noun
definition
The act of opening or unfolding.
definition
The act of explaining; an explanation.
definition
The sense given by an expositor.
Examples of explication in a Sentence
Among the manuscripts in the possession of the earl of Portsmouth there are many sheets in Sir Isaac's hand of Flamsteed's Explication of Hieroglyphic Figures, and in another hand many sheets of William Yworth's Processus Mysterii Magni Philosophicus.
Philosophy may be said to be the explication of what is involved in this relation, or, in Kantian phraseology, a theory of its possibility.
He examines ideas (" explication of conceptions ") and by the" colligation of facts endeavours to unite these ideas to the facts and so construct science.
A fuller explication of this proposed axiology would have been useful.
The organized criticism of these conceptions is really nothing more than the full explication of what they mean and of what experience in its full nature or notion is.
But in any case it is characteristic of theosophy that it starts with an explication of the Divine essence, and endeavours to deduce the phenomenal universe from the play of forces within the Divine nature itself.