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Definition of Explicates
1. explicate [v] - See also: explicate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Explicates
Literary usage of Explicates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"But if there be three disjunct members, as A—x BCD, in that case there are six
absolute explicates, three positive and three negative, and, moreover, ..."
2. Prolegomena to the Study of Hegel's Philosophy and Especially of His Logic by William Wallace (1894)
"Hence philosophy "explicates" itself only when it "explicates" religion; and in
explicating itself it explicates religion. ..."
3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822)
"However, he that explicates the article, and thinks it means as he says, does
all the honour he can to the authority; whose words if he does not understand, ..."
4. The Academy: A Journal of Secondary Education by Associated Principles of the High Schools and Academies of the State of New York (1890)
"... explicates various relations, as the same relation may explicate itself by
many lines of conjunctional development (cf. expecto si, ut, ..."
5. Elements of Deductive Logic by Noah Knowles Davis (1894)
"A division explicates or evolves subordinate concepts; a definition explicates
or evolves marks. The one develops the sphere, the other the comprehension. ..."
6. The Library Magazine (1887)
"The relation between the three divisions or disciplines may be exhibited thus:
The first vindicates and explicates the idea of God, the second vindicates ..."
7. The Court of the Gentiles, Or, A Discourse Touching the Original of Human by Theophilus Gale (1677)
"... explicates in what follows. (i) He makes the origine, end, ... explicates in
what immediately follows : Mt ..."
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