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explicate verb clarify, define, describe, detail, elucidate, enlighten, enucleate, explain, explicare, expound, give a detailed explanation, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, interpretari, make clear, make explicit, make plain, render clear, reveal, shed light upon, simplify, spell out, throw light upon, translate, unfold, unfold the meaning of, unfold the sense of, unriddle, untangle See also: clarify, comment, construe, depict, elucidate, enlighten, exemplify, explain, exposit, expound, interpret How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This context of interpretation allowed explicators with sufficient insight and imagination to apprehend cryptic messages of Heaven, and to endow the seemingly accidental with a meaning and causal necessity that spoke directly to the concerns of reader or listener. Few Muslim explicators of Islam ever say things like, "The Prophet himself sometimes openly suppressed or negated older verses"--in a process called naskh--"considering them to have been replaced by newer ones. The researchers' theory comes mainly in the form of quotations from Bourdieu, or from explicators of his work: particularly about elites' preservation of cultural capital and the way ideology mystifies. |
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