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View synonyms for explicate
explicate
[ ek-spli-keyt ]
verb (used with object)
, ex·pli·cat·ed, ex·pli·cat·ing.
- to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.
- to develop (a principle, theory, etc.).
explicate
/ ɪkˈsplɪkətərɪ; -trɪ; ɪkˈsplɪkətɪv; ˈɛksplɪˌkeɪt /
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
C16: from Latin explicāre to unfold, from plicāre to fold
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Example Sentences
To further explicate the obvious: “Uncommon”—i.e., adulterous—“arrangements vary hugely.”
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Science takes as its province mechanical causes, and leaves formal and final causes to the philosopher to explicate.
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An attempt to explicate them from the congruity and incongruity of Bodies: what those proprieties are.
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We have merely to explicate the idea of intelligent spirit possessing being in its plenitude.
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But Marie say there is the miss understand in our letters she cannot explicate.
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Whether, if so, this will not explicate the Phnomena of the Clouds.
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