Search the Dictionary

To explain; to unfold. [Obs.] Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws. B. Jonson.

Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation. It is not explicable upon any grounds. Burke.

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.

The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation. The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury.

Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration. The language of the charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt. Bancroft.

In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.

To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil. [Old Eng. & Scotch] Drummond.

Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson.

One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.

Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.

To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle. Expound this matter more fully to me. Bunyan.

One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.

A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration. [Obs.] The only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth. Jer. Taylor.

Plural of eye; obsolete, or used only in poetry. Shak. With such a plaintive gaze their eyne Are fastened upwardly on mine. Mrs. Browning.

Speech; eloquence. [Obs.] Her facound eke full womanly and plain. Chaucer.

the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff.

The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. W. Guthrie.

In a fairmanner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.