explicate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: explicate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for explicate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
explicate v make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students" Synonym(s): explain, explicate elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis" Synonym(s): explicate, formulate, develop
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Explicate \Ex"pli*cate\, a. [L. explicatus, p. p. of explicare.] Evolved; unfolded. --Jer. Taylor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Explicate \Ex"plicate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Explicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Explicating}.] 1. To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] [bd]They explicate* the leaves.[b8] --Blackmore. 2. 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. --Dryden.