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
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
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
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 Morris Jastrow
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
