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Definition of Explicate
1. Verb. Make plain and comprehensible. "Sam and Sue explicate the movie "; "He explained the laws of physics to his students"
Generic synonyms: Inform
Specialized synonyms: Interpret, Rede, Account For, Naturalize, Clarify, Clear Up, Elucidate, Comment
Derivative terms: Explanation, Explanatory, Explication, Explication
2. Verb. Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses. "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
Related verbs: Develop, Acquire, Develop, Evolve
Generic synonyms: Conjecture, Hypothecate, Hypothesise, Hypothesize, Speculate, Suppose, Theorise, Theorize
Specialized synonyms: Mature, Redevelop, Reformulate
Derivative terms: Explication, Formulation
Definition of Explicate
1. a. Evolved; unfolded.
2. v. t. To unfold; to expand; to lay open.
Definition of Explicate
1. Verb. (transitive) To explain meticulously or in great detail; to elucidate; to analyze. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Explicate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Explicate
Literary usage of Explicate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Exegesis seeks to know, Philology, to interpret, to explicate; criticism to value
and correct. But the conditions of serviceable and artistic comprehension ..."
2. The Elements of Logic: In Four Books by William Duncan (1802)
"... from things without, or framed by the understanding itself, that we explicate
and unfold. Representation of certain determinate Notions. ..."
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