Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making or tending to make clear; explanatory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Making clear; tending to elucidate.
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- adjective
Explanatory ,clarifying ; that serves toelucidate .
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- adjective that makes clear
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Examples
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Well,so I wish when the things become elucidative to me and my will manifest,I will put some good words here.
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Overall, the anal triangle proved elucidative, an opportunity to understand a spectrum of clinical objectives that ranged from performing a sigmoidoscopy in a manner minimizing “unnecessary dis-comfort” to determining which nerves cause the involuntary contraction of the rectal muscles during death by asphyxiation, specifically hanging.
Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001
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Dreams ab't Pthah, Neith, etc., apart from their elucidative quality, wh'h is exquisite, have in them a poetry that might fill any
The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911
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There is incidentally a quantity of autobiographic record in my notes to this manuscript; but except as subsidiary and elucidative of the text I put no value on such.
The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905
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Record in my Notes to this Manuscript, but except as subsidiary and elucidative of the Text, I put no value on such: express Biography of me, I had really rather that there/[Page xviii]/should be none.
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A stray Letter from Mrs. Welsh to my Mother; which, so kindly, good and characteristic is it, I cannot but preserve as elucidative of her and the scene then alive with us all.
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There is incidentally a quantity of autobiographic record in my notes to this manuscript; but except as subsidiary and elucidative of the text I put no value on such.
The Life of Froude 1894
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And the bit of Egypt'n mythology, the cunning _Dreams_ ab't Pthah, Neith, etc., apart from their elucidative quality, wh'h is exquisite, have in them a _poetry_ that might fill any
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I now propose to bring together a series of facts specially elucidative of the harrowing theme.
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I have thus, I believe, stated all the material facts that have any elucidative bearing upon this mysterious occurrence. '
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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