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  • noun Plural form of explicator.

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Examples

  • And Albert Crosetti and his unusual mom and his even more remarkable girlfriend, Carolyn, if girlfriend she is, all discoverers, and explicators, and decipherers, of Bracegirdle, my nemesis, without whom ...

    Excerpt: The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber 2007

  • I really don't think that Melanie is a serious source on these issues (I suspect she wouldn't think so either) but I have read Effraim Karsh, Walter Lacquer, Cruise O'Brien, Howard Sachar (and more e.g Samuel Katz) all of whom are more or less Zionist and who strike me as more plausible (scholarly) defenders/explicators of some of the actions surrounding the founding of Israel.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • However there are interesting variations between FRBR's formal model and the narrative expositions of FRBR's authors and explicators - that is, between the formal model and the framework as more broadly understood by the FRBR community.

    Archive 2006-12-17 David Bigwood 2006

  • Critics don't just exist as arbiters of taste and explicators of art.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • However there are interesting variations between FRBR's formal model and the narrative expositions of FRBR's authors and explicators - that is, between the formal model and the framework as more broadly understood by the FRBR community.

    Inheritance in FRBR David Bigwood 2006

  • We also knew that the election for its explicators would once again come down to "character," the "human connection," or what Laura Bush would tell you about her husband if you ran into her at the store.

    Politics in the 'New Normal' America Didion, Joan 2004

  • We were no longer even surprised that the ability of these explicators to read character seemed to have atrophied beyond conceivable repair: consider the way in which the raw fragility of Teresa Heinz Kerry was instantly metamorphosed into "strong woman," or her husband's pained shyness into "aloofness," or the practiced courtroom affability of the plaintiff's attorney who was his running mate into "sunniness."

    Politics in the 'New Normal' America Didion, Joan 2004

  • "Narration has had its defenders and its explicators but the problem remains how to defend and define description."

    Mysteries of Dutch Painting Gombrich, Ernst 1983

  • For him the poem's puzzling questions are very nearly beyond all conjecture, and he clearly needs those explicators to clarify them.

    Kesh & Loaning Tracy, Robert 1980

  • As a long-time admirer of J.R. R. Tolkien, I delighted in Janet Adam Smith's good Edinburgh-style review of him and his works and his explicators and his enthusiasts in your December 14th number.

    Small Furry People Wimsatt, Margaret 1973

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