| epexegesis | |
| ep-ex-e-ge'-sis | from
Gk. epi, "in addition" and exegeisthai, "to explain" |
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When one interprets what one has just said. A kind of redefinition or self-interpretation (often signaled by constructions such as "that is to say..."). | |
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| I'm afraid we've run up against the bamboo curtain—that is to say, an economic and political barrier in the East as real as the iron curtain has been in the West. | ||
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| Sources: | Peacham (1577) T1r | |
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