Definition of "exegetist" [ex•e•ge•tist]

• Variant of exegete. (noun)

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• "But this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist supposes that Jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a dead whale — even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them."
• "Jerome is a, more learned exegetist, better equipped in respect of Scriptural erudition; he is even purer in his style; but, despite his impetuous ardour, he is less animated, less striking, than his correspondent of Hippo."
• "But I must not appear to my correspondent as an exegetist."