Exposit vs Particularize - What's the difference?
exposit | particularize |
To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.
(intransitive) To be specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), to specify.
*, I.iii.2.1:
*:I have disposed of them as I could, and will descend to particularize them according to their species.
* Atterbury
*1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 110:
*:Now it is his daily work to particularize , item by item, the iniquities of the system, and the petty manifestations of the tyranny here in Arras.
To differentiate, make distinct from others.
As verbs the difference between exposit and particularize
is that exposit is to expound while particularize is to make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc; to single out.particularize
English
Alternative forms
* particulariseVerb
(particulariz)- He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin.