dilucidate
English
editVerb
editdilucidate (third-person singular simple present dilucidates, present participle dilucidating, simple past and past participle dilucidated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To elucidate; to clarify.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- And because the proceeding by interrogatories doth in my opinion much dilucidate things […] I will make use of that artifice.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
References
edit- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dilucidate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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editItalian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editdilucidate
- inflection of dilucidare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editdilucidate f pl
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editSpanish
editVerb
editdilucidate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of dilucidar combined with te