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/ɪˈl(j)uːsɪdeɪt/ · verb
(obsolete) To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”)..
Let me hear vvhat your ovvn conceptions are of the matter, if they tend to elucidate or reconcile.
Dining at Mr. [Samuel] Pepys's, Dr. Slayer shewed us an experiment of a wonderful nature, […] This matter or phosphorus was made out of human blood and urine, elucidating the vital flame or heate in animal bodys.
The antiquities of France have been elucidated by a learned and ingenious people: […]
The business however, though not perfectly elucidated by this speech, soon ceased to be a puzzle.
Peter elucidateth the Frauds in Literature by a Smock Race.
His notes abound with interesting quotations, and have the rare merit of really elucidating the text.
[W]e find no need of, and no use for, the peculiar technical terminology which he and his masters the Germans have introduced into philosophy, […] which this language, in our judgment, serves not to elucidate, but to disguise and obscure.
[A]s it is known that he [Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne] was eminently successful in elucidating the physiology of the muscles of the hand by the aid of electricity, it is probably that he is generally in the right about the muscles of the face.
Use elucidate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Elucidate means (obsolete) To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”)..
Common synonyms include explain, explicate, apparent, arrant.
Possible antonyms include adiaphanous, nontransparent, opacous, opacular.
Let me hear vvhat your ovvn conceptions are of the matter, if they tend to elucidate or reconcile.
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