exegeticaladj.n.

1607 T. Tuke tr. W. Perkins Arte of Prophecying iv. 33 Places repeated haue often alterations for sundrie causes. These causes are, first exegeticall [L. exegeticae], that is, for exposition sake, as Psal. 78.2. compared with Mat. 13.35.

1642 W. Price Serm. 32 The one verse is exegeticall to the other.

1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ (ed. 2) 135 Life, and soul, and spirit, are..often made exegetical one of another.

1721 R. Wodrow Let. 20 Feb. in Corr. (1843) II. 533 I take this proposition to be exegetical.

1771 J. Hingeston Disc. Divine Covenants I. 48 The words, ‘dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return’, seem plainly exegetical of those other, ‘thou shalt surely die’.

1817 New Evangelical Mag. Mar. 91/2 Does the preacher mean to teach us that the term God and Presence are convertible, so as that the latter is exegetical of the former?

1884 E. W. Hopkins Ordinances Manu 109 This exegetical verse with the following seems a late addition; it is simply a business-like explanation of the ātmaniredana.

1908 Session Cases 1226 The words were in fact employed as synonymous or as exegetical of one another, and not for the purpose of describing institutions of a distinctive character.

1965 P. Borgen Bread from Heaven i. 14 Philo, by the exegetical method of paraphrase, weaves fragments from this tradition together with words and phrases from Old Testament quotations.

2009 B. Halpern From Gods to God i. 27 The fuller, probably explanatory name, yhwh 'lhym, ‘he causes the gods/pantheon to be’... If exegetical of the older cultic name, this represents Yhwh as the patriarch of all the gods.

1631 J. Lesly Epithrene 15 (heading) Part Exegeticall: Explicating the Nature of Weeping.

1677 J. Hanmer Αρχαιοσκοπια 65 The third [book]..is partly polemical, partly exegetical.

1710 tr. P. Bayle Hist. & Crit. Dict. IV. 2458 His exegetical works were collected in three volumes in folio.

1795 Brit. Critic Apr. 442 The notes..show the author to have been intimately acquainted with the works of the most celebrated exegetical writers.

1835 R. B. Patton tr. J. G. Eichhorn Acct. Life & Writings J. D. Michaelis 7 Exegetical learning was regarded as superfluous and hostile to real piety.

1862 H. J. Rose in Replies to Ess. & Rev. 120 He has attributed to Jerome exegetical absurdities.

1884 Nonconformist & Independent 14 Feb. 157/1 Exegetical study is not new to him.

1912 Harvard Theol. Rev. 5 69 The exegetical question concerning the speaker in the psalms, whether the ‘I’ of the Psalter has an individual or a collective reference.

1985 S. J. Gould Flamingo's Smile (1987) 19 Some essays are spare in their exegetical style of commentary on single historical texts.

2006 M. A. Farley Just Love 184 Finding in the Hebrew bible the light we need for contemporary sexual ethics involves..a serious exegetical and interpretive task.

1654 S. Ward Vindiciæ Academiarum 57 The Analyticks was their [sc. the Alexandrian school's] Art, the Exegeticall part hath indeed been found out by Vieta, and the Geometricall effection of solid and lineary Problemes, by the immortall wit of Des Cartes, but had it not been for those, we never had enjoyed the benefit of these.

2000 R. Feldhay in L. Daston Biogr. Sci. Objects ii. 54 Algebra—divided, after Vieta, into the zetetic, the poristic, and the exegetical—is granted an honorable place between arithmetic and geometry, and bears witness to the reception of Vieta in Jesuit circles.

1772 W. Pennington Free Inq. Pluralities 258 If the words have their correspondent ideas thrown too remote in shade, it won't pass for exegetical theology without a new revelation.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. ii. 178 In..exegetical theology, the English divines had already taken a conspicuous station.

1870 P. J. Gloag Crit. & Exegetical Comm. Acts. Apostles ix. 119 The subject..belongs to dogmatical, and not to exegetical theology.

1907 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 11 112 Exegetical theology comprises all studies that deal with the Bible.

2008 L. R. Helyer Witness Jesus, Paul & John 22 Traditionally, theology has been divided into four major areas: exegetical theology, historical theology, systematic theology and practical theology.