explicate
verb
- make clear or explicit
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.splɪˌkeɪt/ / /ˈɛk.spləˌkeɪt/ / /ˈek.splɪˌkæɪt/
adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”).
- Evolved; unfolded.
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”).
- To explain meticulously or in great detail.
“My homework is to explicate a poem.”
“It is an act of grace and higheſt honour that we duſt and aſhes are admitted to ſpeak to the Eternal God, to run to him as to a Father, to lay open our wants, to complain of our burdens, to explicate our ſcruples, to beg remedy & eaſe, ſupport and counſel, health and ſafety, deliverance & ſalvation: […]”