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
Thus, the explicative myths are as we see, an epitome of a practical philosophy, proportioned to the requirements of the man of the earliest, or slightly-cultured ages.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
It presents the peculiarities common to all Azurara's writings—the same fondness for quotations, and the same reliance on astrology as explicative of character.
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I by Gomes Eannes de Azurara
Kühner thinks that they are genuine, and explicative of the more general term ἄρχοντες.
From The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by John Selby Watson
Hence such a proposition has also been called explicative.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
