Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Explicate

Explicate , adjective

[Latin explicatus, past participle of explicare.]

Evolved; unfolded. — Jer. Taylor

Explicate , transitive verb

1.
To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obsolete]
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