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

The first of these bears evident traces of youth and inexperience, in both the esoteric and exoteric or technical mysteries of his art.

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

Virgil, in his description, in the �neid, of the Mysteries, confines himself to the exoteric teaching. �neas, having passed over the Stygian lake, meets with the three-headed Cerberus.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley