exedra 
air, often by a roadside or in some other pub- 
lic place, provided with seats for the purpose of 
repose and conversation. Tim form of tlic excilra 
was arbitrary, but It was always open to the mm UN, I tin. 
Exeilr.i, Street of Tombs. Auos. 
(From Report of Archieological Institute of America.) 
The term is now sometimes applied to an apse, a recess, or 
a large nil In' in a wall, or a porch or chapel projecting from 
a large building. Also, less properly, exhcdm. 
exegesis (ek-se-jo'sis), . (= F. r.m//w = ly. 
rj-i-i/rse, exegesis = It. esrgesi = D. G. Dan. er- 
egese = Sw. exeges, < NL. exegesis^ < Or. efyyv- 
<r(f, explanation, interpretation, < ct;!jyeia0ai, ex- 
plain, interpret/ tf, out, 4- 17; eiadat, guide, lead, 
< ayctv, lead : see agent. Cf. epexegesis.] 1 . The 
exposition or interpretation of any literary pro- 
duction or passage ; more particularly, the ex- 
position or interpretation of Scripture. See ex- 
egetical theology, under exegetical. 
Every progress in exegexis must have its effect upon sys- 
tematic theology and the symbolic statement of truth. 
Schaf, Christ and Christianity, p. 169. 
The ingenuity of orthodox exegesis has always been 
equal to the task of making Scripture mean whatever Is 
required. J. Fiske, Evolutionist, p. 227. 
2. A discourse intended to explain or illustrate 
a subject ; specifically, an exercise in Biblical 
interpretation sometimes prescribed to students 
of theology when on examination preliminary 
to lieensure or ordination. 3t. In math., in the 
language of Vieta and other early algebraists, 
the numerical or geometrical solution of an 
equation. 
exegesist (ek-se-je'sist), n. [< exeges(is) + -4st.] 
Same as exegetist. [Rare.] 
A recent writer, speaking of the religious tendencies of 
the negroes, says that he would rather risk his chance of 
the New Jerusalem, holding to the girdle of some negro 
saints he has known who could neither read nor write, 
than with the sharpest exegerist and the best creeded theo- 
logian in the world. 
The Independent (New York), May 15, 1862. 
exegete (ek'se-jet), n. [= F. exiSgete = Sp. Pg. 
exegeta = D. exegeet = G. exeget, < Gr. eZ'ryyfc, 
a leader, adviser, expounder, interpreter, < ei-r/- 
yeloOai, lead, explain : see exegesis.'] One who 
expounds or interprets a literary production, 
particularly Scripture; one skilled in exegesis; 
an exegetist. 
Solitary monks and ambitions priests, hard-headed criti- 
cal fxetir.tfg, allegorists, mystics, all found something con- 
genial in his [Origcn >| writings. Encyc. Brit., XVII. 842. 
The change of interpretation on the part of exegeteg is 
not proof that Moses did not write with "scientific accu- 
racy." N. A. Rev., CXXVII. 324. 
exegetic (ek-se-jet'ik), a. and n. [= F. exege- 
tique = Sp. Pg. cxegetico = It. esegetico (of. D. 
Gr. exegetisch = Dan. Sw. exegetisk), (. NL. exe- 
geticus, < Gr. cfi/yr/Tt/c6f, explanatory, < fftfyvnfr, 
an expounder, < t!-tiyela8ai, explain : see exegete, 
exegesis.] I. a. Pertaining to or of the nature 
of exegesis; explanatory; tending to interpret 
or illustrate ; expository. Also cxegeticnl. 
II. n. 1 . Exegetical theology ; exegetics ; ex- 
egesis. 2f. That part of algebra which treats 
of the methods of solving equations, whether 
numerically or geometrically; the theory of 
equations, in an early form. 
exegetical (ek-se-jet"'i-kal), IT. [< exegetic + 
-al7\ Same as exegetic Exegetical theology, that 
branch of theology which treats of the exposition and in- 
terpretation of the Bible. It includes the study of the 
original languages of the Bible, its arclwoology, and the 
rules and principles of its criticism and interpretation. 
Also called i\r/'iri'tiC8. 
K.r<- art iriil Tkctthuiii. or Biblical Science, has for its ob- 
ject the study and exposition of the Book of books, the 
Book of God for all ages and for all munkiii'l. 
Scha/, Christ and Christianity, p. 2. 
exegetically (ek-se-jet'i-kal-i), adv. By or by 
way of exegesis ; as explanation. 
This is not aihl. <1 t .r>'<it'tii-i[U>r or by way of exposition. 
Bp. Bull, Works, I. 200. 
The phrase "in the form of Ood " ... is used by the 
apostle with respect unto that other of " the form of a ser- 
vant. 'i continued " in the likeness of man." 
Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, ii. 
exegetics (ek-so-jot'iks), n. [PI. otexcfjftic: see 
!<-.*.] Exegetical theology (which see, under ex- 
In all Western Araiuica . . . there was but one way ,,f 
treat in*.:, whether , ,r. ;,?<>> or iloetnur. Hi-- practical. 
