explicate

From Latin explicāre, present active infinitive of explicō (“unfold, explain”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛksplɪˌkeɪt/
• (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkspləˌkeɪt/

explicate (third-person singular simple present explicates, present participle explicating, simple past and past participle explicated)

1. (transitive) To explain meticulously or in great detail; to elucidate; to analyze.

   My homework is to explicate a poem.

• explication
• explicative
• explicator
• explicit

explicate (comparative more explicate, superlative most explicate)

1. (obsolete) Evolved; unfolded.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)

explicātē (not comparable)

1. clearly, plainly

explicāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of explicō

• explicate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• explicate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• explicate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to frown: frontem contrahere (opp. explicare)
    
  • (ambiguous) to give lectures: scholas habere, explicare (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to explain one's sentiments: sententias (verbis) explicare, aperire
    
  • (ambiguous) to give a full, detailed account of a thing: pluribus verbis, copiosius explicare, persequi aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to explain a matter briefly, in a few words (not paucis verbis): breviter, paucis explicare aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to open a book: volumen explicare
    
  • (ambiguous) to extend the line of battle, deploy the battalions: aciem explicare or dilatare