explicableadj.

Brit.

/ᵻkˈsplɪkəbl/,

/ɛkˈsplɪkəbl/,

/ˈɛksplᵻkəbl/, U.S.

/ɛkˈsplɪkəbəl/,

/ˈɛkspləkəbəl/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French explicable; Latin explicābilis.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French explicable (c1500; French explicable ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin explicābilis capable of being explained < explicāre explicate v. + -bilis -ble suffix. Compare Italian esplicabile (beginning of the 14th cent.). Compare earlier inexplicable adj.

1. That may be explicated; (formerly) †that may be described in detail or made explicit (obsolete); (subsequently) that may be explained; that admits of being cleared of difficulty, or of being accounted for.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adjective] > capable of explanation

explicable1545

explainable1610

illustrable1658

accountable1665

solvablea1845

illustratable1850

expoundable1887

1545 E. Walshe Office & Duety Fighting for Countrey sig. C.iii^v Howe moche more shulde we be euen enflamed beholdynge the princely clemency fortitude and magnanimitie of our liege and naturell kynge Henrye the eyght..were the same by any oratour explicable.

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxiv. 82 All parts of best wit had bene vnable To catch, kepe, and make, thacount explicable.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 102 How the sight is made..is not with facilitie explicable.

1624 J. Fisher in F. White Reply Fisher 266 This Text being thus cleerely explicable.

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall i. 22 That notion by which it seems likely that most, if not all, of them [sc. experiments] will prove explicable.

1723 W. Staunton Rev. Mr. Whiston's XXIII Propositions iii. 8 The Fourth Verse of that Gospel is not, I conceive, otherwise explicable or intelligible.

1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. (1819) XI. 300 It is not explicable..why the Nabob..could not have equally given them [bills] in discharge of the debt.

1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 229 The word Coning or king, and the word Tascio, purse or scrip, are as explicable in Gothic as in Welsh.

1877 S. J. Owen in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches Introd. p. xxxi His apparently harsh conduct..is..mainly explicable on this ground.

1910 New Outlook 8 Jan. 81/1 Here the extraordinary event is not only explicable, it is actually explained.

1954 Financial Times 22 Oct. 5/2 Mr. Coward's absolute assurance is easily explicable: a man who has taken infinite pains has a right to expect our applause.

2007 Best Life Feb. 64/2 People expect definitive medical answers for things that aren't completely explicable.

†2. Of an equation: solvable. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [adjective] > relating to expressions > relating to equations

algebraic1657

lateral1670

explicable1706

unreduced1762

homogeneous1815

resolvent1860

Pellian1862

equational1864

canonizant1879

variational1879

unilateral1884

non-dimensional1904

open1937

inhomogeneous1943

stiff1952

1706 E. Halley in Miscellanea Curiosa (Royal Soc.) II. 84 The Equation proposed, is not explicable by any other Root.

Derivatives

exˈplicableness n. the quality of being explicable.

ΚΠ

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Explicableness, capableness of being explained.

1872 E. Tuckerman Genera Lichenum 84 The presumption that its fruit shall be explicable from the same standpoint is as strong, as in any other case in which this explicableness is admitted.

1911 Philos. Rev. 20 307 The key to the explicableness of the world does not lie in the vacuum left after that which constitutes knowledge is stripped away, but is found in the principle of the construction of knowledge.

2002 D. M. Berube in K. T. Broda-Bahm Perspectives in Controv. v. 286 The criteria would include four factors: 1. explicableness 2. corroborability 3. falsifiability, and 4. ability to enhance truth-value.

exˈplicability n. the fact or quality of being explicable (cf. inexplicability n. a).

ΚΠ

1789 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy I. xxii. 212 The legibility, and the explicability, of the human countenance.

1892 A. B. Bruce Apologetics i. iv. 94 They assume the conceivability of the world, its explicability by natural causes,..as an axiom.

1964 I. C. Jarvie Revol. in Anthropol. (1967) i. iv. 22 An anthropological problem may involve two aspects..: the explicability of the social set-up, and the explicability..of an action within the set-up.

2015 A. V. Nesteruk Sense of Universe vi. 400 Its [sc. cosmology's] research goes on under the assumption that there is a goal of research..related to the explicability of the universe.

exˈplicably adv. [compare earlier inexplicably adv.] in an explicable manner, so as to be explainable; understandably.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adverb]

expositively1571

expository-wise1600

explicatively1609

expositorilya1631

accountably1646

illustratively1646

explanatorily1657

luciferouslya1682

explicably1791

explainingly1836

explanatively1842

it's this way1851

illuminatingly1891

1791 J. Wesley Coll. Hymns for Methodists (ed. 7) 250 One explicably three, One in simplest unity.

1875 A. W. Ward Hist. Eng. Dramatic Lit. II. viii. 301 In the character of Bassanes, the jealous husband, doting folly is suddenly, and not very explicably, succeeded by conscientious repentance.

1961 V. H. H. Green Young Mr. Wesley vii. 134 It is possible that the Rector was increasingly and explicably unwilling to entrust Wesley with the care of pupils.

1986 Financial Times 25 Oct. (Weekend Suppl.) p. xxiii/1 The plot, complex enough to earn the title ‘problem play’, came over most explicably.

