Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of exegete.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One skilled in exegetical theology; an exegete.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called
exegete .
Examples
“But this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist supposes that Jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a dead whale — even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them.”
“Jerome is a, more learned exegetist, better equipped in respect of Scriptural erudition; he is even purer in his style; but, despite his impetuous ardour, he is less animated, less striking, than his correspondent of Hippo.”
“But I must not appear to my correspondent as an exegetist.”
“The Bible has been sifted again and again; its history is known, every word has been weighed, and it is difficult to imagine the most scrupulous exegetist throwing a search light into any unexplored corner.”
“Reusch grew odious to him, and he revenged himself for the hypocrisy of other hours by fierce scorn, cast audibly at this laborious exegetist.”
“He was obliged to become controversialist, jurist, exegetist, and theologian.”
The Life of Jesus
“(Chambers defines an exegetist as one who interprets or expounds.)”
“But this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist supposes that Jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a dead whale -- even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them.”
“But this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist supposes that Jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a”
“a guide and exegetist some Vincent de Beauvais of Diocletian's period [23] as when looking over the marvelous {18} sculptured encyclopedias in our”
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madmouth "...this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist supposes that Jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a DEAD whale--even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them."
Moby-Dick, ch. 83
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