exegetics
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of exegetics
First recorded in 1850–55; see origin at exegetical, -ics
Example Sentences
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Subsequently he returned to Laon, where his school of theology and exegetics became the most famous one in Europe.
From Historia Calamitatum by Abelard, Peter
Later he removed to his native place, where his school for theology and exegetics rapidly became the most famous in Europe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Again, 'De Inspiratione'—the whole question of the Higher Criticism, volume after volume, Bull after Bull, articles in all the magazines, and the whole course of German exegetics.
From My New Curate by Sheehan, Patrick Augustine
"In all Western Aramæa," says Lengerke, that is, in Syria, "there was but one mode of treating whether exegetics or doctrine, the practical."
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal
Reading incessantly, now fiction, now history, poetry, essays, philosophy, science, exegetics, and what not, he becomes a kind of pantechnicon of slovenly knowledge; a knower of thousands of things that aren't so.
From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher
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