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exegesis

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Noun
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ex=e=ge=sis

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun exegesis has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

exegesisn. [NL., fr.Gr. ,fr. to explain, interpret; out + to guide, lead, akin, to to lead. See Agent.].
  •  Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The process of finding the roots of an equation.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

exegesis, n. (pl. exegeses) critical explanation of a text, esp. of Scripture.

Derivative
exegete n. exegetic adj. exegetical adj. exegetist n.
Etymology
Gk exegesis f. exegeomai interpret (as EX-(2), hegeomai lead)

THESAURUS

exegesis

allegorization, annotation, apparatus criticus, clarification, comment, commentary, commentation, construction, cracking, decipherment, decoding, demonstration, demythologization, editing, elucidation, emendation, enlightenment, euhemerism, exemplification, explanation, explication, expose, exposition, expounding, footnote, gloss, illumination, illustration, interpretation, light, notation, note, note of explanation, rationale, reason, scholium, simplification, solution, unlocking, word of explanation

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exegesis

Interpretation

N interpretation, definition, explanation, explication, solution, answer, rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering, rendition, redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret, clew, clavis, crib, pony, trot, exegesis, expounding, exposition, hermeneutics, comment, commentary, inference, illustration, exemplification, gloss, annotation, scholium, note, elucidation, dilucidation, eclaircissement, mot d'enigme, symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics, metoposcopy, physiognomy, paleography, oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance, light, reading, lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning, synonym, paraphrase, metaphrase, convertible terms, apposition, dictionary, polyglot, explanatory, expository, explicative, explicatory, exegetical, construable, polyglot, literal, paraphrastic, metaphrastic, consignificative, synonymous, equivalent, in explanation, that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words, literally, strictly speaking, in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English, more simply.

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