explicate
to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.
to develop (a principle, theory, etc.).
Origin of explicate
1Other words from explicate
- ex·pli·ca·tor, noun
- re·ex·pli·cate, verb (used with object), re·ex·pli·cat·ed, re·ex·pli·cat·ing.
- un·ex·pli·cat·ed, adjective
- well-ex·pli·cat·ed, adjective
Words Nearby explicate
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How to use explicate in a sentence
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.
Netflix’s ‘The Sandman’ Is One Terribly Boring Fantasy Series | Nick Schager | August 5, 2022 | The Daily BeastThe 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.
A conspiracy website will pay you $10,000 to bring it back to reality | Philip Bump | July 30, 2021 | Washington PostThe homespun charms and lyrically explicated anguishes of their musical make their door one you’ll want to knock on, again.
Give this folk rock duo 27 minutes. They’ll give you a musically heartbreaking world. | Peter Marks | March 18, 2021 | Washington PostTo 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.
A Critical History of Greek Philosophy | W. T. StaceAn attempt to explicate them from the congruity and incongruity of Bodies: what those proprieties are.
Micrographia | Robert HookeWe 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.
Deer Godchild | Marguerite Bernard and Edith SerrellWhether, if so, this will not explicate the Phnomena of the Clouds.
Micrographia | Robert Hooke
British Dictionary definitions for explicate
/ (ˈɛksplɪˌkeɪt) /
to make clear or explicit; explain
to formulate or develop (a theory, hypothesis, etc)
Origin of explicate
1Derived forms of explicate
- explicative (ɪkˈsplɪkətɪv) or explicatory (ɪkˈsplɪkətərɪ, -trɪ), adjective
- explicator, noun
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