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English
Etymology
From elucidate + -ive.
Adjective
elucidative (comparative more elucidative, superlative most elucidative)
- Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in Oliver Twist:Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong.
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, ch. 4 “The New Downing Street”:
- In looking at this wreck of Governments in all European countries, there is one consideration that suggests itself, sadly elucidative of our modern epoch.