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elucidates

elucidates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 elucidates

What is elucidates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Elucidates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of elucidate.

Words near elucidates in the dictionary

  1. eluate
  2. eluated
  3. eluates
  4. elucidate
  5. elucidated
  6. elucidates
  7. elucidatest
  8. elucidateth
  9. elucidating
  10. elucidatingly
  11. elucidation

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