Definition of Explicate
Explicate
ex·pli·cate
Definition/Meaning
(verb)
to analyze something in detail, providing extensive explanations and developing principles and ideas;
e.g. I need some time to explicate the data I have collected and find out what it means.
(verb)
to analyze something in a systematic and logical way in order to find its meaning and implications, especially to do this to a literary work;
e.g. The professor helped them to explicate the novel they were studying.
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