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Definition of explicate in English: explicateverb ˈɛksplɪkeɪtˈɛkspləˌkeɪt [with object]1Analyse and develop (an idea or principle) in detail. an attempt to explicate the relationship between crime and economic forces Example sentencesExamples - He also demonstrates his usual fairness and balance in explicating the theological opinion to the effect that there is a possibility that all may be saved.
- Within this framework, Barnave's revolutionary political ideas will be explicated.
- His commentary shows the great care and precision of a thoughtful and dedicated interpreter who is explicating the categories through a close reading of the text.
- He both re-emphasizes and thoroughly explicates the details of this approach.
- A great deal of Tilly's problem in briefly explicating his ideas flows from the enormous nature of the change proposed.
- And while he may have lacked the gene for self-promotion, it is not as if no one else in public life had the opportunity to explicate his ideas for a larger public.
- The researcher's race, background, and research assumptions were explicated in a research journal providing readers with a context for critique.
- Before mentioning these myths and stereotypes, let me explicate a developmental theory, for good theory and science enhance each other for practice.
- The rendition in the previous sections is meant to explicate the core ideas that held the McMaster group together, at least for a while.
- He also uses it to explicate the notion of a constitutive rule.
- According to the bequest, the lecture series aims ‘to explicate the concept of the human mind through theory and empirical research.’
- Some recent authors have written books attempting to explicate the concept of nomicity.
- The ultimate goal is to clarify and explicate the notion of ‘Atheism,’ then spell out and defend the correct definition.
- Researchers conclude, however, that at least broad intervention principles can be explicated within such approaches.
- In his attempt to explicate the determinate-determinable relation, he uses the notion of predicate entailment.
- Philosophers have explored two ways of explicating the concept of omnipotence.
- Before we examine the more recent work, we need to explicate the notion in more detail than we have done so far and introduce some empirical findings.
- Instead of explicating a thesis, the immediacy of photography in motion seizes us and renders products of fancy as real.
- The four negative stereotypes are explicated below.
- The contributors present engaging interpretations that explicate the life experiences of the people studying and working at community colleges.
Synonyms explain, explain in detail, make explicit, clarify, make plain/clear, spell out interpret, elucidate, expound, comment on, develop, work out illuminate, throw light on, unfold, untangle, clear up, put into plain English criticize, appraise - 1.1 Analyse (a literary work) in order to reveal its meaning.
these essays seek to explicate and contextualize Kristeva's writings Example sentencesExamples - The text explicates Cohen's work in a thoughtful and non-confrontational manner.
- She strikes an effective balance between breadth and depth, not just explicating poems but contextualizing them among the larger community of Native poetry.
- In order to clarify their ethical agendas, they include prefaces that explicate the thematic direction and instructive nature of their novels.
- The collection of seven articles, six essays, and one interview use an assortment of scholarly approaches to explicate elements in Shonibare's works.
- Among Hyde's strengths are his detailed knowledge of texts and contexts, and an ability to explicate them.
- He used to give lectures to students and hostages alike on the embassy grounds, explicating the writings of the leftist-revolutionary ideologue and mystic.
- It is a very historical text, as it was the first book in France to systematically defend and explicate Nietzsche's work, which was still suspected of fascism, even after the second World War.
- Such works have always been explicated through commentary, and this one too is designed for commentary, like the German Baroque dramas to which the learned Silesians appended their scholia.
- In explicating Bertrand Russell's work on cravings and physiological desire, Burke draws on the historical research he did to dwell on the intensity and tenacity of a physiological craving.
- One assignment that proved useful here was to have the students work in groups to explicate specific passages from Mann's Twelfth Annual School Report from 1848.
Synonyms clarify, elucidate, explain, reveal, make clear, shed light on, cast light on, give insight into, clear up
Derivatives adjective ɛkˈsplɪkətɪvˈɛksplɪkeɪtɪv It's better to temper the praise, be firm, but not overly emotional and explicative in delivery. Example sentencesExamples - Certainly you could show that ‘trailer moment’ of the bus blowing up without putting it in such overly explicative story context.
- With such refinement or elaboration, the explicative power of the model can be realized to its fullest possible extent.
- This correlation could be explained by a particular migration scheme from Europe to Brazil without the explicative need of natural selection.
- Mr Phase performs in front of a screen of projected black and white static, along with the occasional caption and explicative comment.
noun ˈɛksplɪkeɪtəˈɛkspləˌkeɪdər A person who analyses and develops an idea or piece of writing in detail. a writer and well-respected explicator of literary texts Example sentencesExamples - Arts writing is seen as subservient to the art, that it's role can only be one of an obvious and didactic explicator of hidden meanings.
