† dilucidationn.
Obsolete.
The action of making lucid or clear; a clearing up; explanation, elucidation.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun]
keyeOE
undoinga1330
expositiona1340
declarationc1374
declaringc1374
clearingc1380
expoundingc1380
explanationa1382
interpretation1382
exploitingc1390
unfolding1483
explicating1531
explication1537
clearance?1548
elucidation1570
explaining1576
manifestation1576
untwining1577
illustration1581
untwisting1591
eviscerating1599
unclouding1601
enodation1603
opening1611
dilucidation1615
unsnarling1640
declarement1646
enucleation1650
illumination1656
dilucidatinga1660
luciferousness1665
clarifying1677
unravelling1713
disentanglement1751
exegesis1770
disambiguation1827
evisceration1831
keyword1848
clarificationa1866
exponence1880
exponency1880
straightening1900
demystification1964
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 698 It remaineth that wee proceede vnto the dilucidation of some difficult questions concerning the Eares.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Qqq3v It needs no further dilucidation.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 121 As Marcellus Donatus observed in his Dilucidations of Livie.
1744 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl. 79 A full Dilucidation of my four Propositions.
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