Definition of explication in English:
explication
noun ɛksplɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌɛkspləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
mass noun1The process of analysing and developing an idea or principle in detail.
this term is meaningless without further explication and analysis
count noun his explications of scientific concepts
Example sentencesExamples
- His detailed explications of a single patient's symptoms, his willingness to share stories from his own life and his references to medical texts from earlier centuries are not only atypical of how most neurologists work today, they defy the status quo.
- This distinction between wanting and valuing requires far fuller explication than it has received so far.
- The moment itself seems beyond rational explication, but this is less important than the narrator's search for the proper artistic expression of it.
- "Heathers" was a brilliant over-the-top explication of how it felt to attend high school in the 1980s.
- There is not room here for a full explication of these distinctively Lutheran perspectives.
- His explications of scientific concepts can be equally reductionist.
- This proposition is in need of more explication.
- My first thought was that he was being a little extreme, but on further explication his reasoning seems sound.
- A lot of those differences are obvious and don't require tremendous explication in the media.
- Although this is a complex topic requiring much more information for full explication, data from my laboratory reveal an intriguing pattern of findings.
- 1.1 The process of analysing a literary work in order to reveal its meaning.
careful reading and explication of classical texts
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- Many people are devoted to the explication of the text but not to the experience of the text.
- The classic literary explication of Coleridges' poem is that the river and the caverns are the human mind.
- Each essay is carefully balanced between situating the passage in its religious context and literary-critical explication of the text as such.
- Defend your claims with detailed explication of Hamlet's words.
- His explication of this poem demonstrates how precise its images are.
- Any attempt to give a final explication of the meaning of a text is doomed.
- The Good Soldier is a text well trodden by critical explication.
- In the space of a few introductory pages, before an explication of the selected novels, Mr Millard has to condense a certain amount of theoretical thought.
- Few Afternoon Plays are prefaced by an array of talking heads, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, in an explication of the text.
- The following explication of a single poem by Alvarez also demonstrates the degree to which this interplay both permeates the content of her work and shapes her poetics.
Definition of explication in US English:
explication
nounˌekspləˈkāSH(ə)nˌɛkspləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
1The process of analyzing and developing an idea or principle in detail.
this term is meaningless without further explication and analysis
his explications of scientific concepts
Example sentencesExamples
- This distinction between wanting and valuing requires far fuller explication than it has received so far.
- A lot of those differences are obvious and don't require tremendous explication in the media.
- This proposition is in need of more explication.
- The moment itself seems beyond rational explication, but this is less important than the narrator's search for the proper artistic expression of it.
- Although this is a complex topic requiring much more information for full explication, data from my laboratory reveal an intriguing pattern of findings.
- "Heathers" was a brilliant over-the-top explication of how it felt to attend high school in the 1980s.
- My first thought was that he was being a little extreme, but on further explication his reasoning seems sound.
- His explications of scientific concepts can be equally reductionist.
- His detailed explications of a single patient's symptoms, his willingness to share stories from his own life and his references to medical texts from earlier centuries are not only atypical of how most neurologists work today, they defy the status quo.
- There is not room here for a full explication of these distinctively Lutheran perspectives.
- 1.1 The process of analyzing a literary work in order to reveal its meaning.
careful reading and explication of classical texts
Example sentencesExamples
- Few Afternoon Plays are prefaced by an array of talking heads, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, in an explication of the text.
- In the space of a few introductory pages, before an explication of the selected novels, Mr Millard has to condense a certain amount of theoretical thought.
- Defend your claims with detailed explication of Hamlet's words.
- The following explication of a single poem by Alvarez also demonstrates the degree to which this interplay both permeates the content of her work and shapes her poetics.
- The classic literary explication of Coleridges' poem is that the river and the caverns are the human mind.
- His explication of this poem demonstrates how precise its images are.
- Any attempt to give a final explication of the meaning of a text is doomed.
- Many people are devoted to the explication of the text but not to the experience of the text.
- Each essay is carefully balanced between situating the passage in its religious context and literary-critical explication of the text as such.
- The Good Soldier is a text well trodden by critical explication.