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Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

Serving to explain; demonstrative.

beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs. Evolution is to me seri…

The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. Swift.

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.

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.

ommentary. All this, without a gloss or comment, He would unriddle in a moment. Hudibras. Explaining the text in short glosses. T. Baker.

a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.

One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.