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Example sentences for "elucidate"

Lexicographically close words:
else; elsen; elsewhere; elsewhither; elsewise; elucidated; elucidates; elucidating; elucidation; elucidations
  1. Noguchi, seeking more thoroughly to elucidate the mechanism of this protective action, finds that Cobra-venom forms a precipitate with blood-serum, when the latter is relatively poor in salts or when it is dilated with water.

  2. In order to elucidate this question, Phisalix and Bertrand first proved that the blood of normal hedgehogs is toxic to laboratory animals, especially to the guinea-pig.

  3. Several of the laws which regulate the changes of human speech have been discovered, and, in the hands of philologists, have been made to elucidate even the most obscure periods in the early migration of nations.

  4. Miss Maltravers had placed them in my hands in order that I might be acquainted with every fact that could at all elucidate the progress of Sir John's malady.

  5. A few examples will help very much to elucidate this theory of the aesthetic sublime and remove all doubt with regard to it; at the same time they will bring out the different degrees of this sense of the sublime.

  6. It may not perhaps be superfluous to elucidate further by an example how the law of causality has meaning only in relation to time and space, and the matter which consists in the union of the two.

  7. The present work forms the second part of the Latin Lessons, and is intended to elucidate practically all the important principles and rules of the Latin Syntax.

  8. Yet he nowhere endeavours to elucidate the working of this economic factor in the biologic field, or to show how it can possibly operate unless precisely in virtue of what he is so strangely and so inconsistently moved to condemn, viz.

  9. I had hoped that she would know something, or at least that she might give me some hint which would serve as a clue by which to elucidate the mystery of those incriminating letters, now, alas!

  10. The fact is, this gentleman is a detective, and we are endeavouring to elucidate the mystery of Mr Drury's disappearance.

  11. The logical and ethical difficulties still exist: they have never been elucidated: the Republic does not pretend to elucidate them, but overlooks or overleaps them.

  12. But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions.

  13. To elucidate the basic principle of Edison's method, let the crushed ore fall in a thin stream past such a magnet.

  14. Reference to the following diagrams will elucidate this principle more clearly than words alone can do.

  15. We present a series of records and documents which elucidate the practice and doctrine of the church in regard to slavery, as we find it in that age.

  16. I will elucidate that idea and shoot it into Jane.

  17. Of course, they will never know the source of the data, and I will help you elucidate and arrange the book, after it is all accomplished.

  18. Such exemption is rare nowadays, for skepticism broods with sable wings over the age" "It has always brooded where man essayed to lift the veil of Isis; to elucidate the arcana of the universe, to solve the unsolvable.

  19. Hartwell had told her, whenever she was puzzled, to come to him for explanation, and his clear analysis taught her how immeasurably superior he was, even to those instructors whose profession it was to elucidate mysteries.

  20. Provision is made in the ruling for any needful cross-reference to the withdrawals book, and a column is used for any remarks required to elucidate further the history of each book.

  21. Perhaps their conversation may elucidate this mystery.

  22. He determined to obtain access to the drawing-room once more, and trust to the chapter of accidents to elucidate the mystery.

  23. I will state a case which I hope will elucidate my meaning.

  24. By difficulties I now mean points which it is not easy to understand without a little dynamical theory; but we must face these difficulties, and endeavour to elucidate them as well as we can.

  25. Of late, however, the required light has been to some considerable extent forthcoming, and the attempt has been made, with no little success, to elucidate a most interesting and wonderful chapter of an exceedingly remote history.

  26. September, 1839, I have tried to elucidate in the twenty-first chapter.

  27. Huber have done much to elucidate the main physical features of the country.

  28. He gave himself out as an angel sent from God to elucidate the prophecies.

  29. I shall attempt to elucidate it gradually; but may often be compelled, as in geology, to relate only successive events without dates, and merely referred to a series of gradual facts.

  30. I will be enabled to translate and elucidate nearly all the Taino historical names and allusions, so as to clear up the annals by original etymologies.

  31. I shall endeavour to elucidate them, so as to reduce the whole to order.

  32. At an early period I endeavored to collect all the scattered fragments of this language, in order to elucidate and support the historical traditions.

  33. The sufficient summary of all that Catlin did to elucidate the Indian character and life will be found in Thomas Donaldson’s George Catlin’s Indian Gallery in the U.

  34. The early writers to elucidate the condition of the Delawares soon after the white contact are Vanderdonck, Campanius, Gabriel Thomas, and later there is something of value in Peter Kalm’s Travels.

  35. But the pleasures, consequent to the exertions of our sense of vision only, are designed here to be treated of, with occasional references to those of the ear, when they elucidate each other.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elucidate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    allegorize; clarify; clear; comment; crack; decipher; decode; demonstrate; descent; edify; elucidate; enlighten; exemplify; explain; explicate; expound; gloss; illuminate; illustrate; interpret; light; popularize; rationalize; show; simplify; solve; spell; state; translate; unfold; unlock; unravel; vulgarize