Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HER-ME-NEU'TIC, or HER-ME-NEU'TIC-AL
HER-MAPH-RO-DIT'IC-AL-LYHER-ME-NEU'TIC-AL-LY
HER-ME-NEU'TIC, or HER-ME-NEU'TIC-AL, a. [Gr. ερμηνευτικος, from ερμηνευς, an interpreter, from ερμης, Mercury.]
Interpreting; explaining; unfolding the signification; as, hermeneutic theology, the art of expounding the Scriptures. Bloomfield. Encyc.
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