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Explicate v. t. (past & past part. explicated; pres. part. explicating)

To unfold; to expand; to lay open. (Obs.) "They explicate the leaves."

To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. "The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated."

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Etymology of 'Explicate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Explicate" Quotes from Famous Books

... thought, which said, that God walked up and down in heaven, and thinketh never a deal of our affairs. But, my good brethren, err not you so; stick not you to such your imaginations. For if ye inwardly behold these words, if ye diligently roll them in your minds, and after explicate and open them, ye shall see our time much touched in these mysteries. Ye shall perceive that God by this example shaketh us by the noses and pulleth us by the ears. Ye shall perceive very plain, that God setteth before our eyes in this similitude what we ought most to ...

— Sermons on the Card and Other Discourses • Hugh Latimer

Words linked to "Explicate" : redevelop, suppose, inform, hypothesize, formulate, account for, acquire, theorise, clarify, reformulate, hypothecate, theorize, explication, mature, clear up, naturalize, evolve