exegetics

American  

[ek-si-jet-iks] / ˌɛk sɪˈdʒɛt ɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the science of exegesis; exegetical theology.

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exegetics British  

/ ˌɛksɪˈdʒɛtɪks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the scientific study of exegesis and exegetical methods

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Etymology

Origin of exegetics

First recorded in 1850–55; see origin at exegetical, -ics

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Example Sentences

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exegetics

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

Through you He will compose the exegetics of bhakti, and lay down its scriptures and practices.

From Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by K???ad?sa Kavir?ja Gosv?mi

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 Patrick Augustine Sheehan

"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 John Henry Cardinal Newman

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 Christopher Morley

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