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English
Verb
dilucidate (third-person singular simple present dilucidates, present participle dilucidating, simple past and past participle dilucidated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To elucidate; to clarify.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- And because the proceeding by interrogatories doth in my opinion much dilucidate things I will make use of that artifice.
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
dilucidate
- inflection of dilucidare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
dilucidate f pl
- feminine plural of dilucidato
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Spanish
Verb
dilucidate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of dilucidar combined with te