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    [Verb]  | "ex*pli*cate" | \ ˈek-splə-ˌkāt \


    1: to give a detailed explanation of

    2: to develop the implications of : analyze logically


    Origin: 1531 ;

     Borrowed from Latin explicātus, past participle of explicō, explicāre "to free from folds or creases, unroll, disentangle, spread out, set out in words, give an account of," from ex- {see: |ex-:1|ex-:1} + plicāre "to fold, bend" {mat|ply:3|};

    [Verb]  | "explicates" 


    1: to make plain or understandable;


      * e.g., " ... the physicist did his best to explicate the wave theory of light for the audience of laymen "





    [Verb]  | "explicate" 


    1: to make plain or understandable;


      * e.g., " ... the physicist did his best to explicate the wave theory of light for the audience of laymen "





     [ "explication" ]

    1: the word douchebags use instead of 'explanation'

      * e.g.,  ... He kept trying to impress me with all his fancy explications. I didn't know explication was a word. 

     [ "explicate" ]

    1: To explain in a detailed manner.

      * e.g.,  ... Please explicate that to me because 

     [ "explic" ]

    1: What you can't do to something that's inexplicable.

      * e.g.,  ... The reasons behind the sudden changes seem inexplicable. Does anybody know how to explic them? 

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