1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiii. sig. Fviii To him belongeth the explicating or vnfoldinge of sentence.

1649 H. Hammond Mysterium Religionis Recognitum 7 The re-erecting, or new explicating, and furbushing the Old Law, The Law of Nature, which is common to Man-kinde.

1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. Dissolution World v. 136 For the better explicating of Natural Things.

1730 D. Turner Force Mother's Imagination upon Fœtus 141 In the explicating of their Parts, they might lay hold and fasten, particularly about the Trunk, each to the other.

1842 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 287 According to our author, there are two principal processes by which science is constructed—the explicating of conceptions, and the colligation of facts.

1920 S. Radhakrishnan Reign Relig. in Contemp. Philos. iv. 123 Evolution suggests the explicating of what is implicit from the first.

2004 MIS Q. 28 480/1 This is a challenging undertaking that first requires explicating of characters, events, and the causal relationships in a process as the basis of theory development.

a1630 Faithful Friends (1975) iv. i. 2463 Surcease a while this explicating joy.

1904 National Conf. on Secondary Educ. & Its Probl. 150 It is only in its purely biological phases that the development theory appeals to the explicating understanding of the high-school age.

2001 J. O. Askedal in M. Haspelmath Lang. Typology & Lang. Universals II. xv. cxiv.1632/1 Frequent use of rhematizing or explicating afterthought constructions is supposed to have caused shifts from basic SOV to SVO.