explicative

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Wolfe’s writing can oscillate between graciously beautiful and being almost too explicative.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2017

The authors of the essay, though they deny the possibility of finding a single explicative principle chosen arbitrarily,504 themselves announce a principle, which, however, amounts simply to the statement that sacrifice is placatory.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

We reply: Yes! astronomical observation has overtaken theoretical or explicative science.

From The Sun changes its position in space therefore it cannot be regarded as being "in a condition of rest" by Tischner, August

Adj. explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical†; construable. polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic†; consignificative†, synonymous; equivalent &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

The first and second are informative, explicative, they “take in and do”—the other “gives out.”

From Spare Hours by Brown, John