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/ˈɛkspləkˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

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."

adjective

Explicate adj. Evolved; unfolded.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Explicate" Quotes from Famous Books

... I would have thee answer me to this also; dost thou remember that thou art a man?" "Why should I not remember it?" quoth I. "Well then, canst thou explicate what man is?" "Dost thou ask me if I know that I am a reasonable and mortal living creature? I know and confess myself to be so." To which she replied: "Dost thou not know thyself to be ...

— The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

... are Contrary to the very Principles of the Chymists; From whose writings it is not Therefore like he should receive any intentionall Assistance, except from some Passages of the Bold and Ingenious Helmont, with whom he yet disagrees in many things (which reduce him to explicate Divers Chymical Phaenomena, according to other Notions;) And of whose Ratiocinations, not only some seem very Extravagant, but even the Rest are not wont to be as considerable as his Experiments. And though it be True indeed, that some Aristotelians ...

— The Sceptical Chymist • Robert Boyle