Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who unfolds or explains; an expounder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
person or thing whoexplicates
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Examples
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Essayist and explicator, author of the bestselling "A Walk in the Woods" (about hiking the Appalachian Trail, back when that had an innocent connotation) and a host of books on language and science and travel.
Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010
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My novelist friend Janet Fitch (White Oleander, Paint It Black), herself a literary explicator and connoisseur of female “badness,” was inspired to invoke those bad old days the other evening.
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My novelist friend Janet Fitch (White Oleander, Paint It Black), herself a literary explicator and connoisseur of female “badness,” was inspired to invoke those bad old days the other evening.
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Leap not from my car, even though I realize — given my confessed extramarital affair, avowed childhood desire to see my father explode into flames, and carpet of tattered Happy Meal wrappers — I may not strike you as the most reliable explicator of modern marriage.
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My novelist friend Janet Fitch (White Oleander, Paint It Black), herself a literary explicator and connoisseur of female “badness,” was inspired to invoke those bad old days the other evening.
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A committed generalist, a insanely prolific and indefagitable explicator of all and sundry – remind you of anyone?
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Essayist and explicator, author of the bestselling "A Walk in the Woods" (about hiking the Appalachian Trail, back when that had an innocent connotation) and a host of books on language and science and travel.
Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010
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Leap not from my car, even though I realize — given my confessed extramarital affair, avowed childhood desire to see my father explode into flames, and carpet of tattered Happy Meal wrappers — I may not strike you as the most reliable explicator of modern marriage.
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There's body armor, and there is also what Otto Rank called personality armor I haven't read Rank, just his explicator, Ernest Becker.
The Sexy Lean Fresca 2010
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell 2009
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