elucidate
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Is elucidate a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).obsoletetransitive
2. (figurative) To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.Examples: "Let me hear vvhat your ovvn conceptions are of the matter, if they tend to elucidate or reconcile."; "Dining at Mr. [Samuel] Pepys's, Dr. Slayer shewed us an experiment of a wonderful nature, […] This matter or phosphorus was made out of human blood and urine, elucidating the vital flame or heate in animal bodys."; "The antiquities of France have been elucidated by a learned and ingenious people: […]"Synonyms: explain, explicatefigurativelytransitive
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Clear, understandable.Examples: "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."Synonyms: apparent, arrant, undoubted, glaring, bait, blatant, clear, clear as a bellAntonyms: translucent, transparent, turbidobsoletetransitive
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