[a. Gr. ἐπεξήγησις, f. ἐπεξηγεῖσθαι, f. ἐπί in addition + ἐξηγεῖσθαι to explain: see EXEGESIS.] The addition of a word or words to convey more clearly the meaning implied, or the specific sense intended, in a preceding word or sentence; a word or words added for this purpose.
1621. Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 163. The latter part of the Apostles assertion, is an epexegesis, or explication, of the former. Ibid. (a. 1641), Acts & Mon. (1624), 130. Primarily and literally, not Princes, but Prophets, which is an epexegesis of Anointed.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 4 Oct., 3/1. The above may be very sound epexegesis.
1889. Miss Betham-Edwards, A. Young, Introd. p. xxxiii. These jottings of old age, interesting as they are, err on the side of redundancy and epexegesis.
