardless of.    From Wordnik.com.  [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference

After expounding the game and the rules, etc., as well as possible we started in to play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

Thus Tim to Mike, who had been expounding a theory of his on the wayward habits of mackerel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference

Hear sentence forsooth, that is, the ratling of broken glasses, and the expounding of dreams?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference

He is interesting to us as the first philosopher who thought of expounding his system in verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

But instead of expounding on that story, I'm going to write about the weddings we have been planning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joanne Herman: A Wedding Just for the Kids] Reference

Normally, she is active on Twitter and Facebook, expounding on issues related to Denver Public Schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Gottlieb: A Basic Lesson, Relearned] Reference

Daniel, in whom was found "an excellent spirit," and great dexterity in "expounding secrets and mysteries.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Her father had laid hold of him, and was expounding to him the rights of capitalists and various other matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

No sooner has she said this, though, than she catches herself expounding on capital-P Poetry and begins to laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reluctant Poet Laureate] Reference

"But you don't need the money," she argued, trying dimly to apply some of the principles which he was fond of expounding.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Suffragette] Reference

Rudolf Steiner's presentation of Goethe as the herald of the new form of scientific knowledge which he himself was expounding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Franklin began expounding "upon air and cold and respiration and perspiration, with which I was so much amused that I soon fell asleep.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Founding Fathers: John Adams Is In The House] Reference

While they were religiously engaged in praying and expounding the scripture, twenty-seven of them were carried before Sir Roger Cholmly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

But in his school-room the professor would display dignity, enjoyment and skill in expounding some intricate problem to admiring pupils.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

The greater part of the pamphlet is given over to expounding the illogicalities and inconsistencies of the established spelling, and here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703)] Reference

Instead of expounding the folly of the undertaking, they preferred to dilate upon the criminality of methods and the character of the Sinn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics] Reference