Definition of interpret

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Interpret (v. t.) To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape..

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Constructional :: Constructional (a.) Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation..
Interpreting :: Interpreting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interpre.
Prophesy :: Prophesy (v. i.) To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound.
Noumenon :: Noumenon (n.) The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers..
Interpretative :: Interpretative (a.) Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.
Prophet :: Prophet (n.) An interpreter; a spokesman.
Oneirocritical :: Oneirocritical (a.) Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams.
Gloss :: Gloss (n.) An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary..
Rationalize :: Rationalize (v. t.) To interpret in the manner of a rationalist.
Exposition :: Exposition (n.) The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary..
Liturgics :: Liturgics (n.) The science of worship; history, doctrine, and interpretation of liturgies..
Dragoman :: Dragoman (n.) An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.
Cabala :: Cabala (n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means..
Double-entendre :: Double-entendre (n.) A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate..
Expound :: Expound (v. t.) To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle..
Read :: Read (v. t.) To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book..
Fraunhofer Lines :: Fraunhofer lines () The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist..
Anagogics :: Anagogics (n. pl.) Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures..
Hermeneutics :: Hermeneutics (n.) The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained..
Interpreted :: Interpreted (imp. & p. p.) of Interpre.
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