Explicate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Explicate \Ex"pli*cate\, a. [L. explicatus, p. p. of explicare.]
     Evolved; unfolded. --Jer. Taylor.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Explicate \Ex"pli*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Explicated}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Explicating}.]
     1. To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] "They explicate
        the leaves." --Blackmore.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of
        difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The last verse of his last satire is not yet
              sufficiently explicated.              --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  explicate
       v 1: make palin and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of
            physics to his students" [syn: {explain}]
       2: elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop
          the ideas in your thesis" [syn: {formulate}, {develop}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "explicate":
     account for, allegorize, amplify, clarify, clear up, construe,
     crack, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, descant, detail,
     develop, dilate, elaborate, elucidate, enlarge, enlarge upon,
     enlighten, euhemerize, evolve, exemplify, expand, expatiate,
     explain, explain away, exposit, expound, get across, get over,
     give reason for, give the meaning, illuminate, illustrate,
     interpret, make clear, make it clear, make plain, particularize,
     popularize, put across, put over, rationalize, rehearse in extenso,
     relate at large, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way,
     simplify, solve, spell out, throw light upon, unfold, unlock,
     unravel, vulgarize, work out