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 Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

The first and second are informative, explicative, they “take in and do”—the other “gives out.”

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

We reply: Yes! astronomical observation has overtaken theoretical or explicative science.

From The Sun changes its position in space therefore it cannot be regarded as being "in a condition of rest" by Tischner, August

Hence such a proposition has also been called explicative.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth