Word Meanings - EXEGESIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The process of finding the roots of an equation. (more info) 1. Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.

Related words: (words related to EXEGESIS)

• FINDER
  One who, or that which, finds; specifically , a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding 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
• EXPLANATION
  1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• ROOTSTOCK
  A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s
• FINDFAULTING
  Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.
• EQUATION
  An expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets of quantities, the sign = being placed between them; as, a binomial equation; a quadratic equation; an algebraic equation; a transcendental equation; an exponential
• CRITICALNESS
  1. The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time. 2. Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness.
• FINDFAULT
  A censurer or caviler.
• PORTION
  1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. 2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard
• PORTIONER
  See 2 (more info) 1. One who portions.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• PROCESSIONING
  A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
• PORTIONLESS
  Having no portion.
• FIND
  findan; akin to D. vinden, OS. & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna, Goth. fin; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr. pat 1. To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new,
• PROCESS PLATE
  A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process. A very slow photographic plate, giving good contrasts between high lights and shadows, used esp. for making lantern slides.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• ACRITICAL
  Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.