J. 11. .\>M//f't iv\ el"i>nieiit of Christ. Doct., v. 
2063 
exegetist (<'k-K(}-j(VtiHt), . [< Or. i^ r , >/-'/',; exe- 
gete, + -int.] One skilled in exegetical theol- 
ogy ; an exegete. Quarterly Her. 
exelteredt, o. [For "exletreea, < exletree, = axle- 
tree, + -e(fe.] Furnished with an axletree. 
Strong exellered cart that is clouted and shod. 
Twaer, Husbandrie. p ;::. 
exembryonate (eks-em'bri-o-nat), . [< ex- 
priv. + emtryonate.] In bot., without an em- 
bryo: applied to the spores of cryptogams, 
which differ in this respect from the seeds of 
phamogams. 
exemplairet. See exemplar, a. , and exemplar, n. 
exemplar (eg-zem'plar), a. [< ME. exemplaire, 
< OF. exemplaire, F. "exemplaire = Sp. ejemplar 
= Pg. exemplar = It. esemplare (of. G. exem- 
plarisch = Dan. Sw. fxemptarisk), < LL. exem- 
plaris, that serves as pattern or model, < L. ese- 
i ni /'I a in, a pattern, copy: see example, sample, 
exemplar, n.] If. Serving as an example ; ex- 
emplary. 
Thys lady full swete and ryght debonair, 
To all other lades exemplair. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 8377. 
It hath pleased God to ordain and illustrate two exem- 
plar states of the world for arms, learning, moral virtue, 
policy, and laws: the state of Gnccia, and the state of 
Rome. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, il. 129. 
They could not deny but that be [Christ) was a man of 
God, of t'Xfiniilar sanctity, of an angelical chastity. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 21. 
He was a man of great parts and very exemplar virtues. 
Clarendon, Great Rebellion. 
2f. Conveying a warning; fitted to warn or de- 
ter. 
One judicial and exemplar iniquity in the face of the 
world doth trouble the fountains of justice more than 
many particular injuries passed over by connivance. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 315. 
3. Pertaining or relating to an example or to 
examples; containing or constituting an ex- 
ample Exemplar proposition, in logic, a proposition 
which states something to be true of an example of a class: 
namely, either of any example which may be chosen, as 
"any man would struggle for his life," or of a suitably 
chosen example, as " a man has been caught up to heaven," 
or of any proportion of examples as they occur, as "a 
citizen of the United States is about as likely to belong 
to one political party as to the other." Many proposi- 
tions in the logic of relatives can hardly be expressed other- 
wise than in the exemplar form. Such is the following: 
" Through any four given points and tangent to any given 
line two conies can be drawn." 
exemplar (eg-zem'plar), . [< ME. exemplaire, 
< OF. exemplaire, essemplaire, F. exemplaire = 
Sp. ejemplar = Pg. exemplar = It. esemplare = 
D. exemplaar = G. Dan. Sw. exemplar, < L. ex- 
emplar, rarely exemplare, neut., exemplaris, m., 
LL. also exemplarium, neut., a copy, pattern, 
model, example, < exemplaris (LL.), that serves 
as a pattern or model: see exemplar, a.] 1. A 
model, original, or pattern to be copied or imi- 
tated; the idea or image of a thing formed in 
the mind ; an archetype. 
The idea and esemplar of the world was first in God. 
Sir W. Raleigh. 
We are fallen from the pure exemplar and idea of our 
nature. Sir T. Bnvme, Christ. Mor., i. 28. 
The second [kind of verse] was of a didactic, yet ele- 
vated, nature, and had the imaginative strain of Words- 
worth for its loftiest exemplar. Stedman, Viet. Poets, p. 4. 
2. A specimen ; a copy, especially a copy of a 
book or writing. 
They [the printers] desyred hym . . . diligently to over- 
loke and peruse the hole copy, and in case he should fynd 
any notable default that needed correction, to amende 
the same according to the true exemplars. 
Taverner, Ded. to New Test (1530). 
This epistle he wrote from Athenes by Tichicus, a ruin- 
Istre, after the Grekes writinges : and our Latine argu- 
mentes saye also, that Onesimus bare him cumpanye : how- 
beit there is no certayne auctonr in the commune exrm- 
plares. J. If dull, Pref. to 1 Thes. 
exemplarily (ek'sem- or eg-zem'pla-ri-li), adv. 
\. In an exemplary or excellent manner; in a 
manner to deserve imitation. 
A blessed creature she was, and one that loved and 
feared God exemplarily. Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 18, 1678. 
2. In a manner that may warn others ; in such 
a manner that others may be deterred or re- 
strained from evil; by way of example. 
Some he punisheth exemplarily in this world. 
Ifakeicill, Apology. 
exemplariness (ek'sem- or eg-zem'pla-ri-nes), 
. The state or quality of being exemplary. 
None should know(things better and) better things than 
princes ; for their virtues and their vices, ... by an influ- 
ential f.r?mplarine8g, fashion and sway their subjects. 
