STOKE LAND » vocabulary http://www.miller-david.com Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:42:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 vocabulary: mimesis / exegesis http://www.miller-david.com/2010/04/07/vocabulary-mimesis/ http://www.miller-david.com/2010/04/07/vocabulary-mimesis/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:49:10 +0000 David Miller http://www.miller-david.com/?p=883 mi·me·sis n.

1. The imitation or representation of aspects of the sensible world, especially human actions, in literature and art.
2. Biology Mimicry.

3. Medicine The appearance, often caused by hysteria, of symptoms of a disease not actually present.

ex·e·ge·sis

n. pl. ex·e·ge·ses (-sz)

Critical explanation or analysis, especially of a text.
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adj.

Of or characteristic of a prophet; oracular.
Ex: “His writing is fucking vatic.”
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