Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of exegesis; explanatory; tending to interpret or illustrate; expository. Also
exegetical . - noun Exegetical theology; exegeties; exegesis.
- noun That part of algebra which treats of the methods of solving equations, whether numerically or geometrically; the theory of equations, in an early form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
exegesis ;explanatory
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- adjective relating to exegesis
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Examples
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An exegetic argument about Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe" between Gerry, a gangster's moll and the chief drug dealer could have come out of Reservoir Dogs, or Tipperary Terriers as they might well call it out there.
The Guard – review 2011
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Glied professor of health policy and management at the Mailman School of Public Health, and currently on leave as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), analysed Reinhardt's and many other studies, in a ground breaking exegetic survey of health care.
Stephan A. Schwartz: Benjamin Franklin And a Modern American Portrait of Physical Health and Hunger Stephan A. Schwartz 2010
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Glied professor of health policy and management at the Mailman School of Public Health, and currently on leave as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), analysed Reinhardt's and many other studies, in a ground breaking exegetic survey of health care.
Stephan A. Schwartz: Benjamin Franklin And a Modern American Portrait of Physical Health and Hunger Stephan A. Schwartz 2010
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Glied professor of health policy and management at the Mailman School of Public Health, and currently on leave as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), analysed Reinhardt's and many other studies, in a ground breaking exegetic survey of health care.
Stephan A. Schwartz: Benjamin Franklin And a Modern American Portrait of Physical Health and Hunger Stephan A. Schwartz 2010
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I've never actually had the full-on psychotic break, but I recognise symptoms of both acute and chronic stages in my own exegetic inquiries from adolescence through my early twenties: apophenia; smearing of meaning; loss of affect; theophanic ecstasy.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE Hal Duncan 2007
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He is worried about a literary culture in which the “biographical will triumph over the exegetic.”
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This exegetic attention is based on the conception that views Ruth as primarily the great-grandmother of King David, which is the source of her exalted status.
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He is worried about a literary culture in which the “biographical will triumph over the exegetic.”
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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In another exegetic expansion, after twenty childless years, Isaac took Rebekah to Mount Moriah, to the place of the Binding, and he prayed for her, that she become pregnant, and God answered him (Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, ed. Higger, chap. 31).
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According to another exegetic tradition, she told him: “I am one of those women who receives her gifts the hard way, like Sarah and the other righteous women” (Midrash Samuel 2: 11).
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