Word Meanings - EXPLICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation. The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury. 2. The sense given by an expositor. Bp. Burnet.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPLICATION)

• Eversion
• Evolution
• Explication
• Explanation
• Exposition
• explication
• interpretation
• sense
• description

Related words: (words related to EXPLICATION)

• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• EVOLUTIONIST
  1. One skilled in evolutions. 2. one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics. Darwin.
• EXPLANATION
  1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory
• EVOLUTIONISM
  The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.
• EVOLUTIONARY
  Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.
• EXPLICATION
  1. The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation. The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury. 2. The sense given by an expositor. Bp. Burnet.
• DESCRIPTION
  1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions
• SENSEFUL
  Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. "Senseful speech." Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." Norris.
• EVOLUTION
  The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute. Hutton. (more info) 1. The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from
• EVERSION
  1. The act of eversing; destruction. Jer. Taylor. 2. The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.
• SENSELESS
  Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
• EVOLUTIONAL
  Relating to evolution. "Evolutional changes." H. Spenser.
• INTERPRETATION
  An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature. (more info) 1. The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream,
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• REVERSIONER
  One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.
• DEVOLUTION
  1. The act of rolling down. The devolution of earth down upon the valleys. Woodward. 2. Transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor. The devolution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable
• MISEXPOSITION
  Wrong exposition.
• COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY; COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY
  marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary.
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• MISEXPLICATION
  Wrong explication.
• REVOLUTION
  The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according
• REVOLUTIONIZE
  To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames. The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason.
• REVOLUTIONIST
  One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.
• COMMON SENSE
  See SENSE
• REVOLUTIONARY
  Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.