EX'PLICATE, verb transitive [Latin explico, to unfold; ex and plico, to fold. 1. To unfold; to expand; to open. 'They explicate the leaves.' [In this sense, the word is not common, and hardly admissible.] 2. To unfold the meaning or sense; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. The last verse of his last satyr is not yet sufficiently explicated.
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