Explicate meaning

ĕksplĭ-kāt
explicated explicates explicating
See word origin
Frequency:
To make clear or explicit (something obscure or implied); explain fully.
verb
2
0
Explicate is defined as to analyze something to discover its meaning, or to develop something in further detail.

Analyzing a book to discover its meaning is an example of a time when you explicate.

verb
2
1
To make clear the meaning of; explain.
verb
0
0
To explain meticulously or in great detail; to elucidate; to analyze.

My homework is to explicate a poem.

verb
0
0
(obsolete) Evolved; unfolded.

adjective
0
1
Advertisement

Origin of explicate

  • Latin explicāre explicāt- to unfold, explain ex- ex- plicāre to fold plek- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin explicāre, present active infinitive of explicō (“unfold", "to explain”).

    From Wiktionary

Explicate Sentence Examples

  • There are some areas of life that rationalism cannot explicate.

  • To explicate, however, and purge the meaning of that "strong heart" and "clean" which the savage after his fashion can wish and ask for, remained the task of the higher and more self-conscious types of religion.

More sentences →

Related articles

Words near explicate in the Dictionary