explicative

How to use explicative in a sentence

• All of Edwards's other writings may be arranged in relation to this principle,—as introductory, explicative, or defensive.

  Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 13 | Various

• The first and second are informative, explicative, they take in and dothe other gives out.

  Spare Hours | John Brown

• The explicative myths, arising from utility, from the necessity of knowing.

  Essay on the Creative Imagination | Th. Ribot