Usually means: Imposing personal interpretation on text.
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  1. eisegesis: Merriam-Webster
  2. eisegesis: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. eisegesis: Wordnik
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  7. eisegesis: Dictionary.com
  8. Eisegesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. eisegesis: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  11. eisegesis: FreeDictionary.org
  12. eisegesis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (eisegesis)

noun:  An interpretation, especially of Scripture, that reflects the personal ideas or viewpoint of the interpreter; reading something into a text that is not there.

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