reexplicate

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

re- + explicate

Verb

reexplicate (third-person singular simple present reexplicates, present participle reexplicating, simple past and past participle reexplicated)

  1. To explicate again; to analyze or explain again.
    He was to reexplicate the poem, as his professor was not satisfied with his work.
    • 2017, Niels van Dijk, Grounds of the Immaterial‎, unnumbered page:
      When one refers to a case, one has to reexplicate the case and indicate why it is relevant in the present dispute.
    • 1998, Paolo Janni, Italy in Transition‎, page 141:
      In addition to this periodization and the appended bibliography of materials which rearticulate and reexplicate the 'peoplehood' to whom the concept of Italicity may be appropriate, the following sources are included: […]
    • 2005, Gigi Anders, Jubana!‎, page 12:
      Yet Mami makes me repeat and reexplicate everything I say as though she's a dim-witted, illiterate, recently arrived, monolingual refugee.
    • 2022 December 16, marilenn65, wreninkpaper.com‎:
      […] there ARE patterns that repeat themselves from novel to novel and that when they are recognized, they can be used to reexplicate the novels that have gone before them or those that follow: […]
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