explication de texte
noun
ex·pli·ca·tion de texte ek-splē-kä-syōⁿ-də-ˈtekst 
plural explications de texte ek-splē-kä-syōⁿ-də-ˈtekst
: a method of literary criticism involving a detailed analysis of a work
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French, literally, "explanation of text"
First Known Use
1935, in the meaning defined above
- metaprescutal
- metaprescutum
- metaproteins
- metaproterenoles
- metaproterenols
- metapsychic
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- metapsychology
- metapterygia
- metapterygium
- metapterygoid
- metarossite
- Metarrhizium
- metarules
- metascience
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- metascope
- metascutal
- metascutellar
- metascutellum
- metascutum
- metasediment