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explicate
[ ek-spli-keyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.
- to develop (a principle, theory, etc.).
explicate
/ -trɪ; ɪkˈsplɪkətɪv; ˈɛksplɪˌkeɪt; ɪkˈsplɪkətərɪ /
verb
- to make clear or explicit; explain
- to formulate or develop (a theory, hypothesis, etc)
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Derived Forms
- explicative, adjective
- ˈexpliˌcator, noun
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Other Words From
- expli·cator noun
- re·expli·cate verb (used with object) reexplicated reexplicating
- un·expli·cated adjective
- well-expli·cated adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of explicate1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of explicate1
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Example Sentences
To further explicate the obvious: “Uncommon”—i.e., adulterous—“arrangements vary hugely.”
Science takes as its province mechanical causes, and leaves formal and final causes to the philosopher to explicate.
An attempt to explicate them from the congruity and incongruity of Bodies: what those proprieties are.
We have merely to explicate the idea of intelligent spirit possessing being in its plenitude.
But Marie say there is the miss understand in our letters she cannot explicate.
Whether, if so, this will not explicate the Phnomena of the Clouds.
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