exegete (eksejet)

[F. exégète = Sp. Pg. exegeta = D. exegeet = G. exeget, an exegetist. Solitary monks and ambitious priests, hard-headed critical exegetes , allegorists, mystics, all found something congenial in his [Origen's] writings. Encyc. Brit., XVII. 842. The change of interpretation on the part of exegetes is not proof that Moses did not write with "scientific accuracy." N. A. Rev., CXXVII. 324. exegetic (ek-sē-jet'ik), a. and n. [F. exégé tique Sp. Pg. exegetico = It. esegetico (cf. D. G. exegetisch = Dan. Sw. exegetisk ), II. n. 1. Exegetical theology; exegetics; exegesis.-21. That part of algebra which treats of the methods of solving equations, whether numerically or geometrically; the theory of equations, in an early form.