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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The only one which I could then comprehend was exoteric; that which was known to my elders was the esoteric meaning.

From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Inman, Thomas

We could lay hands on a letter setting forth the claim that this teaching is purely "esoteric" and not to be estimated by exoteric standards—this, too, from a Branch president!

From H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal by Cleather, Alice Leighton