Word of the Day Archive
Thursday January 5, 2006
exegete \EK-suh-jeet\ , noun:
A person who explains or interprets difficult parts of written works.
All the things said in this passage are clear and should be paid attention to, without an exegete interpreting.
-- Galen, "Commentary on Hippocrates", On the Nature of Man
He is far more a man of prayer, a witness, a confessor and a prophet, than a learned exegete and close thinking scholastic.
-- Adolf Deissmann, Paul, A Study in Social and Religious History
exegete is from Greek exegetes, from the verb exegeisthai, "to interpret," and is related to exegesis.
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