Elucidate

ɪˈluːsɪˌdeɪt

verb

to make something clear or explain it

The word 'elucidate' comes from the Latin word 'elucidatus', meaning 'to explain'. It is commonly used in academic, scientific, and literary contexts to describe the act of making something clearer or explaining a complex idea in a simple way.

It was not a council of war, but, as it were, a council to elucidate certain questions for the Emperor personally.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

And when the auditor had asserted his noncomprehension, he would proceed to elucidate by some new proposition, yet more appalling.

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

Murdock of the Grace Methodist Church would that Sunday elucidate on the topic "God Speaks to Each of Us Every Day"—with a text from First Corinthians.

Stephen King

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)

All these particulars are faithfully narrated here, as they will not fail to elucidate several most important, however intricate passages, in scenes hereafter to be painted.

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine.

Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

“Who art thou?” asked he, and gave him his hand, “there is much to clear up and elucidate between us, but already methinketh pure clear day is dawning.” “I am the spiritually conscientious one,” answered he who was asked, “and in matters of the spirit it is difficult for anyone to take it more rigorously, more restrictedly, and more severely than I, except him from whom I learnt it, Zarathustra himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spake Zarathustra

How did he elucidate the mystery of an invisible person, his wife Marion (Molly) Bloom, denoted by a visible splendid sign, a lamp?

James Joyce

Ulysses

Another book I have which I call The Supplement to Polydore Virgil, which treats of the invention of things, and is a work of great erudition and research, for I establish and elucidate elegantly some things of great importance which Polydore omitted to mention.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote