Ex"pli*cate (?), a. [L. explicatus, p.p. of explicare.]
Evolved; unfolded.
Jer. Taylor.
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Ex"pli*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explicated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Explicating(?).]
1.
To unfold; to expand; to lay open.
[Obs.] "They
explicate the leaves."
Blackmore.
2.
To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.
The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated.
Dryden.
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