Definition of interpret

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Interpret (v. t.) To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech..

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Interpretative :: Interpretative (a.) Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.
Construction :: Construction (n.) The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense..
Amphibology :: Amphibology (n.) A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term..
Understand :: Understand (v. t.) To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
Solute :: Solute (a.) Loose; free; liberal; as, a solute interpretation..
Isagogics :: Isagogics (n.) That part of theological science directly preliminary to actual exegesis, or interpretation of the Scriptures..
Interpreted :: Interpreted (imp. & p. p.) of Interpre.
Hermeneutically :: Hermeneutically (adv.) According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically..
Import :: Import (n.) That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like..
Innuendo :: Innuendo (n.) An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief..
Poetry :: Poetry (n.) The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
Rationalize :: Rationalize (v. t.) To interpret in the manner of a rationalist.
Mystic :: Mystic (n.) One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism..
Literalize :: Literalize (v. t.) To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture..
Interpretation :: Interpretation (n.) The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma..
Interpret :: Interpret (v. i.) To act as an interpreter.
Paraphrase :: Paraphrase (v. t.) To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language..
Oneiroscopist :: Oneiroscopist (n.) One who interprets dreams.
Anagogics :: Anagogics (n. pl.) Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures..
Shiloh :: Shiloh (n.) A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as the Messiah, or as the city Shiloh, or as Rest..
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