单词 | explicatory |
释义 | explicatoryadj. Having the function of explaining or explicating. Also with of. Cf. explicative adj. ΘΚΠ 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 1606 T. Hutton 2nd Pt. Reasons for Refusall xi. 86 The sufficiencie of a thing, whither sacrament, signe, yea of ye word it selfe is not impeached be addition of that which is explicatorie and of good vse. 1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 304 The like explicatorie repetition is noted..to haue been vsed by the Prophet. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 113 Revelations..not explicatory or applicatory of Scripture. a1677 I. Barrow Of Love of God (1680) 82 Those Evangelical commands, explicatory of this Law. 1716 T. Vincent (title) Explicatory Catechism, or an Explanation of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism. 1778 R. Robinson in tr. J. Claude Ess. Composition Serm. I. v. 146/2 (note) Ezra indeed collected, and collated the manuscripts, perhaps..added here and there a line explicatory of the text, and arranged the whole in its present order. 1804 Trans. Linn. Soc. 7 203 It contains also explicatory tables, exhibiting the name of each shell. 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) lxxi. 377 Making every allowance..for explicatory circumstances. 1900 A. Meynell John Ruskin ii. 10 The first volume is written with extreme explicatory labour. 1953 Times 27 May 5/5 Too much contrivance and an excess of explicatory comment. 1974 M. B. Hesse Struct. Sci. Inference iv. 100 To interpret confirmation theory as part of the normal inference procedures..instead of interpreting confirmation theory as explicatory of those inferences. 2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 Sept. No more ponderous explicatory texts? No more of the sense of the curator standing between the viewer and the work? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1606 |
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