PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
The modern dictionary records the figurative sense, but the reviewed evidence does not date one secure semantic pivot.
/ɪɡˈzuːm/ · verb
To remove from burial or recover from obscurity; borrowed from Medieval Latin exhumare, literally a formation on ex, out of, and humus, earth.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
Records both senses without dating the figurative transition.
Definitions 1 and 2; Word HistoryThe semantic change remains explicit while its chronology stays unresolved.