explicative
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explicative
Where it comes from
From Latin explicātīvus, from explicō (“to unfold, open out”).
adjective more explicative · most explicative
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Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
The witness was explicative in telling the police what he saw.
Similar: explicatory
noun explicatives
- An explicative term or expression. For the adverſative particle [but] which follows, when he ſaith, but he emptied himſelf requires this: Otherwiſe it will not be ſo much an adverſative as an explicative, and will be taken improperly, ſed, pro, veruntamen, but for, nevertheleſs: which leads us to the conſideration of verſe 7.
- An expletive. Norfolk may yet win its battle against deletable explicatives.
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title = {explicative},
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