EXPLICATE

a. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Evolved; unfolded. Jer. Taylor.

2.
v.

To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] "They explicate the leaves." Blackmore.

3.
v.

To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated. Dryden.

← EXPLICABLENESS E — all words EXPLICATION →
Browse all “E” words Find “EXPLICATE” in other definitions

98,828 entries. Headwords are matched first, then definition text.