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; exegetical, -ics

Example Sentences

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

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

"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

She has worded her theological teaching in the phraseology of Aristotle; Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, Origen, Eusebius, and Apollinaris, all more or less heterodox, have supplied materials for primitive exegetics.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry