exoteric

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As role model, sheds a dim light, His pick exoteric Gave us Bernie Kerik, Still ready, it seems, to incite.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2010

In solving this affair, the Bishop had recourse to the more exoteric passages of his criminal literature.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the exoteric doings of the human race were the following: Gilbert Murray.

From Time Magazine Archive

What Descartes, however, is really expressing in this exoteric way is simply that beneath and beyond all particular truths lies the great general truth of the unity of thought and existence.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

The esoteric teaching was not, of course, grasped by all the initiates; the majority merely recognized or grasped the exoteric doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley