explicitadj.n.¹

Brit.

/ᵻkˈsplɪsɪt/,

/ɛkˈsplɪsɪt/, U.S.

/ᵻkˈsplɪsᵻt/,

/ɛkˈsplɪsᵻt/

Forms: 1500s–1600s explicite, 1600s– explicit.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French explicite; Latin explicitus, explicāre.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French explicite clear, definite (1488, originally in specific theological use in foy explicite explicit faith), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin explicitus free from difficulties, in post-classical Latin also clear (5th cent. in Augustine; from 13th cent. in specific theological use in fides explicita ), (of a declaration or utterance) express (1511 in the passage translated in quot. 1549 at sense A. 2a, or earlier), use as adjective of past participle of explicāre explicate v. Compare Spanish explícito (early 15th cent. in explícitamente , adverb), Portuguese explícito (15th cent. in explícitamente , adverb), Italian esplicito (a1342), all earliest in sense ‘clear, definite’. Compare implicit adj.Classical Latin explicāre has two forms of the past participle, explicātus and explicitus . The former is regular in early Latin, but tends to be replaced by the latter after the time of Cicero. Both forms are widely used in post-classical Latin, although the form explicitus is more common in the medieval period. Use in sense A. 4 apparently reflects awareness of the relatedness of this word and explicate v. (compare the sense ‘to level out, smooth’ of classical Latin explicāre ). With the specific use in mathematics (see sense A. 5) compare the corresponding uses of post-classical Latin explicitus (1761 or earlier) and French explicite (1796 or earlier).

A. adj.

a. Theology. explicit faith, explicit belief: the acceptance of a doctrine with distinct apprehension of all that is logically involved in it. Opposed to implicit faith at implicit adj. 3a.

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1546 G. Joye Refut. Byshop Winchesters Derke Declar. f. lvii^v It is neither your acquisite ne your formed ne vnformed faith.., neither your explicite ne implicite faith, neither your fained ne deade faith.

1598 T. Stoughton Gen. Treat. against Poperie 276 In the law of nature that explicite faith was sufficient, which might be had in the naturall vnderstanding with out any bookes.

1605 R. Smith Answer to T. Bels Challeng vii. i. 284 Though they [sc. traditions] be not such, as the actual and explicite beleefe of them be so necessarie, as none whatsoeuer can be saued without it.

1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 119 Every man is bound to have a personall explicite Faith of his own.

1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon ii. 85 The explicite beliefe of them is no necessary part of Christian communion.

1707 G. Keith Necessity of Faith 12 Cornelius and his Friends, had not the Explicit Faith that Jesus was the Christ, until it was Preached unto him by St. Peter.

1788 tr. I. Mouradgea d'Ohsson Oriental Antiq. 117 By the faith here alluded to, is meant an explicit and formal belief of the dogmas, which is considered as absolutely necessary to salvation.

1846 Brownson's Q. Rev. Jan. 36 From these and many other texts which might be adduced, it is evident that explicit faith in the principal or primary doctrine is necessary as the medium of salvation.

1880 R. F. Littledale Plain Reasons xxv. 73 Implicit belief in the Pope is not sufficient; that must be explicit.

1909 G. Tyrrell Christianity at Cross-roads 18 The distinction just mentioned between implicit and explicit belief; between the cloak folded and the cloak outspread.

1936 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Texas) No. 24. 252 Explicit faith, the opposite of implicit, involved assent only when reason clearly perceived the nature of the doctrine or mystery.

2011 I. Levy Let. to Galatians 76 The patriarchs were certainly holy..but they did not possess an ‘explicit faith’ as did the people of the New Testament, to whom the truth was openly revealed through Christ.

b. Of knowledge, an idea, etc.: developed in detail; (hence) clear, definite, plain.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > evident certainty > [adjective]

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1623 H. Rogers Answer to Mr. Fisher 10 What you meane by learne? whether an actuall explicite knowledge, or an habituall only implicite knowledge?

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. ii. 11 The Understanding hath an implicit Knowledge of these Principles, but not an explicit, before this first hearing.

1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 379 How impossible it is for us, to have a clear, and Explicit Notion of that which is infinite.

1721 R. Manning Case stated Church of Rome II. 344 Otherwise whoever has not an explicit knowledge of all Truths whatsoever contain'd in the whole Bible, cannot be said to have an entire Faith, which is absurd.

1799 W. Jones Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 2) II. App. 567 These telescopes are made by us of various lengths and diameters, the annexed table will give the reader a more explicit idea of their dimensions, power, &c.

1849 R. M. Martin Railways, Past, Present & Prospective 81 The Great Western, South Western, Midland, and other Railways, also profited by the more explicit knowledge of the state of their affairs.

1899 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 1898 15 604 I should like very much to ask the gentleman..to give us a somewhat more explicit idea as to what he means when he says that [etc.].

1925 J. M. Murry Keats & Shakespeare (1958) ii. 22 We shall fall into the error of imagining that poetry which contains the greatest amount of explicit and recognizable thought is the profoundest poetry.

1979 E. Jennings in PN Rev. No. 12. 35/1 But in the large flights of imagination I see for one crammed second, order so Explicit that I need no more persuasion.

