dilucidate

verb

dilucidate

verb

Etymology From diēs (“day”) + lūcis (“light”) + -id + -ate.

1

Obsolete To elucidate; to clarify.

And because the proceeding by interrogatories doth in my opinion much dilucidate things […] I will make use of that artifice.1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)

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