Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person skilled in exegesis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who expounds or interprets a literary production, particularly Scripture; one skilled in exegesis; an exegetist.
- n. In Greek antiquity: A leader; guide; teacher; expounder.
- n. In Athens, an interpreter of religious law and regulator of ceremonies. The office was confined to the aristocracy.
Wiktionary
- n. A person skilled in exegesis; an interpreter.
- v. To interpret; to perform an exegesis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An exegetist.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts)
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἐξηγητής. (Wiktionary)
- Greek exēgētēs, from exēgeisthai, to interpret; see exegesis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mr. Wick, a journalist himself, is alert to the dilemma faced by reporters working inside closed countries: Does one tell the story as one sees it and risk ejection, or does one abide by the censorship and hope that the world can exegete the truth from hints and suggestions?”
“After all, this is no private event, for which it would be sufficient to read the Bible by oneself or even with the aid of an experienced exegete.”
“In this liturgical Latin the requirements demanded by Hilary for the style of the Christian exegete are realized to the full: Non enim secundum sermonis nostri usum promiscuam in his oportet esse facilitatem: "There is no place here for the loose facility of the colloquial language" (In Ps. 13.1).”
“Of course, this need not worry the modern exegete, but it bothers me.”
“In this way, Rabanus Maurus became an exegete, philosopher, poet, pastor and man of God.”
“He's not some disreputable, anti-social obsessive -- he's a veritable exegete of 9/11 anomalies, as fluent in the jargon of physics as he is in political dialectics.”
“Moreover, they should be present to advise and to teach the Word of God in its context and teach the indigenous church leaders to exegete Scriptures.”
The Huffington Post: Jamaal Bell: The Missionary's Role In The Indigenous Church
“Old Testament scholar Francis Watson, it can be said to have had three main figures: the systematic theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, often called the father of modern (Protestant) theology, who lived from 1768 to 1834; the historian of theology Adolf von Harnack, who lived from 18511 to 1930, and the exegete Rudolf Bultmann, who lived from 1884 to 1976.”
“When you sit down with leaders and they cannot even exegete Romans 11:20-22, a person can know it is pretty bad.”
`Cecil Sherman was no moderate' | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
“She was the daughter of Jacob Abravanel (d. 1528), who was one of the two brothers of Isaac Abravanel (1437 – 1508), the Spanish Jewish exegete, philosopher and statesman.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘exegete’.
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Mirrored Vowels
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• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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Collected Words - List 2
I've been saving these words FOR YEARS. Now, I've found Wordie
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Pretentious Christianese
"Religious" words that make you sound like a pretentious jerk no matter how appropriate their application. Essentially any word you can use as an excuse not to actually have a real conversation. =)
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Good Words
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suzyg's Words
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
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SimianFarmer's Words
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them's reading words
things i pick up over the course of my academic reading
puissance, cleped, tintinnabulation, metastasize, dithyramb, coenesthesis, conflate, hegemonic, counter-hegemonic, conventicle, dialectic, mendacity and 14 more...
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Old School Commentators
synecdoche, hyperbole, thresh, contrite, hendiadys, condescension, contrition, yieldedness, propitiation, chiliastic, synecdochically, proselyte and 65 more...
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Gentlemen of the Road
Vocab from "Gentlemen of the Road" by Michael Chaban
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words to remember
your standard list of "hey, that's a great word."
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errguitar's Words
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sehrgut (v): to perform exegesis
It's got a history I can track at least back to 1874 across multiple fields of acadaemia, and I'm shortly submitting it to the OED. May 11, 2009