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
The first and second are informative, explicative, they “take in and do”—the other “gives out.”
From Spare Hours by John Brown
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 Peter Mark Roget
He took his way toward the hotel of M. de Treville; his visit of the day before, it is to be remembered, had been very short and very little explicative.
From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père
