exotery

[EXOTERIC, a.] What is exoteric, obvious, simple, or common. "Reserving their esoteries for adepts, and dealing out exoteries only to the vulgar." Search: Freewill, & c., p. 172. (Note.) ex-o-the-çi-um (or çi as shi), s . [Gr.exo=outside; Lat. dim. of theca =a case; Gr. thēkē a box.] Bot.: The exterior layer of the wall of an anther. Botany : 1. The outermost of three coats in the spore of an equisetum. 2. A dark outer layer in the cell-wall of a zygospore. It is used spec. of this structure in the fungoid genus Mucor, which is propagated sexually by conjugation as well as in the normal way. ex-o-spör-oŭs, a. [Pref.exo-; Eng., ., spor ( e ), and suff. -ous.] Having naked spores. *ex-os-sāte, v . t . [Latin exo atus , pa. par. of exo o to deprive of bones: ex =out, away, and os (gen it. o is ) = a bone.] To deprive of bones. ex-os-sāte, ex-os-sāt-ěd, a. [Lat. exo atus.] Deprived of bones. *ex-os-sā-tion, s. [Lat. exo atus , pa. par. of eros so: ex out, away, and os (gen it. o is ) = a bone.] The act of depriving of bone or bony matter; the state of being without bone or bony matter. "Experiment solitary touching exo ation of fruits." Bacon : Natural History , § 854.