"explicate" meaning in All languages combined

See explicate on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈɛk.splɪˌkeɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɛk.spləˌkeɪt/ (note: General American, weak vowel merger), /ˈek.splɪˌkæɪt/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-explicate.wav Forms: more explicate [comparative], most explicate [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pleḱ-}}, {{der|en|la|explicō|explicāre|t=unfold, explain}} Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} explicate (comparative more explicate, superlative most explicate)
  1. (obsolete) Evolved; unfolded. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-explicate-en-adj-EGcBYrMj

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈɛk.splɪˌkeɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɛk.spləˌkeɪt/ (note: General American, weak vowel merger), /ˈek.splɪˌkæɪt/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-explicate.wav Forms: explicates [present, singular, third-person], explicating [participle, present], explicated [participle, past], explicated [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pleḱ-}}, {{der|en|la|explicō|explicāre|t=unfold, explain}} Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} 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. Tags: transitive Synonyms: analyze, elucidate, explicitate Derived forms: reexplicate Related terms: complicate, explication, explicative, explicator, explicit, overelaborate Translations (explain meticulously): բացատրել (bacʻatrel) (Armenian), 闡明 /阐明 (chǎnmíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 解釋 /解释 (jiěshì) (Chinese Mandarin), 辨明 (biànmíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 闡述 /阐述 (chǎnshù) (Chinese Mandarin), vysvětlit (Czech), objasnit (Czech), ozřejmit (Czech), interpretovat (Czech), selittää (Finnish), explizieren (German), haarklein erläutern (German), kifejt (Hungarian), megmagyaráz (Hungarian), explica (Romanian), explicera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-explicate-en-verb-b5zIalyz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 86 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 12 70 0 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 71 0 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 18 82

Adverb [Latin]

Forms: explicātē [canonical]
Head templates: {{la-adv|explicātē|-}} explicātē (not comparable)
  1. clearly, plainly Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-explicate-la-adv-YwA59JN9

Verb [Latin]

Forms: explicāte [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|verb form|head=explicāte}} explicāte
  1. second-person plural present active imperative of explicō Tags: active, form-of, imperative, plural, present, second-person Form of: explicō
    Sense id: en-explicate-la-verb-yN~TyISi Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 0 100

Verb [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|verb form}} explicate
  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of explicar combined with te Tags: form-of, imperative, object-second-person, object-singular, second-person, singular, with-voseo Form of: explicar
    Sense id: en-explicate-es-verb-8jditIZf Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "It is an act of grace and higheſt honour that we duſt and aſhes are admitted to ſpeak to the Eternal God, to run to him as to a Father, to lay open our wants, to complain of our burdens, to explicate our ſcruples, to beg remedy & eaſe, ſupport and counſel, health and ſafety, deliverance & ſalvation: […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Susan Sontag, “Persona”, in Styles of Radical Will, Penguin Modern Classics, published 2009, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Alternatively, there is the possibility of an extended narration composed of events that are not (wholly) explicated but are, nevertheless, possible and may even have taken place.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1989, Greil Marcus, “The Crash of Yesterday's Art”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:",
          "text": "Isou himself, enemy of all conventional discourse, wrote hundreds, then thousands of pages explicating his theories; […]",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2005 April 15, Michiko Kakutani, “The Plot Thins, or Are No Stories New?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "In laying out these archetypes, Mr. Booker […] does a nimble job of collating dozens of stories, using the 34 years he says it took him to write this volume to identify and explicate all sorts of parallels and analogies that might not occur to the casual reader.",
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          "ref": "1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Of Christian Religion”, in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC, section VII (Of Prayer), page 284:",
          "text": "It is an act of grace and higheſt honour that we duſt and aſhes are admitted to ſpeak to the Eternal God, to run to him as to a Father, to lay open our wants, to complain of our burdens, to explicate our ſcruples, to beg remedy & eaſe, ſupport and counſel, health and ſafety, deliverance & ſalvation: […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1969, Susan Sontag, “Persona”, in Styles of Radical Will, Penguin Modern Classics, published 2009, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Alternatively, there is the possibility of an extended narration composed of events that are not (wholly) explicated but are, nevertheless, possible and may even have taken place.",
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          "ref": "1989, Greil Marcus, “The Crash of Yesterday's Art”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:",
          "text": "Isou himself, enemy of all conventional discourse, wrote hundreds, then thousands of pages explicating his theories; […]",
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          "ref": "2005 April 15, Michiko Kakutani, “The Plot Thins, or Are No Stories New?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "In laying out these archetypes, Mr. Booker […] does a nimble job of collating dozens of stories, using the 34 years he says it took him to write this volume to identify and explicate all sorts of parallels and analogies that might not occur to the casual reader.",
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