exegete n a person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts) Usage(s) Magritte has no fear, no hate, no love, no regrets, no hope: he is a tranquil man, an illustrator of metaphor, an exegete of domesticated mysteries. Chambers, says Buckley, "was an anti-theory man, a poetnot an exegete. A good example of the critical genre appeared in New York, by de Kooning's longstanding friend, exegete and collector, Thomas Hess.