elucidate

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There was still one point which Gwen was anxious to elucidate, and that was the reason of Lesbia's peculiar conduct in the orchard on the evening of the gymkhana, and where she had obtained the ten and sixpence of which she had spoken.

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  1. transitive verb To make clear or plain, especially by explanation; clarify.
  2. intransitive verb To give an explanation that serves to clarify. See Synonyms at explain.

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  • It was this quality which made him so superior a disputant; for as his mind had investigated the various sentiments and hypotheses of men, so had his almost intuitive discrimination stripped them of their deceptive appendages, and separated fallacies from truth, marshalling their arguments, so as to elucidate or detect each other. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • Long Tom pulled up Yes, elucidate," Johnny invited I just got wise to something," Renny rumbled. —  019 - Fear Cay
  • This may elucidate, at least in part, how the brain creates for us a stable visual world when the information coming in through our eyes changes at a rapid-fire pace: up to four times in a single second. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • To elucidate: in a normal person--like you, for instance, or even like myself--the state of having one's mind read merely results in a vague, almost subconscious feeling of irritation, something that could easily be attributed to minor worries, or fluctuations in one's hormonal balance. —  That Sweet Little Old Lady
  • To do more than furnish a sketch of the leading incidents in Montaigne's life seemed, in the presence of Bayle St. John's charming and able biography, an attempt as difficult as it was useless The besetting sin of both Montaigne's translators seems to have been a propensity for reducing his language and phraseology to the language and phraseology of the age and country to which they belonged, and, moreover, inserting paragraphs and words, not here and there only, but constantly and habitually, from an evident desire and view to elucidate or strengthen their author's meaning. —  The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 01
 

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  1. Late Latin ēlūcidāre, ēlūcidāt- : Latin ē-, ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + Latin lūcidus, bright (from lūcēre, to shine; see leuk- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Late Latin elucidatus, past participle of elucidare (later Spanish Portuguese elucidar = French élucider), make light or clear, from Latin e, out, + lucidus, light, clear: see lucid.
 

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