hermeneutic

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HERMENEU'TIC HERMENEU'TICAL, adjective [Gr. an interpreter, from Mercury.] Interpreting; explaining; unfolding the signification; as hermeneutic theology, the art of expounding the Scriptures.
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