Elucidate

Verb

 * 1) To make clear; to clarify; to shed light upon.
 * 2) * 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, ch. 13:
 * The business, however, though not perfectly elucidated by this speech, soon ceased to be a puzzle.
 * 1) * 1960, "Medicine: Unmasking the Brain," Time, 4 April:
 * [P]hysicians at the annual meeting of the American Academy of General Practice were fascinated by a 3-ft. model showing the brain's components in 20 layers of translucent plastic, and wired for colored lights to elucidate some of its workings.
 * 1) * 2004, David Bernstein, “Philosophy Hitches a Ride With ‘The Sopranos’,” New York Times, 13 April (retrieved 19 Aug. 2009):
 * The new Sopranos volume has 17 essays that examine the television show and elucidate concepts from classical philosophers, including Aristotle, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Sun Tzu and Plato.

Synonyms

 * explicate, illuminate

Derived terms

 * elucidation
 * elucidative
 * elucidator
 * elucidatory

Related terms

 * lucid
 * lucidity

Adverbs for Elucidate
graphically; clearly; extensively; thoroughly; patiently.

Thesaurus
account for, allegorize, annotate, clarify, clear, clear up, crack, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, enlighten, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, get across, get over, give reason for, give the meaning, illuminate, illustrate, make clear, make it clear, make plain, popularize, prove, put across, put over, rationalize, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, spell out, throw light upon, unfold, unlock, unravel, vulgarize

Etymology
From elucidatus:, past participle of elucido:, from  ex-: and lucidus:

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Danish: uddybe
 * Dutch:, , , verhelderen, clarificeren
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German: erläutern, verdeutlichen, erklären


 * Hebrew: ביאר, פירש
 * Italian:
 * Polish: objaśniać, wyjaśniać
 * Russian: разъяснять (raz"jasnjat')
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: klargöra,