[f. Gr. ἐξηγητ-ής (see EXEGETE) + -IST.] = EXEGETE 3.
1848. Geo. Eliot, in Life, iii. (1887), 101. I speak to an experienced exegetist.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., I. 640. Diodorus … was, as an exegetist, one of the masters of the Antiochian school.
