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Elucidate

//ɪˈl(j)uːsɪdeɪt//

Definitions

verbelucidates · elucidating · elucidated · elucidate · elucidatest · elucidatedst · elucidateth

1
To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
2
To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
Let me hear vvhat your ovvn conceptions are of the matter, if they tend to elucidate or reconcile.
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adjmore elucidate · most elucidate

1
Clear, understandable.
There vvas not a greater Maſter of Perſpicuity, and elucidate Diſtinctions; vvhich look'd the better in his [John Williams'] Engliſh, that ran ſvveet upon his Tongue, eſpecially being ſet out vvith a graceful Facetiouſneſs, that hit the joint of the Matter: For his VVit, and his Judgment, never parted.
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Word Origin

From Late Latin ēlūcidātus, perfect passive participle of ēlūcidō (“to lighten, enlighten”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ē(x)- (“out, from”) + lūcidus (“bright, clear, understandable”) + -ō ...

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