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explicate

[ ek-spli-keyt ]

verb (used with object)

, ex·pli·cat·ed, ex·pli·cat·ing.
  1. to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.
  2. to develop (a principle, theory, etc.).


explicate

/ ɪkˈsplɪkətərɪ; -trɪ; ɪkˈsplɪkətɪv; ˈɛksplɪˌkeɪt /

verb

  1. to make clear or explicit; explain
  2. to formulate or develop (a theory, hypothesis, etc)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • explicative, adjective
  • ˈexpliˌcator, noun
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Other Words From

  • expli·cator noun
  • re·expli·cate verb (used with object) reexplicated reexplicating
  • un·expli·cated adjective
  • well-expli·cated adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of explicate1

1525–35; < Latin explicātus unfolded, set forth, past participle of explicāre, equivalent to ex- ex- 1 + plicāre to fold; -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of explicate1

C16: from Latin explicāre to unfold, from plicāre to fold
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Example Sentences

How he can wield such a weapon, or have modified it to serve his own aims, is never suitably explicated, nor is the reason why John is so wildly hung up on remaking the world by eliminating the human urge for deception.

The truth is, no one can fully explicate why Kipchoge is the GOAT.

The well-explicated inexplicable mystery the site hopes to have explained is presented in a video produced with the now-common aesthetic of the amateur Internet sleuth.

The homespun charms and lyrically explicated anguishes of their musical make their door one you’ll want to knock on, again.

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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