elucidate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 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.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: elucidates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: elucidating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: elucidated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: elucidated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: elucidate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: elucidate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: elucidated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: elucidate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: elucidatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: elucidated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: elucidatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: elucidates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: elucidateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: elucidated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: elucidate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: elucidated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: elucidate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: elucidated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: elucidate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: elucidating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: elucidated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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: […]
The business however, though not perfectly elucidated by this speech, soon ceased to be a puzzle.
Peter elucidateth the Frauds in Literature by a Smock Race.
His notes abound with interesting quotations, and have the rare merit of really elucidating the text.
[W]e find no need of, and no use for, the peculiar technical terminology which he and his masters the Germans have introduced into philosophy, […] which this language, in our judgment, serves not to elucidate, but to disguise and obscure.
[A]s it is known that he [Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne] was eminently successful in elucidating the physiology of the muscles of the hand by the aid of electricity, it is probably that he is generally in the right about the muscles of the face.
[P]hysicians at the annual meeting of the American Academy of General Practice were fascinated by a 3-ft. model showing the brain's components in 20 layers of translucent plastic, and wired for colored lights to elucidate some of its workings.
Another appendix elucidates the S.E.C.R. headcode system.
The new Sopranos volume has 17 essays that examine the television show and elucidate concepts from classical philosophers, including Aristotle, [Niccolò] Machiavelli, [Friedrich] Nietzsche, Sun Tzu and Plato.
O Lord! somewhere Thou elucidatest the traits of song and sound and somewhere Thou art the treasure of dancing and painting.
Related words: enlighten
lucid
lucidity
lucidly
lucidness
nonlucid
pellucid
pellucidity
pellucidly
pellucidness
unlucid
Derived words: elucidation
elucidative
elucidator
elucidatory
unelucidated
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