Associations to the word «Explication»

Wiktionary

EXPLICATION, noun. The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
EXPLICATION, noun. The sense given by an expositor.

Dictionary definition

EXPLICATION, noun. The act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc..
EXPLICATION, noun. A detailed explanation of the meaning of something.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope