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explicate

verb

  1. make clear or explicit
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.splɪˌkeɪt/ / /ˈɛk.spləˌkeɪt/ / /ˈek.splɪˌkæɪt/

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”).

  1. Evolved; unfolded.

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”).

  1. 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: […]