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ellucidate

ellucidate is the misspelling of elucidate.

Meaning of elucidate

Verb

elucidate (third-person singular simple present elucidates, present participle elucidating, simple past and past participle elucidated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
    • Let me hear vvhat your ovvn conceptions are of the matter, if they tend to elucidate or reconcile.1675, Richard Baxter, “The Second Book. The Fifth Days Conference with an Arminian of Mans Natural Sinfulness and Impotency to Good, and of Free-will.”, in Richard Baxter’s Catholick Theologie: […]...
    Synonyms:
    explain, explicate

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Questions about ellucidate

What is ellucidate the misspelling of?
Ellucidate is the misspelling of elucidate.

Words near ellucidate in the dictionary

  1. Ellsworth
  2. Ellsworth County
  3. Ellsworth Land
  4. ellsworthite
  5. Ellsworths
  6. ellucidate
  7. Ellul
  8. Ellulian
  9. ellum
  10. Ellura
  11. ellwand

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