Explicate

//ˈɛk.splɪˌkeɪt//

"Explicate" in a Sentence (10 examples)

It took the length of a novella to fully explicate the theory in Toki Pona.

Philosophers often explicate complex ideas to reveal their underlying assumptions.

Tom began to explicate the symbolism of the painting to the curious audience.

The scientists will carefully explicate each step of the experiment for transparency.

Tom prefers to explicate rather than summarize, believing clarity is more important than brevity.

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: […]

Alternatively, there is the possibility of an extended narration composed of events that are not (wholly) explicated but are, nevertheless, possible and may even have taken place.

Isou himself, enemy of all conventional discourse, wrote hundreds, then thousands of pages explicating his theories; […]

In laying out these archetypes, Mr. Booker […] does a nimble job of collating dozens of stories, using the 34 years he says it took him to write this volume to identify and explicate all sorts of parallels and analogies that might not occur to the casual reader.

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