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

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

She was greatly interested, and asked several elucidatory questions.

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

We will give a little botanical sketch of the general characteristics of this order, as elucidatory of what we may hereafter have to say before we proceed to the details of any of its members.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Chambers, Robert