adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an exegetical manner: † a. By way of gloss or explanation. Obs. b. In an expository manner.

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a. 1638.  Mede, Chr. Sacrif., iv. Wks. II. (1672), 361. Here you see Oblations and Eucharists exegetically joyned together.

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1659.  Pearson, Creed, 247. The form of a servant, exegetically continued in the likenesse of man.

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a. 1710.  Bp. Bull, Wks. (1713), I. 200. This is not added exegetically, or by way of Exposition.

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1845.  R. Jebb, in Encycl. Metrop. (1847), II. 675/1. The science of jurisprudence properly admits of being treated in four different ways, philosophically, didactically or dogmatically, and exegetically.

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