Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Explicate \Ex"pli*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Explicated}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Explicating}.]
   1. To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] ``They explicate
      the leaves.'' --Blackmore.

   2. To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of
      difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.

            The last verse of his last satire is not yet
            sufficiently explicated.              --Dryden.