Associations to the word «Hermeneutic»

Wiktionary

HERMENEUTIC, adjective. That explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates
HERMENEUTIC CIRCLE, noun. A framework for the interpretation of a text which considers historical, linguistic, cultural, environmental, and individualistic contexts.

Dictionary definition

HERMENEUTIC, adjective. Interpretive or explanatory.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope