Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person skilled in exegesis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Greek antiquity: A leader; guide; teacher; expounder.
  • noun In Athens, an interpreter of religious law and regulator of ceremonies. The office was confined to the aristocracy.
  • noun One who expounds or interprets a literary production, particularly Scripture; one skilled in exegesis; an exegetist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An exegetist.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person skilled in exegesis; an interpreter.
  • verb To interpret; to perform an exegesis.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek exēgētēs, from exēgeisthai, to interpret; see exegesis.]

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From Ancient Greek ἐξηγητής.

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  • (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 12, 2009