Expiry to Export
Expiry
(Ex"pi*ry) n. Expiration.
He had to leave at the expiry of the term.
Lamb.
The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term.
J. Morley. Expiscate
(Ex*pis"cate) v. t. [L. expiscatus, p. p. of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis
fish.] To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.]
Nichol.
Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them.
W. L. Alexander. Expiscation
(Ex`pis*ca"tion) n. The act of expiscating; a fishing. [R.] Chapman.
Expiscatory
(Ex*pis"ca*to*ry) a. Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.
Explain
(Ex*plain") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explained(- pland"); p. pr. & vb. n. Explaining.] [L. explandare
to flatten, spread out, explain; ex out + plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner,
explaner. See Plain,a., and cf. Esplanade.]
1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.]
The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf.
Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the
meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.
Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you.
Gay. To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite away." Pope.
Syn. — To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.
Explain
(Ex*plain"), v. i. To give an explanation.
Explainable
(Ex*plain"a*ble) a. [L. explainabilis.] Capable of being explained or made plain to the
understanding; capable of being interpreted. Sir. T. Browne.
Explainer
(Ex*plain"er) n. One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
Explanate
(Ex"pla*nate), a. [L. explanatus, p. p. of explanare. See Explain.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Spreading
or extending outwardly in a flat form.
Explanation
(Ex`pla*na"tion) n. [L. explanatio: cf. OF. esplanation.]
1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as,
the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.
2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.
3. The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense.
Different explanations [of the Trinity].
Bp. Burnet. 4. A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and
reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.
