re-explicate

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English

Verb

re-explicate (third-person singular simple present re-explicates, present participle re-explicating, simple past and past participle re-explicated)

  1. Alternative form of reexplicate (to explain again.)
    • 2013, Tatiana Holway, The Flower of Empire, unnumbered page:
      The design also made it possible to re-explicate the entirety of the structure in terms of its multifarious reproducible parts, and detailed diagrams represented, and re-represented, its ingenious simplicity, its elementary logic, over and over again.
    • 1998, Carmen Andreescu, Women's Growth in Diversity: More Writings From the Stone Center:
      The papers focus strongly on two modes of being—the feminine, or the empathy-love model, and the masculine, or the power-control model—and on their psychological outcomes, which are the relational self and the individual self, respectively. These discussions provide an opportunity to re-explicate some gender-related stereotyped behavior.
    • 1973, Clive James, Auden's Achievement:
      [] no respectable literatus wants the responsibility of firing the gun that will set the young scholars off on their plodding race to re-explicate what any sensitive reader has long since seen to be one of the unassailably transcendental poetic achievements of the modern age.
    • 2016, Fuck Theory, Shock Waves: A Syllabus for the End Times:
      He spent the rest of his philosophical career trying to simplify and re-explicate what were essentially extracts from the Treatise for an audience he rightly felt did not sufficiently appreciate the complexity of his magnum opus.