elucidative
adjEtymology From elucidate + -ive.
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Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.
- Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong.1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in Oliver Twist:
- In looking at this wreck of Governments in all European countries, there is one consideration that suggests itself, sadly elucidative of our modern epoch.1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, ch. 4 “The New Downing Street”