explicate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Latin explicāre, present active infinitive of explicō (“unfold, explain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛksplɪˌkeɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkspləˌkeɪt/

Verb

1. (transitive) To explain meticulously or in great detail; to elucidate; to analyze.

   My homework is to explicate a poem.

Related terms

• explication
• explicative
• explicator
• explicit

Translations

explain meticulously

• Armenian: բացատրել (hy) (bacʻatrel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 闡明／阐明 (zh) (chǎnmíng), 阐明 (zh) (chǎnmíng), 解釋／解释 (zh) (jiěshì), 解释 (zh) (jiěshì), 辨明 (zh) (biànmíng), 闡述／阐述 (zh) (chǎnshù), 阐述 (zh) (chǎnshù)

• Czech: vysvětlit (cs), objasnit (cs), ozřejmit, interpretovat
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: selittää (fi)
• German: explizieren (de), haarklein erläutern
• Romanian: explica (ro)
• Swedish: explicera (sv)

Adjective

explicate (comparative more explicate, superlative most explicate)

1. (obsolete) Evolved; unfolded.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “explicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Adverb

explicātē (not comparable)

1. clearly, plainly

Verb

(deprecated template usage) explicāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of explicō

References

• “explicate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “explicate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• explicate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to frown: frontem contrahere (opp. explicare)
    
  • (ambiguous) to give lectures: scholas habere, explicare (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to explain one's sentiments: sententias (verbis) explicare, aperire
    
  • (ambiguous) to give a full, detailed account of a thing: pluribus verbis, copiosius explicare, persequi aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to explain a matter briefly, in a few words (not paucis verbis): breviter, paucis explicare aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to open a book: volumen explicare
    
  • (ambiguous) to extend the line of battle, deploy the battalions: aciem explicare or dilatare