explication

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EXPLICA'TION, noun The act of opening or unfolding. 1. The act of explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation; as the explication of the parables of our Savior. 2. The sense given by an expositor or interpreter.
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