| Exegesis 1. (n.) A critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture. 2. (n.) The process of finding the roots of an equation. Thesaurus Entries allegorization, annotation, apparatus criticus, clarification, comment, commentary, commentation, construction, cracking, decipherment, decoding, demonstration, demythologization, editing, elucidation, emendation, enlightenment, euhemerism, exemplification, explanation, explication, expose, exposition, expounding, footnote, gloss, illumination, illustration, interpretation, light, notation, note, note of explanation, rationale, reason, scholium, simplification, solution, unlocking, word of explanation |