dilucidate

English

Verb

dilucidate (third-person singular simple present dilucidates, present participle dilucidating, simple past and past participle dilucidated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To elucidate; to clarify.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     And because the proceeding by interrogatories doth in my opinion much dilucidate things […] I will make use of that artifice.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dilucidate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• adulticide

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

dilucidate

1. inflection of dilucidare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

dilucidate f pl

1. feminine plural of dilucidato

Anagrams

• delucidati

Spanish

Verb

dilucidate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of dilucidar combined with te