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dilucidate

dilucidate verb: to elucidate; to clarify.

Verb

dilucidate (third-person singular simple present dilucidates, present participle dilucidating, simple past and past participle dilucidated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To elucidate; to clarify.
    • 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)

Forms of dilucidate

third-person singular presentdilucidates
present participledilucidating
past participledilucidated
pastdilucidated

Origin of dilucidate

From diēs (“day”) + lūcis (“light”) + -id + -ate.

Questions about dilucidate

What does dilucidate mean?
Dilucidate means to elucidate; to clarify.
What part of speech is dilucidate?
Dilucidate is a verb.
What is the past tense of dilucidate?
The past tense of dilucidate is dilucidated.

Words near dilucidate in the dictionary

  1. diltiazem
  2. Dilton Marsh
  3. Dilts
  4. Diltses
  5. dilucid
  6. dilucidate
  7. dilucidated
  8. dilucidates
  9. dilucidating
  10. dilucidation
  11. dilucidations

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