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/ˌɛkspɫəˈkeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- a detailed explanation of the meaning of something
- the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc.
How To Use explication In A Sentence
- Krüger and Kühner retain them, as added _explicationis causá_.] [Footnote 12: The daric was a Persian gold coin, generally supposed to have derived its name from Darius I.; but others think this doubtful. The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis
- The statistical analyses and their detailed explication will be most appropriate for researchers who share this particular academic niche.
- [Footnote: As Buffon has well said: -- "L'idée de ramener l'explication de tous les phénomènes à des principes mecaniques est assurement grande et belle, ce pas est le plus hardi qu'on peut faire en philosophie, et c'est Descartes qui l'a fait." -- _l.c. _ p. 50.] Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02
- Bristling at the term "preservationist," the Ramblers articulated their quest in manifestoes that appeared in album booklets, along with detailed song explications, always honoring the sources. Better Than the Real Thing?
- Defend your claims with detailed explication of Hamlet's words.
- The classic literary explication of Coleridges' poem is that the river and the caverns are the human mind.
- This would be true by definition; just as the investigation and explication of the conceit is what defines the process as fabulation, the source and nature of the main conceit (s) is what defines the process as scientific. Archive 2005-12-01
- This matter stands in need both of a higher indagation, and of a longer explication than is pertinent to the present inquisition.
- I have here instanced in the corpuscularian Hypothesis, as that which is thought to go farthest in an intelligible Explication of the Qualities of Bodies; and I fear the Weakness of humane Understanding is scarce able to substitute another, which will afford us a fuller and clearer discovery of the necessary Connexion, and Locke's Philosophy of Science
- Although this is a complex topic requiring much more information for full explication, data from my laboratory reveal an intriguing pattern of findings.