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Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted. Sir. T. Browne.

One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.

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.

Explanatory.

The quality of being explanatory.

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

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

Accomplishment; fulfillment. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. "Expletive imagery." Hallam. Expletive phrases to plump his speech. Barrow.

In the manner of an expletive.

Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. Bp. Burnet.

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

Quality of being explicable.

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

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.

Explicative. Barrow.

y 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.