Obs. [ad. L. explicāt-us, pa. pple. of explicāre: see EXPLICATE v.] a. Unfolded, expanded. b. Unfolded in words, fully stated; esp. of a syllogism. c. Made clear; plain, intelligible.
a. 1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Introd. The intestine in some is small, and single. The appendices are explicate, but few.
b. 1532. Hen. VIII., in Burnet, Hist. Ref., II. 169. When our cause was proponed to your holiness, when it was explicate and declared afore the same.
1605. A. Wotton, Answ. Pop. Articles, 4. A simple syllogisme is either contract or explicate. Ibid., 5. In an explicate syllogisme the proposition is generall.
1628. T. Spencer, Logick, 270. A sufficient reason why we should call a Syllogisme explicate: for thereby it is vnfolded to the full.
1648. N. Estwick, Treat. Holy Ghost, 53. The Proposition … is unwarrantable in the second explicate, or first figure.
c. 1647. Jer. Taylor, Lib. Proph., i. 7. Whatsoever is expressed … is made articulate and explicate.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, I. ix. 33. How facile, how explicate is the Solution of this great Question.
1698. [R. Fergusson], View Eccles., 61. Thought them hardly either vindicable or explicate without it.
Hence † Explicately adv. = EXPLICITLY. 1.
a. 1617. Bayne, Dioc. Tryall (1621), 19. People, who though explicately they did not beleeve in Christ, yet had in them the faith of the Messiah.
