- a variation of exegetical.
exegetic
Britishadjective
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There are songs, too, as in Brecht’s original text — exegetic tunes that the characters break into — set to new music by Sam Day Harmet, who performs here with Erica Mancini and Stephen LaRosa.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2022
Attempts to make sense of the disjuncture and of what it may entail or suggest fill library shelves of exegetic prose.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
Geiger 158 won a name for himself by his studies on the French exegetic school.
From Rashi by Adele Szold
Now the passages which require exegetic manipulation are in general those which seem opposed to reason.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
This strange autograph Letter the National Assembly decides on printing; on transmitting to the Eighty-three Departments, with exegetic commentary, short but pithy.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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