exegetical
1
9.9
- adjective
- /ˌɛksɪˈdʒɛtɪkəl/
- Formal
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exegetical
- The most influential of these figures, Gregory the Great, applied Tychonius's exegetical rules in ways that might have stunned Augustine.
- exegetical interpretation
- exegetical tradition
- exegetical reading
Examples
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Guy Newland offers three arguments which we may label: cosmological, hermeneutical, and exegetical.
Academic text (1999) -
His approach complements traditional approaches by helping readers understand the exegetical implications of the writer's choices.
Blog text (20) -
When this occurred, the result, more often than not, was an exegetical disaster of the first order.
Academic text (1991) -
But there is a second meaning at work here, an exegetical extravagance.
Academic text (2006) -
But the most interesting moral to be drawn from the comparison is not a purely exegetical one.
Academic text (1998) -
When one makes such a distinction, the second exegetical rule opened the possibility of speaking about the sinful Church.
Academic text (2002) -
The interpretation of the landscape as visual exegesis implies looking at the exegetical content and the pictorial structure as one.
Academic text (2006) -
Throughout the GE, Alfonso authorizes his universal history through the appropriation of canonical, exegetical, and classical discourses.
Academic text (2004) -
Premodern interpreters, from both Qumran and the Syriac exegetical tradition, understood the scriptural text to be open to a revelatory discourse.
Academic text (2006) -
In his lecture, the professor provided an exegetical analysis of the biblical texts to help students understand their deeper meanings.
Synonyms
17
6.3
Helping people understand art or history
3
6.7
Explaining art, writing, or data so people understand it better
1
9.9
A way of thinking that describes how people find meaning in texts, art, or symbols
1
9.9
Describing a way of interpreting texts or symbols
1
7.5
About ways or rules people use to decide the meaning of texts and data
About explaining or interpreting texts, especially religious books
How Interpretive
121
5.2
- Formal
1
9.9
- US
17
6.3
28
3.8
28
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Exegetical comes from an old Greek verb exegein meaning 'to lead out' or 'to explain', and it is the same root as exegesis, which means a careful explanation of a text. So an exegetical study 'leads out' the meaning of a passage, especially in the Bible or other books.