EXPLICATED

Verb

explicated

simple past tense and past participle of explicate

Source: Wiktionary


EXPLICATE

Ex"pli*cate, a. Etym: [L. explicatus, p.p. of explicare.]

Definition: Evolved; unfolded. Jer. Taylor.

Ex"pli*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explicated(); p. pr. & vb. n. Explicating().]

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

2. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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