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▪ I. † diˈlucidate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. dīlūcidātus, pa. pple. of dīlūcidāre to make clear, to explain, f. dīlūcid-us: see prec.]
Made clear or lucid; = prec. Hence † dilucidateness.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋297 Very often more dilucidate in their abstracted part. 1727Bailey vol. II, Dilucidateness..clearness, plainness.
▪ II. † diˈlucidate, v. Obs.
Also 6–7 de-.
[f. L. dīlūcidāt- ppl. stem of dīlūcidāre: see prec.]
trans. To make clear or plain; to elucidate.
1538St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 576 Such annotacions.. as shall douteles delucidate and cleare the same. 1611Cotgr., Dilucider, to cleere, dilucidate, explain, manifest. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 95 Till time might delucidate his innocency. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xxxviii, He has..examined every part of it dialectically..dilucidating it with all the light which..the collision of his own natural parts could strike. 1764T. Phillips Life Reg. Pole (1767) I. 43 His conscience was interested in having the lawfulness of it dilucidated.
Hence diˈlucidated ppl. a.; dilucidating vbl. n.; dilucidator.
a1660Hammond Wks. II. iii. 6 (R.) For the dilucidating of obscurities in ancient story. 1689(title), The Dilucidator, or Reflections upon modern transactions, by way of Letters from a person at Amsterdam to his friend in London. 1759Dilworth Pope 2 A concise and dilucidated account of the life of Pope. |