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Webster 1913 Edition
Dilucidate
Di-lu′ci-date
,Verb.
T.
[L.
dilucidatus
, p. p. of dilucidare
.] To elucidate.
[Obs.]
Boyle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dilucidate
DILUCIDATE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
dilucidate
dilucidate
English
Verb
dilucidate (third-person singular simple present dilucidates, present participle dilucidating, simple past and past participle dilucidated)
- (obsolete) To elucidate; to clarify.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- And because the proceeding by interrogatories doth in my opinion much dilucidate things ... I will make use of that artifice.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
References
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
dilucidate
- second-person plural present indicative of dilucidare
- second-person plural imperative of dilucidare
- feminine plural of dilucidato