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

One word alone issued from his lips, elucidatory of what was passing in his mind—it long remained imprinted on the memory of his faithful followers—that word was "Gammon!"

From Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers by Various

The circumstances, too, in which he had been met with, were such as to preclude all possibility of connecting any one single elucidatory fact with his history.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

That gentleman's dovetailed observations were by no means elucidatory on the point I came to clear up.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various