Monday, February 20, 2012

Let Me Explain!

Today's Word "explicate"
To explain
explicate \EK-spluh-kayt\ (transitive verb) - To explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity.

"Every day I would come home from the office to find him waiting and he would stay until dinnertime. During that time I would read and explicate a German introduction to philosphy to him. In return he would instruct me on the Yuishikiron, the Buddhist doctrine that matter is a form of mind." -- Ōgai Mori, 'Youth and Other Stories'

Explicate comes from Latin explicare, "to unfold; to unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain, expound, or interpret," from ex-, "out" + plicare, "to fold."

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