- Steve Gould's greatest fame was not as a biologist but as an explicator of science for a lay public, in lectures, essays, and books.
- The fact is that for all his polish and brilliance as an explicator of other people's ideas, he has never been much of an original thinker.
adjective ɛkˈsplɪkət(ə)riˈɛksplɪkeɪt(ə)ri Only from reading the explicatory reviews did I find out. Example sentencesExamples - Written in a clear, easy-to-follow style, the book is well researched, as is evident in the copious explicatory notes, at the end of the book, for each chapter.
- Prefacing involves an explicatory introduction to a reading of a work.
- How does a museum ‘do’ imperial economics or the impact of English-style laws without drowning the visitor in documents and explicatory text?
- Its images tend to generate multiple interpretations - and do so without an accompanying sense of explicatory adequacy or closure.
Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin explicat- 'unfolded', from the verb explicare, from ex- 'out' + plicare 'to fold'. Definition of explicate in US English: explicateverbˈɛkspləˌkeɪtˈekspləˌkāt [with object]1Analyze and develop (an idea or principle) in detail. attempting to explicate the relationship between crime and economic forces Example sentencesExamples - And while he may have lacked the gene for self-promotion, it is not as if no one else in public life had the opportunity to explicate his ideas for a larger public.
- The ultimate goal is to clarify and explicate the notion of ‘Atheism,’ then spell out and defend the correct definition.
- The rendition in the previous sections is meant to explicate the core ideas that held the McMaster group together, at least for a while.
- Before we examine the more recent work, we need to explicate the notion in more detail than we have done so far and introduce some empirical findings.
- Philosophers have explored two ways of explicating the concept of omnipotence.
- Instead of explicating a thesis, the immediacy of photography in motion seizes us and renders products of fancy as real.
- Researchers conclude, however, that at least broad intervention principles can be explicated within such approaches.
- He also demonstrates his usual fairness and balance in explicating the theological opinion to the effect that there is a possibility that all may be saved.
- According to the bequest, the lecture series aims ‘to explicate the concept of the human mind through theory and empirical research.’
- He also uses it to explicate the notion of a constitutive rule.
- He both re-emphasizes and thoroughly explicates the details of this approach.
- His commentary shows the great care and precision of a thoughtful and dedicated interpreter who is explicating the categories through a close reading of the text.
- Before mentioning these myths and stereotypes, let me explicate a developmental theory, for good theory and science enhance each other for practice.
- The contributors present engaging interpretations that explicate the life experiences of the people studying and working at community colleges.
- In his attempt to explicate the determinate-determinable relation, he uses the notion of predicate entailment.
- The researcher's race, background, and research assumptions were explicated in a research journal providing readers with a context for critique.
- A great deal of Tilly's problem in briefly explicating his ideas flows from the enormous nature of the change proposed.
- Within this framework, Barnave's revolutionary political ideas will be explicated.
- Some recent authors have written books attempting to explicate the concept of nomicity.
- The four negative stereotypes are explicated below.
Synonyms explain, explain in detail, make explicit, clarify, make clear, make plain, spell out - 1.1 Analyze (a literary work) in order to reveal its meaning.
Example sentencesExamples - One assignment that proved useful here was to have the students work in groups to explicate specific passages from Mann's Twelfth Annual School Report from 1848.
- Among Hyde's strengths are his detailed knowledge of texts and contexts, and an ability to explicate them.
- The text explicates Cohen's work in a thoughtful and non-confrontational manner.
- She strikes an effective balance between breadth and depth, not just explicating poems but contextualizing them among the larger community of Native poetry.
- The collection of seven articles, six essays, and one interview use an assortment of scholarly approaches to explicate elements in Shonibare's works.
- Such works have always been explicated through commentary, and this one too is designed for commentary, like the German Baroque dramas to which the learned Silesians appended their scholia.
- It is a very historical text, as it was the first book in France to systematically defend and explicate Nietzsche's work, which was still suspected of fascism, even after the second World War.
- In explicating Bertrand Russell's work on cravings and physiological desire, Burke draws on the historical research he did to dwell on the intensity and tenacity of a physiological craving.
- In order to clarify their ethical agendas, they include prefaces that explicate the thematic direction and instructive nature of their novels.
- He used to give lectures to students and hostages alike on the embassy grounds, explicating the writings of the leftist-revolutionary ideologue and mystic.
Synonyms clarify, elucidate, explain, reveal, make clear, shed light on, cast light on, give insight into, clear up
Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin explicat- ‘unfolded’, from the verb explicare, from ex- ‘out’ + plicare ‘to fold’. |