adjective
definition
Intended to serve as an explanation.
example
Below the diagram is an explanatory text.
definition
(of a person) Disposed to explain.
Examples of explanatory in a Sentence
These collections contain introductions and explanatory passages by the author.
The incidents of this episode were a favorite subject in the sculptures of his temples, where their representation was accompanied by a poetical version of the affair and other explanatory inscriptions.
A copy of the orders and an explanatory letter were in fact despatched to the II.
It also publishes an excellent explanatory booklet, which can be downloaded free of charge.
Each should have an explanatory caption typed in double spacing on a separate sheet.
The consort Web site provides free access to the full-text CONSORT statement, supporting documentation and explanatory notes, and links to further initiatives.
Each section contains explanatory diagrams to aid understanding of the text.
Moreover, at one point, Stirner explicitly considers adopting the explanatory stance of psychological egoism only to reject it.
These are largely self- explanatory, the resource center search engine indexes more than 15,000 web documents in the area of civil engineering.
An explanatory memorandum has been provided setting out clearly how the motion would amend the Standing Orders.
Burke speaks of "some significant, pompous, creeping, explanatory, ambiguous matter, in the true Chathamic style."
After beating Hoodoo Brown, you obtain dual peacemakers which should be self explanatory.
There are some really good yoga DVDs on the market, many of which are very explanatory and careful.
You can order the system which explains the process and what foods you can eat; it contains several cookbooks, explanatory guides, eating plans, and motivational CDs to help start you on your way.
It may seem pretty simple and self explanatory, but in the mad rush of party planning, sometimes people forget some of the details.
Mercury himself said the song was self explanatory, with some "nonsense" thrown into the middle.
Apart from the adoption by Hume of the association of ideas as the explanatory formula of the school - it had been allowed by Malebranche within the framework of his mysticism and employed by Berkeley in his theory of vision - there are few fresh notes struck in the logic of sensationalism.
The Victoria County History contains a translation of the Domesday text, a map, and an explanatory introduction for each county.
In that case it would fall shortly before the Relief visit, to which there may be tacit explanatory allusion, in Gal.
It contains prophetical passages from the Old Testament relating to the person and work of Christ, accompanied by explanatory notes.
This property is doubtless partly - though not wholly - explanatory of the antipyretic action of quinine.
The short remarks explanatory of words in the text, originally written in the margin, became the gloss which, formed thus by successive additions, took a permanent form and losses.
Meaning, design and purpose are to him terms far more explanatory of his movements in the outer world than the mechanical and mathematical equivalents to which his actions will ultimately be reduced if the sciences should achieve their avowed purpose.
Salvian continued his friendly intercourse with both father and sons long after the latter had left his care; it was to Salonius (then a bishop) that he wrote his explanatory letter just after the publication of his treatise Ad ecclesiam; and to the same prelate a few years later he dedicated his great work, the De gubernatione Dei.
Frazer, the human representatives or animal representatives, in the rites, of the spirit of vegetation; of the corn spirit; of the changing seasons, winter or summer, have been developed into many forms of gods, with appropriate myths, explanatory of the magic, and of the sacrifice of the chief performer.
To discuss these myths as far as they can be considered apart from divine and explanatory tales would demand more space than we have at our disposal.
It was this comparatively mild Averroism, reduced to the merely explanatory activity of a commentator, which continued to be the official dogma at Padua during the 16th century.
In 1783 he published the Prolegomena, intended as an introduction to the Kritik, which had been found to stand in need of some explanatory comment.
He proceeded to take off on an explanatory lecture that mentioned anandamides as brain messenger molecules and details about brain chemistry.
Documentation and e-mail responses were good and fully explanatory.
Everyone was nice and polite and very explanatory and it helped a lot.
The ones they do preserve they insist were merely explanatory glosses on ' Uthman's text.
Multiple notes fields are used to provide as much explanatory and contextual information as possible.
That is, ' problem solving ' is a classificatory, not explanatory, term.
Yusuf Ali's explanatory footnotes are quite useful in some instances.
A blood group card with explanatory leaflet is issued to all RhD negative women.
You may wish to add an explanatory line to your corporate letterhead to clarify your new status.
Contained in five tables, with explanatory notes to each.
The course will be explanatory rather than mathematically rigorous.
A critical analysis of the narrative seems to reveal little else than a series of aetiological traditions, explanatory of cults and customs, e.g.
As regards Papias's Exposition, which Lightfoot describes as "among the earliest forerunners of commentaries, partly explanatory, partly illustrative, on portions of the New Testament," we need here only remark that, whatever its exact form may have been - as to which the extant fragments still leave room for doubt - it was in conception expository of the historic meaning of Christ's more ambiguous Sayings, viewed in the light of definitely ascertained apostolic traditions bearing on the subject.
The work is a small quarto containing fifty-seven pages of explanatory matter and a table of ninety pages (see Napier, John).
The simplest explanation is that they represent different traditions, the Gospel narrative being composed with more special reference to prophetic fulfilments, and being probably nearer the truth than the short explanatory note inserted by the author of the Acts (see Bernard, Expositor, June 1904, p. 422 seq.).
That Bacon underestimates the importance of selective and of provisional explanatory hypotheses even in such fields as that of chemistry, and that technically he is open to some criticism from the point of view that negative judgment is derivate as necessarily resting on positive presuppositions, may be true enough.
It was Liszt's habit to recommend novelties to the public by explanatory articles or essays, which were written in French (some for the Journal des debats and the Gazette musicale of Paris) and translated for the journals of Weimar and Leipzig - thus his two masterpieces of sympathetic criticism, the essays Lohengrin et Tannhduser a Weimar and Harold en Italie, found many readers and proved very effective.
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The volume knob is self explanatory, but the tone knob can be adjusted to further tweak the sound coming out of the pickups.
It is certainly probable that the nabhi a emerged by a process of continued development, of which the intermediate stages are lost, from the older roeh, as the explanatory gloss in i Sam.
In addition there should be mentioned the abundant explanatory inscriptions attached to wall-scenes as a secondary element in those compositions.
Hume derived from him the explanatory formula of the association of ideas, 8 which is, however, still with Hobbes a fact to be accounted for, not a theory to account for facts, being grounded physically in " coherence of the matter moved."