What does explicate mean?
Explicate means (transitive) To explain meticulously or in great detail..
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/ˈɛk.splɪˌkeɪt/ · verb
(transitive) To explain meticulously or in great detail..
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.
Use explicate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Explicate means (transitive) To explain meticulously or in great detail..
Common synonyms include analyze, elucidate, explicitate, develop.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My homework is to explicate a poem.
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