eclaircise
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English
Etymology
Back-formation from eclaircissement,[1] borrowed from French éclaircissement.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈklɛːˌsaɪz/, /eɪ-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈklɛɹˌsaɪz/
- Hyphenation: eclair‧cise
Verb
eclaircise (third-person singular simple present eclaircises, present participle eclaircising, simple past and past participle eclaircised)
- (transitive, rare) To make clear; to clarify, to explain.
- 1870, Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass , Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, , published 1892, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 316:
- Passage O soul to India! / Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.
Translations
References
- ^ “eclaircise, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1891.
