explicable
[ek-spli-kuh-buh l, ik-splik-uh-buh l]
- capable of being explained.
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Origin of explicable
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Examples from the Web for explicable
Contemporary Examples
Looking for the explicable in a case that seems so inexplicable is what the air crash investigators have to do.
Historical Examples
A beauty not explicable is dearer than a beauty which we can see to the end of.
Essays, Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
Many other facts are, as it seems to me, explicable on this theory.
If she hadn't loved him her course might have been explicable.
The Letter of the ContractBasil King
This adaptation is not explicable in terms of the old mental “faculties.”
The Measurement of IntelligenceLewis Madison Terman
Their influence upon her life is explicable alone by the nature of her longings.
Sister CarrieTheodore Dreiser
explicable
- capable of being explained
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Word Origin and History for explicable
adj.
1550s, from or on model of Latin explicabilis "capable of being unraveled, that may be explained," from explicare (see explicit). Middle English had a verb expliken "explain, interpret" (mid-15c.).
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