Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who elucidates or explains; an expositor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who explains or elucidates; an expositor.

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  • noun One who elucidates.

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Examples

  • The indispensible 11th Century elucidator Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki Rashi explained that he gave them spiritual gifts -- knowledge that they would need for their journey.

    Rabbi Adam Jacobs: Reincarnation In Judaism Rabbi Adam Jacobs 2011

  • The indispensible 11th Century elucidator Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki Rashi explained that he gave them spiritual gifts -- knowledge that they would need for their journey.

    Rabbi Adam Jacobs: Reincarnation In Judaism Rabbi Adam Jacobs 2011

  • First, language – elucidator of the brain, point of engagement with the mind of the writer, the mind of the character – does not have the same elasticity and grace around sex as it does around other forms of human confluence.

    Discussion: On Sex in Fiction 2009

  • Delmé was pursued by the echo's elucidator, who being duly remunerated, allowed Sir Henry to accompany the guide towards the boat.

    A Love Story A Bushman

  • With stories worthy of a great writer's handling transacting themselves on every hand, he is the first elucidator of the principle that a story-teller's business is to have no story.

    My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

  • Or a certain youthful pride that he evidenced at being the elucidator of such

    Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

  • Or a certain youthful pride that he evidenced at being the elucidator of such a large theme, and at having drawn her there to hear and observe it, may have inclined her to indulge him for kindness’ sake.

    Two on a Tower 2006

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