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

If it is elucidatory, it is excusable: but Keble is not elucidatory.

From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

I can't tell you how kindly he greeted me, and with what charming little elucidatory comments he presented me to his wife and the other guests.

From Christine by Cholmondeley, Alice