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Webster 1913 Edition
Elucidate
E-lu′ci-date
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Elucidated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Elucidating
.] To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate;
as, an example will
. elucidate
the subjectWebster 1828 Edition
Elucidate
ELU'CIDATE
, v.t [Low L. elucido, from eluceo,luceo, to shine, or from lucidus, clear, bright. See Light.]To make clear or manifest; to explain; to remove obscurity from, and render intelligible; to illustrate. An example will elucidate the subject. An argument may elucidate an obscure question. A fact related by one historian may elucidate an obscure passage in another's writings.
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elucidate
elucidate
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elucidate (third-person singular simple present elucidates, present participle elucidating, simple past and past participle elucidated)
- (transitive) To make clear; to clarify; to shed light upon.
- 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, ch. 13:
- The business, however, though not perfectly elucidated by this speech, soon ceased to be a puzzle.
- 1960, "Medicine: Unmasking the Brain," Time, 4 April:
- [P]hysicians at the annual meeting of the American Academy of General Practice were fascinated by a 3-ft. model showing the brain's components in 20 layers of translucent plastic, and wired for colored lights to elucidate some of its workings.
- 2004, David Bernstein, “Philosophy Hitches a Ride With ‘The Sopranos’,” New York Times, 13 April (retrieved 19 Aug. 2009):
- The new Sopranos volume has 17 essays that examine the television show and elucidate concepts from classical philosophers, including Aristotle, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Sun Tzu and Plato.
- 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, ch. 13:
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