Elucidate
[ɪ'l(j)uːsɪdeɪt] or [ɪ'lusɪdet]
Definition
(v. t.) To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.
Typist: Winfred
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Explain, illustrate, unfold, make clear, make plain, throw light upon.
Typed by Brooke
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Explain, clear,[See {[11]?}], lustrate, make_plain, expound
ANT:Mystify, obscure, confuse
Edited by Dwight
Definition
v.t. to make lucid or clear: to throw light upon: to illustrate.—n. Elucidā′tion.—adjs. Elū′cidative Elū′cidatory making clear: explanatory.—n. Elū′cidator.
Inputed by Agnes
Examples
- But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Which he was not prepared to elucidate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Reference to the following diagrams will elucidate this principle more clearly than words alone can do. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To elucidate the basic principle of Edison's method, let the crushed ore fall in a thin stream past such a magnet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His work and tests regarding magnetism were repeated later on by Hopkinson and Kapp, who then elucidated the whole theory mathematically by means of formulae and constants. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Maris