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单词 explicate
释义 ex·pli·cate
I. \ˈekspləˌkāt\ transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Latin explicatus, past participle of explicare, literally, to unfold, from ex- ex- (I) + plicare to fold — more at ply
1.
 a. : to give a detailed account of : expound, disclose
  < an unfairness … which this would not be quite the proper place for explicating — Charles Lamb >
 b. : to unfold the meaning or sense of : interpret, clarify
  < trying to explicate not vocabulary or techniques but the experience out of which these works were written — Perry Miller >
2. obsolete : to lay open : unfold, expand
 < the rose of Jericho will … explicate its flowers — Sir Thomas Browne >
3. obsolete : disentangle, extricate
 < no way to explicate the Kingdom out of those intricacies — Edward Hyde >
4. : to develop what is involved or implied in (as a statement or notion) : analyze logically
 < this principle has been explicated into three general axioms — Francis Bowen >
II. adjective
Etymology: Latin explicatus, past participle of explicare
obsolete : explicated
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