enucleate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ENU'CLEATE, verb transitive [Latin enucleo; e and nucleus, a kernel.] Properly, to take out the kernel. Hence, 1. To clear from knots or lumps, to clear from intricacy; to disentangle. 2. To open as a nucleus; hence, to explain; to clear from obscurity; to make manifest.
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