2014 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 26 Apr. 26 The water so exquisitely clear, the tourists so explicably there.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	explicable
释义	explicableadj. Brit. /ᵻkˈsplɪkəbl/, /ɛkˈsplɪkəbl/, /ˈɛksplᵻkəbl/, U.S. /ɛkˈsplɪkəbəl/, /ˈɛkspləkəbəl/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French explicable; Latin explicābilis. Etymology: < (i) Middle French explicable (c1500; French explicable ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin explicābilis capable of being explained < explicāre explicate v. + -bilis -ble suffix. Compare Italian esplicabile (beginning of the 14th cent.). Compare earlier inexplicable adj. 1. That may be explicated; (formerly) †that may be described in detail or made explicit (obsolete); (subsequently) that may be explained; that admits of being cleared of difficulty, or of being accounted for. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adjective] > capable of explanation explicable1545 explainable1610 illustrable1658 accountable1665 solvablea1845 illustratable1850 expoundable1887 1545 E. Walshe Office & Duety Fighting for Countrey sig. C.iii^v Howe moche more shulde we be euen enflamed beholdynge the princely clemency fortitude and magnanimitie of our liege and naturell kynge Henrye the eyght..were the same by any oratour explicable. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxiv. 82 All parts of best wit had bene vnable To catch, kepe, and make, thacount explicable. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 102 How the sight is made..is not with facilitie explicable. 1624 J. Fisher in F. White Reply Fisher 266 This Text being thus cleerely explicable. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall i. 22 That notion by which it seems likely that most, if not all, of them [sc. experiments] will prove explicable. 1723 W. Staunton Rev. Mr. Whiston's XXIII Propositions iii. 8 The Fourth Verse of that Gospel is not, I conceive, otherwise explicable or intelligible. 1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. (1819) XI. 300 It is not explicable..why the Nabob..could not have equally given them [bills] in discharge of the debt. 1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 229 The word Coning or king, and the word Tascio, purse or scrip, are as explicable in Gothic as in Welsh. 1877 S. J. Owen in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches Introd. p. xxxi His apparently harsh conduct..is..mainly explicable on this ground. 1910 New Outlook 8 Jan. 81/1 Here the extraordinary event is not only explicable, it is actually explained. 1954 Financial Times 22 Oct. 5/2 Mr. Coward's absolute assurance is easily explicable: a man who has taken infinite pains has a right to expect our applause. 2007 Best Life Feb. 64/2 People expect definitive medical answers for things that aren't completely explicable. †2. Of an equation: solvable. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [adjective] > relating to expressions > relating to equations algebraic1657 lateral1670 explicable1706 unreduced1762 homogeneous1815 resolvent1860 Pellian1862 equational1864 canonizant1879 variational1879 unilateral1884 non-dimensional1904 open1937 inhomogeneous1943 stiff1952 1706 E. Halley in Miscellanea Curiosa (Royal Soc.) II. 84 The Equation proposed, is not explicable by any other Root. Derivatives exˈplicableness n. the quality of being explicable. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Explicableness, capableness of being explained. 1872 E. Tuckerman Genera Lichenum 84 The presumption that its fruit shall be explicable from the same standpoint is as strong, as in any other case in which this explicableness is admitted. 1911 Philos. Rev. 20 307 The key to the explicableness of the world does not lie in the vacuum left after that which constitutes knowledge is stripped away, but is found in the principle of the construction of knowledge. 2002 D. M. Berube in K. T. Broda-Bahm Perspectives in Controv. v. 286 The criteria would include four factors: 1. explicableness 2. corroborability 3. falsifiability, and 4. ability to enhance truth-value. exˈplicability n. the fact or quality of being explicable (cf. inexplicability n. a). ΚΠ 1789 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy I. xxii. 212 The legibility, and the explicability, of the human countenance. 1892 A. B. Bruce Apologetics i. iv. 94 They assume the conceivability of the world, its explicability by natural causes,..as an axiom. 1964 I. C. Jarvie Revol. in Anthropol. (1967) i. iv. 22 An anthropological problem may involve two aspects..: the explicability of the social set-up, and the explicability..of an action within the set-up. 2015 A. V. Nesteruk Sense of Universe vi. 400 Its [sc. cosmology's] research goes on under the assumption that there is a goal of research..related to the explicability of the universe. exˈplicably adv. [compare earlier inexplicably adv.] in an explicable manner, so as to be explainable; understandably. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [adverb] expositively1571 expository-wise1600 explicatively1609 expositorilya1631 accountably1646 illustratively1646 explanatorily1657 luciferouslya1682 explicably1791 explainingly1836 explanatively1842 it's this way1851 illuminatingly1891 1791 J. Wesley Coll. Hymns for Methodists (ed. 7) 250 One explicably three, One in simplest unity. 1875 A. W. Ward Hist. Eng. Dramatic Lit. II. viii. 301 In the character of Bassanes, the jealous husband, doting folly is suddenly, and not very explicably, succeeded by conscientious repentance. 1961 V. H. H. Green Young Mr. Wesley vii. 134 It is possible that the Rector was increasingly and explicably unwilling to entrust Wesley with the care of pupils. 1986 Financial Times 25 Oct. (Weekend Suppl.) p. xxiii/1 The plot, complex enough to earn the title ‘problem play’, came over most explicably. 2014 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 26 Apr. 26 The water so exquisitely clear, the tourists so explicably there. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1545
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