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
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
The first and second are informative, explicative, they “take in and do”—the other “gives out.”
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
Hence such a proposition has also been called explicative.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
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
