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单词 explanative
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explanativeadj.

Brit. /ᵻkˈsplanətɪv/, /ɛkˈsplanətɪv/, U.S. /ᵻkˈsplænədɪv/, /ɛkˈsplænədɪv/
Forms: late Middle English explanatif, 1600s– explanative.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin explanativus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin explanativus explanatory (4th cent.) < classical Latin explānāt- , past participial stem of explānāre explain v. + -īvus -ive suffix.
Now rare.
Providing an explanation; helping to explain; explanatory.The meaning intended in quot. a1500 is uncertain: the apparently corresponding Latin phrase in the original source is virtus regia et voluntaria, ‘royal and voluntary power’.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adjective]
explanativea1500
expositive1535
resolutory1567
interpretative1569
expounding1571
illustrating1589
explanatory1600
explicative1602
explicatory1606
expository1628
clarifying1630
illustrative1643
luciferous1648
omnilucent1651
explaining?1683
illustratorya1734
elucidatory1774
elucidative1822
irradiativea1834
expositional1845
resolvent1856
enucleating1862
expositionary1882
luminant1891
interpreting1892
clarificatory1945
FYI1973
a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 73 Than þe roiall vertue explanatif, þat is in kynges of thair originall, gouerneth to 40 yere.
1643 R. More tr. J. Mede Key Revelation ii. 67 For the Hebrew vau and thence καὶ in the Scripture is a conjunction not onely Copulative, but also disjunctive, rationall, causall, ordinative, explanative [L. explanativa], as the reason of the sense requireth.
1674 G. Whitehead Quakers Plainness ii. ii. 68 See here how he and you have left out the very principal and explanative Part of the same Sentence.
1750 W. Warburton Julian ii. 181 What follows..is explanative of what went before.
1837 New Monthly Mag. 51 117 He grows more explicit and explanative.
1887 Public Opinion 28 May 168/2 This is followed by an explanative account, it can hardly be called a review, of Lafenstre's ‘Titian’.
1902 Brief 4 174 One's last will and testament no longer contains an explanative statement of the views of this life and the hereafter.
1975 Motor Boating & Sailing Feb. 4/2 I've found your articles to be explanative and interesting.
2009 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 15 Oct. The prose is remarkably explanative, if sometimes repetitious, and never weighed down by excessive scientific terminology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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