27 September 2018
explicate
[ek-spli-keyt]
verb (used with object), explicated, explicating.
1. to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.
2. to develop (a principle, theory, etc.).
Origin of explicate
Latin
1525-1535; < Latin explicātus unfolded, set forth, past participle of explicāre, equivalent to ex- ex-1+ plicāre to fold; see -ate1
Related forms
explicator, noun
reexplicate, verb (used with object), reexplicated, reexplicating.
unexplicated, adjective
well-explicated, adjective
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Examples from the Web for explicate
Historical Examples
This battle of Girondins and Mountain let no man ask history to explicate.
The World’s Greatest Books, Vol XII.
Arthur Mee
But Marie say there is the miss understand in our letters she cannot explicate.
Deer Godchild
Marguerite Bernard and Edith Serrell
Whether, if so, this will not explicate the Phnomena of the Clouds.
Micrographia
Robert Hooke
We have merely to explicate the idea of intelligent spirit possessing being in its plenitude.
The Catholic World. Volume III; Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
E. Rameur
Science takes as its province mechanical causes, and leaves formal and final causes to the philosopher to explicate.
A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
W. T. Stace
An attempt to explicate them from the congruity and incongruity of Bodies: what those proprieties re.
Micrographia
Robert Hooke
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Today’s quote
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
– Samuel Adams
On this day
27 September 1540 – The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius Loyola.
27 September 1660 – death of St Vincent de Paul, Catholic priest, born in France, who dedicated himself to serving the poor. Born 24 April 1581.
27 September 1722 – birth of Samuel Adams, American revolutionary and founding father. Died 2 October 1803.
27 September 1947 – birth of Marvin Lee Aday, American rocker – otherwise known as Meatloaf.
27 September 1961 – birth of Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer – ‘Train-spotting‘, ‘Ecstasy‘.
27 September 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cuban embassy in Mexico to apply for a Cuban visa. The embassy initially denies the visa, stating that the man was not Lee Harvey Oswald. The embassy said he would need Soviet approval. Following scrutiny from the KGB and CIA, and intense debate between the Soviets, Cuba and Oswald (?) the visa was finally issued. Oswald, or the man purporting to be Oswald, never travelled to Cuba, but returned to the U.S. on 3 October 1963 … conspiracy, anyone?