elucidate
verb (used with object)
had elucidated
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past perfectof elucidate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She actually had a fairly consistent criticism of Roe that she had elucidated at the time, that people took very much, I think, as a myth.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2020
A: I wish you had elucidated how you managed this remarkable transition.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2015
He had an idea that he had elucidated something.
From The Innocent Adventuress by Mary Hastings Bradley
I had treated the political history of Alexander VI and Cæsar at length, and had elucidated some of its obscure phases, but to Lucretia Borgia I had devoted no special attention.
From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius
The name and the volume of their own countryman had never reached them, who two centuries before had elucidated these chimeras.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
