explicate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin explicāre, present active infinitive of explicō (“unfold, explain”).

verb

1. (transitive) To explain meticulously or in great detail.
   My homework is to explicate a poem.
   Alternatively, there is the possibility of an extended narration composed of events that are not (wholly) explicated but are, nevertheless, possible and may even have taken place. 1969, Susan Sontag, “Persona”, in Styles of Radical Will, Penguin Modern Classics, published 2009
   Isou himself, enemy of all conventional discourse, wrote hundreds, then thousands of pages explicating his theories; […] 1989, Greil Marcus, “The Crash of Yesterday's Art”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009
   In laying out these archetypes, Mr. Booker […] does a nimble job of collating dozens of stories, using the 34 years he says it took him to write this volume to identify and explicate all sorts of parallels and analogies that might not occur to the casual reader. 2005-04-15, Michiko Kakutani, “The Plot Thins, or Are No Stories New?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

adj

1. (obsolete) Evolved; unfolded.