"dilucidate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From diēs (“day”) + lūcis (“light”) + -id + -ate.",
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    {
      "form": "dilucidates",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "dilucidating",
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "dilucidated",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "dilucidated",
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        "past"
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          "ref": "1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)",
          "text": "And because the proceeding by interrogatories doth in my opinion much dilucidate things […] I will make use of that artifice."
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        "To elucidate; to clarify."
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          "clarify",
          "clarify"
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        "(transitive, obsolete) To elucidate; to clarify."
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "dilucidar"
        }
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  "word": "dilucidate"
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  "etymology_text": "From diēs (“day”) + lūcis (“light”) + -id + -ate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dilucidates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dilucidating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dilucidated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dilucidated",
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        "past"
      ]
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          "ref": "1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)",
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        "(transitive, obsolete) To elucidate; to clarify."
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      "code": "es",
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