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/klˈɛrəfˌaɪ/ Listen

verb

Clarify v. t. (past & past part. clarified; pres. part. clarifying)

To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; said of liquids, as wine or sirup. "Boiled and clarified."

To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate. "To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will."

To glorify. (Obs.) "Fadir, clarifie thi name."

Clarify v. i.

To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.

To grow clear or bright; to clear up. "Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the discoursing with another."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... with "Mademoiselle de Maupin" and it did more than to reveal and clarify the ideas we were seeking. It would be vain for me, as for any other man, to attempt to follow the course of an idea and to try to determine its action upon life. Perhaps the part of the book which ...

— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore

... about to take place at the Weights and Measures was ordained to be the first of those examinations which, under the auspices of Sir Gregory Hardlines, were destined to revivify, clarify, and render perfect the Civil Service of the country. It was a great triumph to Sir Gregory to see the darling object of his heart thus commencing its existence in the very cradle in which he, as an infant Hercules, ...

— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope

... it distinctly understood that I am not a partisan. I am not pro this or pro that or pro anything except pro-American, and the principal impulse I have in trying to clarify my mind is my hope that there may be an end to these hysterical exhibitions of partisanship, in which (throughout this neutral nation) men indulge who still hold too strongly, as I think, to the glory, honor, dignity, and traditions of the ...

— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 - What Americans Say to Europe • Various

... the English reader due to the architecture of relative clauses, prepositions, and verbs as carried over from the original German. It is the preparer's ambition for a second Gutenberg edition of the History of Rome to reconstruct and clarify the most turgid specimens. ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... express aim is to clarify our minds, to make us think lucidly and in consequence speak with precision. We have already seen what value he sets on the right word in the right place. He is the enemy of all those who shamble along ...

— Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France • Edmund Gosse

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