explanatory matter
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A simple examination of a formula would suffice to teach us its contents without the aid of tiresome explanatory matter.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various
All recognized authorities are represented in the notes and explanatory matter, among them being Dyce, Coleridge, Dowden, Johnson, Malone, White and Hudson.
From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various
The explanatory matter is made clear by the use of simple language, by the elimination of unnecessary technical terms, and by the frequent introduction of illustrative sentences.
From Health Lessons Book 1 by Alvin Davison
Brackets are used to insert explanatory matter in a quotation which one gives from another writer.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever
But at the time of which we are treating these collections had not been reduced to writing: they were of considerable extent compared with the Bible or Koran and they admitted later explanatory matter.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
