EX'PLICATE, v.t. [L. explico, to unfold; ex and plico, to fold.
1. To unfold; to expand; to open. "They explicate the leaves." [In this sense, the word is not common, and hardly admissible.]2. To unfold the meaning or sense; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.The last verse of his last satyr is not yet sufficiently explicated.