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elucidative

adj

Etymology

From elucidate + -ive.

  1. derived from *lewk-✻ — “bright; to see; to shine”
  2. borrowed from ēlūcidātus
  3. suffixed as elucidative — “elucidate + ive”

Definitions

  1. Explanatory, clarifying

    Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.

    • Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong.
    • In looking at this wreck of Governments in all European countries, there is one consideration that suggests itself, sadly elucidative of our modern epoch.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for elucidative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA