elucidatory

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More often than not, Private Empire is a compelling and elucidatory work, though its disciplined, very ExxonMobil-esque adherence to rigor and propriety does make for some moments of reader fatigue.

From BusinessWeek • May 18, 2012

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some elucidatory remarks have, however, been added at the close of the second and fourth Lectures, which I hope may be of more use than the passages which I was obliged to omit.

From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by Ruskin, John

Suited to the youthful mind, and calculated to assist Instructors, filled as it is with really good Diagrams and Drawings elucidatory of the text.”—Globe.

From The Royal Picture Alphabet by Leighton, John

The first lecture is printed, with only addition here and there of an elucidatory word or phrase, precisely as it was given on the 4th February.

From The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 by Ruskin, John