explication

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_) “They are used accordingly in all such cases for the purpose of illustration, and their explication is accomplished, not by assigning to them some new and extraordinary meaning, but simply by conjoining with them the terms of a comparison which expresses the relation in which they are employed.” — _Ib.

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  1. The act of unfolding or opening. Theology may be described as the explication and articulation of the idea of God, or the interpretation of Nature, Man, and History, through that idea. Contemporary Rev., LI. 203.
  2. Explanation; especially, an exposition of the meaning of any sentence or passage. The exposition and explication of authors, which resteth in annotations and commentaries. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 256. Explications of every material difficulty in the text, in notes at the bottom of each page. Goldsmith, Criticisms. A declaration is called an explication when the predicate or defining member indeterminately evolves only some of the characters belonging to the subject. It is called an exposition when the evolution of the notion is continued through several explications. Sir W. Hamilton.

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  • Such an intellectually bold theory requires further explication, and I would welcome the task if it were not for the fact that Dr. Mumford, for reasons that would defy the understanding of the layman, has chosen to publish his thesis in Pig Latin. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 05 - May 1999
  • The explication which My Lord of Worcester treats with so much contempt, is nevertheless countenanced by authority which I find quoted by the learned Baxter in his edition of Horace: ' Difficile est proprie communia dicere , h.e. res vulgares disertis verbis enarrare, vel humile thema cum dignitate tractare. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3
  • The first task is a short identification and explain what this has to do with what we've been working on in class; the second asks students to do a sort of mini-explication with passages. —  Bardiac
  • Perhaps the naming and explication are left as exercises for the reader-viewer. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • The explication is probably this; that during that period he had discovered that he had been in a mistake. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
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  1. = French explication = Spanish explicacion = Portuguese explicação = Italian esplicazione, from Latin explicatio(n-), from explicare, unfold, explain: see explicate.
 

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