v. Obs. [f. L. explōs- ppl. stem of explōdĕre to EXPLODE.] = EXPLODE 1, 2.

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c. 1534.  trans. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden), I. 134. Our relligion … being eche where explosed and contemned.

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1563–87.  Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 25/2. Their doctrine … most worthie to be explosed out of all Christian Churches. Ibid., 32/1. Some also reade the Epistle written to Laodicia, but that is explosed of all men.

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