Works, II. 311. 
exemplarityt (ek-sem-plar'i-til. ii. [= F. er- 
riHpliiritS = !'<;. t.n nijilaridade = It. csemplarita, 
< ML. excmplarita(t-)s, < LL. exemplaris, exem- 
exemplify 
plary: gee exemplar, a., exemplary.] 1. Exem- 
plarmi **. 
This Is a scheme of Christian religion that some men 
have laid down to themselves ; and if It lie a true one, 
then what hucomcK of the rxemplaTity of Christ's li 
Abp. Khnr,i, Works, V. v. 
2. The quality of serving as a warning. 
The evil also shall full upon then persons, like the pun- 
ishment of quarU'rin:: tiait"i>. . . . punishment with the 
circumstances of detestation uu<l . si melanin. 
Jer. Taylur, Works (ed. 18S5), II. 38. 
exemplary (ek'sem- or eg-zem'pla-ri), a. [Ear- 
ly mod. t. also exemplarie, examplarie ; < LL. 
exemplaris, that serves as a pattern or model : 
see exemplar, a.] 1. Serving fora pattern of 
model for imitation ; worthy of imitation. 
Therefore the good and exemplarie things and actions 
of the former ages were reserucd only to the historical! 
reportes of wise and graiic men : th ose of the present time 
left to the fruition and ludgement of our sences. 
Pvttenham, Arte of Eng. 1'ocsie, p. 32. 
We are not of opinion, therefore, as some are, that na- 
ture In working hath In-fore her certayne exemplarie [In 
some editions examplarie} draugbtes or patUrnes. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, I. i 3. 
The archbishops and bishops have the government of 
the church : . . . their lives and doctrine ought to be ex- 
emplary. Bacon. 
2. Such as may serve for a warning to others ; 
such as may deter from wrong-doing : as, exem- 
plary punishment. 
In the fourth Year of the Queen, exemplary Justice was 
done upon a great Person. Baker, Chronicles, p. 323. 
Vague as were Arran's allusions to his royal descent, 
they were followed, within the year, by his exemplary fall 
from power and wealth and titles. 
..V. and Q., 7th ser., V. 469. 
3f. Serving as an examplej whether good or 
bad ; attracting imitation ; influential. 
Besides the good and bad of Princes Is more exemplarie, 
and thereby of greater moment, than the prluate persons. 
fultenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 34. 
4f. Exemplifying; serving as an illustration. 
Exemplari/ is the coat of George Villiers, Duke of Buck- 
ingham; live scallop-shells on a plain cross, speaking his 
predecessors' valour in the holy war. 
fuller, Holy War, p. 271. 
Exemplary damages. See damage. 
exemplaryt (ek sem- or eg-zem'pla-ri), n. [< 
LL. exemplarium, also exemplaris, a copy: see 
exemplar?] An exemplar ; a specimen ; a copy, 
as of a book or writing. Drmne. 
Whereof doth it come that the exemplarift and copies 
of many books do vary, but by such means? 
Hunting of Purgatory (1561), fol. 322, b. 
exemplifiable (eg-zem'pli-fi-a-bl), a. [< exem- 
plify + -able.] Capable of being exemplified. 
exemplification (eg-zem'pli-n-ka'shon), n. [= 
Sp. exemplification = Pg. exemplifiea<;lto = It. es- 
emplificazione, < ML. excmplijicatio(n-), < exem- 
plificare, exemplify: see exemplify.] 1. The act 
of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by 
example. 
For the more exemplification of the same, he sent the 
Lorde de Roche with letters of credence. 
Hall, Hen. VIII., an. 22. 
It is to be remarked, that many words written alike are 
differently pronounced, ... of which the exemplification 
may be generally given by a distich. 
Johnson, Plan of Eng. Diet. 
2. That which exemplifies; something that 
serves for illustration, as of a principle, the- 
ory, or the like. 
Alone of vice, as such, a delighting in sin for its own 
sake, is an imitation or rather an exemplification of the 
malice of the devil. Smith. 
3. A copy or transcript ; especially, an attested 
copy, as of a record, under seal ; an exemplified 
copy (which see, under exemplify). 
An ambassador of Scotland demanded an exemplification 
of the articles of peace. Sir ./. Hayward. 
exemplifier (eg-zem'pli-fi-er), n. One who ex- 
emplifies ; one whose character or action serves 
for exemplification. 
Nor can any man with clear confidence say that Jesus 
(the author, master, and exempl\f<ier of these doctrines) is 
the Lord, ... but by the Holy Ghost. 
Barrow, Works, III. Ixv. 
exemplify (eg-zem'pli-fi), r. t. ; pret. and pp. 
exemplified, ppr. i-fcni/iUfi/iiir/. [= Pr. Pg. exem- 
plificar = Sp. cjempUfiear = It. esemplificare, < 
ML. exemplificare, show by example, transcribe, 
narrate, < L. exemplum, example, + facere, 
make: see example and -fy.] 1. To show or 
illustrate by example. 
He did but . . . exemplify the principles in which he 
had been brought up. '. 
Learn we might, if not too proud to stoop 
To quadruped instructors, many a good 
And useful quality, and virtue too, 
Rarely exemplified among ourselves. 
Cmcper, Task, vi. 624. 
