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explicate Definition

ex·pli·cate (eks′pli kāt′)

transitive verb -·cat′ed, -·cat′·ing

to make clear or explicit (something obscure or implied); explain fully

Etymology: < L explicatus, pp. of explicare, to unfold < ex-, out + plicare, to fold: see flax

explicate Related Forms

ex′·pli·ca′·tion noun ex′·pli·ca′·tive (eks′pli kāt′iv, ik splik′ə tiv) adjective or ex′·pli·ca·to′ryeks′pli kə tôr′ē, ik splik′ə- ex′·pli·ca′·tor noun

explicate Synonyms

explicate

v.

clarify, illustrate, interpret; see explain. See syn. study at explain.

explicate Usage Examples

Object

  • concept: Chisholm has explicated the concept he has in mind sufficiently to distinguish it from Feldman's.
  • nature: Focusing on economic diplomacy, it explicates the nature of political economy on foreign policy processes.
  • process: Visual art affords not only a meaningful, self-directed dance of the eyes, but also a meaningful dance of this emotional explicating process.
  • relationship: To explicate this relationship in all its complexity, I will proceed in four steps.
  • way: It can explicate the ways that meanings are produced within a hypertext, lay bare the inter-relations of codes.
  • notion: Doing so will allow us to concentrate on explicating the notion of a RMC.

Used with why or when

  • what: I won't have time to fully explicate what 's on here, but this is the top level.
  • why: The paper proceeds by explicating why it is important to implement primary preventative measures within general practice.

Modifying Another Word

  • fully: The primary research methodology is problem-solving itself, which often, in practice, cannot be fully explicated.
  • clearly: Many of his views and statements are misleading as to my intentions, which were available and clearly explicated in my book.
  • only: Clearly one is not thereby " creating " but only explicating its notion, else no particular example of it could ever be identified.

Preposition: in

detail: Steps that follow that shape ( this would have to be explicated in some detail ) make a helical staircase.