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

Kühner thinks that they are genuine, and explicative of the more general term ἄρχοντες.

From The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by Watson, John Selby

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

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 Dumas père, Alexandre