elucidate
verbEtymology
From Late Latin ēlūcidātus, perfect passive participle of ēlūcidō (“to lighten, enlighten”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ē(x)- (“out, from”) + lūcidus (“bright, clear, understandable”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), literally “to make light of (something)”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”). Compare French élucider.
- borrowed from ēlūcidātus
Definitions
To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous
To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
To make (something) clear and understandable
To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
- Let me hear vvhat your ovvn conceptions are of the matter, if they tend to elucidate or reconcile.
- Dining at Mr. [Samuel] Pepys's, Dr. Slayer shewed us an experiment of a wonderful nature, […] This matter or phosphorus was made out of human blood and urine, elucidating the vital flame or heate in animal bodys.
- The antiquities of France have been elucidated by a learned and ingenious people: […]
Clear, understandable.
The neighborhood
- neighborenlighten
- neighborlucid
- neighborlucidity
- neighborlucidly
- neighborlucidness
- neighbornonlucid
- neighborpellucid
- neighborpellucidity
- neighborpellucidly
- neighborpellucidness
- neighborunlucid
Derived
elucidation, elucidative, elucidator, elucidatory, unelucidated
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA