a. and sb. [ad. Gr. ἐξηγητικός, f. ἐξηγέεσθαι: see EXEGESIS. Cf. Fr. exégétique.] A. adj.

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  1.  = EXEGETICAL. Const. of.

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1655–60.  Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 175/1. Of Platonick discourse there are two kinds, Hyphegetick, and Exegetick.

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1677.  Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. 187. Plato oft … joins them [Law and Order] together as exegetic each of other.

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1801.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XII. 577. It is … behind the present state of exegetic knowledge.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. IV. iv. This strange autograph Letter the National Assembly decides … on transmitting to the Eighty-three Departments, with exegetic commentary.

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1841.  G. S. Faber, Provinc. Lett. (1844), I. 206, note. The etiam is exegetic and explanatory of what Reinerius had said just before.

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  2.  Alg. (after mod.L. exegeticus, so used by Vieta in 1600.] The distinctive epithet of Vieta’s process (see EXEGESIS 2) for the solution of equations.

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1843.  De Morgan, in Penny Cycl., XXV. 317. His [Vieta’s] extension of the antient rules for division and extraction of the square and cube roots to the exegetic process for the solution of all equations.

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  B.  sb. 1. = Gr. ἐξηγητική (τέχνη) (see quot.).

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1838.  Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, xxxiv. (1866), II. 199. The Art of Interpretation, called … technically Hermeneutic or Exegetic.

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  2.  pl. (after Gr. τὰ ἐξηγητικά) = Exegetical theology: see EXEGETICAL.

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1852.  J. H. Newman, Scope Univ. Educ., 17. Aquila, Symmachus … have supplied materials for primitive exegetics.

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1864.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IV. 310. An uncommonly frugal rate of board, for a man skilled in Hermeneutics, Hebraics … Exegetics, [etc.].

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