exegeticadj.n.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 278 I could truly..have enlarged this discourse with a choicer variety of phrase..attended on each side respectively with an Epiplectick and Exegetick Modification.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 187 Plato oft..joins them [sc. Law and Order] together as exegetic each of other.

1707 J. Spotiswood Introd. Knowl. Stile Writs Scotl. 37 Bonds, Discharges, &c..cannot be abridg'd otherways, than by omitting the Exegetick and Synonimous Words.

1786 Monthly Rev. Mar. 163 The term [sc. Communitas] was merely exegetic, and used in order to denote more clearly that the measures agreed to..were to be regarded as the measures of the whole nation.

1841 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) I. 206 (note) The etiam is exegetic and explanatory of what Reinerius had said just before.

1893 Thinker May 413 This passage seems only exegetic of an earlier passage.

1908 Scots Law Times Rep. 16 295/1 The words ‘benevolent’ and ‘charitable’..should be held to be synonymous or exegetic of one another.

1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. II. Index 642/1 Exegetic theology, its state, ib. respective merits of interpreters.

1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 12 577 It is..behind the present state of exegetic knowledge.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. iv. 228 This strange autograph Letter the National Assembly decides..on transmitting to the Eighty-three Departments, with exegetic commentary.

1919 I. Friedlaender Past & Present xxii. 428 His marvellous exegetic skill which made the Bible yield Aristotelian truths.

1971 Philos. Rev. 80 130 The book is divided into six chapters, of which the first five are exegetic and the last is critical.

2005 E. Y. Wang Shaping Lotus Sutra 406 The Buddhist master Zhiyi..synthesized Buddhist exegetic approaches of the north and south.

1843 A. De Morgan in Penny Cycl. XXV. 317 His [sc. Vieta's] extension of the antient rules for division and extraction of the square and cube roots to the exegetic process for the solution of all equations.

1977 Historia Mathematica 4 151 Thus intuition was the vitalizing element in Descartes' new philosophical method, just as the exegetic procedure had been in Vieta's new analytical art.

1683 tr. H. de Valois in tr. Eusebius et al. Hist. Church iv. xviii. 62/1 (margin) The antient Græcians called [Scholia] some short notes; and distinguish't them from Exegeticks [Gk. ἐξηγητικοῖς]: for Exegeticks [Gk. ἐξηγητικοὶ] were long and large expositions, and explained the whole work of a writer.

1789 S. Horsley Tracts in Controv. Dr. Priestley xli. 77 What proof of this secondary proposition is to be found in the 13th of the Exegetics upon St. Matthew's Gospel, I know not.

1838 J. H. Newman Lett. to Rev. G. Faussett 34 He will serve as a specimen of the capabilities of our own system under the same ingenious exegetic which makes the Pope Antichrist.

1923 C. K. Ogden Meaning of Meaning v. 200 Such an audacious exegetic is unwarranted.

1973 M. H. Abrams Nat. Supernaturalism viii. 446 One virtue..of this ingenious exegetic is that it directs attention to the scope and complexity of Romantic attitudes.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxxiv. 199 The Art of Interpretation, called..technically Hermeneutic or Exegetic.

1892 P. Schaff Theol. Propædeutic lvi. 93 Exegetical Theology or Exegetic embraces all that belongs to the learned explanation of the Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.