Search the Dictionary

xpounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. Shak.…

An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary. All this, without a gloss or comment, He would unriddle in a moment. Hudibras. Explaining the text in short glosses. T. Baker.

o-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the…

Unfolding the signification; of or pertaining to interpretation; exegetical; explanatory; as, hermeneutic theology, or the art of expounding the Scriptures; a hermeneutic phrase.

According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically.

The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.

al induction is founded on the necessary laws of thought; philosophical induction, on the interpretation of the indications or analogy of nature.

Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.

Interpretation. [Obs.] Milton.

According to interpretation; constructive. An interpretative siding with heresies. Hammond.

By interpretation. Ray.

That part of theological science directly preliminary to actual exegesis, or interpretation of the Scriptures.

udges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this.…

The science of worship; history, doctrine, and interpretation of liturgies.

Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language. Payne.

Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.

The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.

One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.