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Webster 1913 Edition
Elucidative
E-lu′ci-daˊtive
,Adj.
Making clear; tending to elucidate;
as, an
. elucidative
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elucidative
elucidative
English
Adjective
elucidative (comparative more elucidative, superlative most elucidative)
- Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, ch. 27:
- Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong.
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, ch. 4 “The New Downing Street”:
- In looking at this wreck of Governments in all European countries, there is one consideration that suggests itself, sadly elucidative of our modern epoch.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, ch. 27: