Explicate v. t. (past & past part. explicated; pres. part. explicating)
1.
To unfold; to expand; to lay open. (Obs.) "They explicate the leaves."
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."
... rejoice, albeit I could very hardly apprehend the same in my external man and set it down with the pen. For I had a thorough view of the universe as in a chaos, wherein all things are couched and wrapt up, but it was impossible for me to explicate the same." Jacob Behmen's Theosophic Philosophy, etc., by Edward Taylor, London, 1691, pp. ... — The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James
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