Definition of "hermeneutical" []

• Of or pertaining to hermeneutics, the study or theory of the methodical interpretation of text, especially holy texts. (adjective)

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• "The explanation that Jesus gives is not The Explanation for All Ages; it is what we could call a hermeneutical pattern, or an interpretative model."
• "For the most part these problems are hermeneutical, that is, the problems are grounded in the various ways that each discipline understands its particular work as the interpretation of its respective "data" (observation for science, revelation for theology, reason for philosophy; of course, reason is essential for all three)."
• "Both the New Testament course and a 20th Century British poetry seminar, which I'm also auditing (and Auden-ing), have employed the same academic buzzword: "hermeneutical," which loosely defined means the interpretation of texts."