explicate

Definition

To explain meticulously or in great detail.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”).

Example Sentences

• "My homework is to explicate a poem."
• "It is an act of grace and higheſt honour that we duſt and aſhes are admitted to ſpeak to the Eternal God, to run to him as to a Father, to lay open our wants, to complain of our burdens, to explicate our ſcruples, to beg remedy & eaſe, ſupport and counſel, health and ſafety, deliverance & ſalvation: […]"
• "Alternatively, there is the possibility of an extended narration composed of events that are not (wholly) explicated but are, nevertheless, possible and may even have taken place."

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