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

Il est donc contradictoire d'attribuer au hasard la raison explicative de l'ordre.”—Mercier, op. cit., § 260.523.Cf.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

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

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 Roget, Peter Mark

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 Jastrow, Morris