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illucidate

illucidate is the alternative form 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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Forms of illucidate

third-person singular presentillucidates
present participleillucidating
past participleillucidated
pastillucidated

Questions about illucidate

What is illucidate the alternative form of?
Illucidate is the alternative form of elucidate.

Words near illucidate in the dictionary

  1. illth
  2. illtreat
  3. illtreated
  4. illtreating
  5. illtreats
  6. illucidate
  7. illucidated
  8. illucidates
  9. illucidating
  10. illucidation
  11. illucidations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: illucidate (page history and authors); elucidate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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