2001 Yoga Jrnl. Sept. 107/2 In more primitive cultures people lacked explicit knowledge of the intricate biological processes we're now beginning to describe.

a. Of a declaration, indication, utterance, etc.: distinctly expressing all that is meant; leaving nothing merely implied or suggested; express.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [adjective]

explicit1549

expressible1605

effable1637

evolveda1641

describable1655

disimplicated1753

enunciable1825

talkable1830

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] > explicit

expressc1386

enunciative1531

explicate1532

expressed1534

explicit1549

unimplicit1673

explained1685

implicit1727

disimplicated1753

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Liv^v Thei are hedged in on all sides, with suche a gard of Magistral diffinicions, conclusions, corollaries, explicite and implicite proposicions [L. propositionum explicitarum et implicitarum].

1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Explicite, made manifest, vnfolded.

1642 J. March Argument Militia 26 Every Oath..ought..[to be] explicite, I mean, without implications, or etcetera's.

1654 O. Cromwell Speech 12 Sept. There was an explicit consent and an implicit consent.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. v. 73 What their [the angels'] sin was is not explicit.

1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. vii. 62 The Landgrave..wrote to Granvelle..begging an explicit declaration of what they had to fear or to hope.

1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xi. §42 If a poor man who is ready to die with hunger steal a loaf of bread, it is a less explicit sign of depravity than [etc.].

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 201 Promises more explicit had been held out to him of forgiveness.

1880 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 255 235 The Amendment of the hon. Member made it explicit that the instructions must be given by some person having superintendence.

1932 E. Waugh Black Mischief v. 182 His Majesty's ordnance seemed perfectly explicit to me.

1982 I. Asimov Foundation's Edge (1983) v. 70 The only official prerogative of the First Speaker was that which was explicit in his title—he always spoke first.

2002 Trames 6 241 To all laws or drafts, an explicit declaration was added..that the voter shall vote himself or herself.

†b. Of a plot: free from intricacies; simple. Obsolete.

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1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes Pref. 5 That commonly call'd the Plot, whether intricate or explicit.

a. Of a person or his or her qualities: stating fully all that is meant; definite and unreserved in expression; (also) outspoken.

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the mind > language > statement > [adjective] > stating explicitly (of persons)

expressa1593

explicita1624

a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xix. 311 That Imperial authoritie, which Kings and Emperours have either given to that Nicene Canon, or which they in more explicite manner shall impart unto the Primates or Bishops in their Kingdomes.

1673 J. Flavel Fountain of Life Opened viii. 86 But to be more explicite, and clear; I shall In the next place enquire, what it implys and carries in it.

1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. vii. 134 How explicit they are with themselves, is another Question.

1756 P. Pott Treat. Ruptures Pref. p. xxvii To express myself..in as plain, explicit and intelligible manner as I am capable.

1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxvi. 59 The explicit firmness and decision of a King.

1828 New Jerusalem Mag. Dec. 119 He is explicit in stating that he saw and heard them in the spiritual world.

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Biogr. (1867) 180 No man who is at the head of affairs always wishes to be explicit.

1906 J. Macgowan Imperial Hist. China (ed. 2) xxx. 472 He was explicit in his statement that they had all agreed to murder the Emperor when he went out in spring to perform the royal ceremony of ploughing.

1930 N. Coward Private Lives ii. 51 Elyot. Please try to be more explicit. Amanda. You know perfectly well what I mean.

2005 CIO 1 Nov. 36/2 Do this by getting them to be more explicit and specific about what they want you to do, and then say back to them.

b. Directly describing or representing sexual activity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [adjective] > sexually explicit or sensational

adults-only1916

explicit1925

sexational1928

adult1943

1925 Life 28 Jan. 18/2 Its bits of explicit sex conversation (and pretty explicit they are, too, even to old men-of-the-world like the staff of this department) somehow ring true enough to make them no giggling matter.

1964 Times 23 Apr. 15/3 The justification of the film's very explicit sex-scenes.

1972 R. Michael et al. ABZ of Pornogr. 39 His films are not explicit—no genitals for instance—and they are often intentionally droll and whimsical.

1977 Washington Post 21 Sept. b6/3 Juveniles are not mature enough to cope with the often provocative and explicit material of sex magazines.

1985 Billboard 21 Sept. 72/4 Weiss had suggested..that ‘peer pressure’ from other songwriters might ‘embarrass’ the writers of explicit lyrics and cause them to ‘shape up’.

2014 Times (Nexis) 3 Sept. 11 The FBI has opened an investigation into the theft of hundreds of explicit photos and videos from the private online accounts of female celebrities.

†4. Of the brow: free from folds or wrinkles; smooth. Obsolete.

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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [adjective] > without wrinkles or folds

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1697 J. Evelyn Numismata ix. 296 The chearful Forehead is explicit and smooth.

5. Mathematics. Designating a mathematical expression in which the relationship between dependent and independent variables is expressed explicitly. Chiefly in explicit function. Contrasted with implicit function at implicit adj. 2a.The function y = x + 1 is an example of an explicit function. For comparison, the equation of the unit circle, x² + y² = 1, is not explicit—in this case the expressed relationship is one between the squares of each variable.

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1814 P. Barlow New Math. & Philos. Dict. sig. X7 Having given the methods..of obtaining the derived functions, of functions of one or more quantities, whether those functions be explicit or implicit,..we will now show how this theory may be applied.

1870 W. G. Peck Pract. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus i. v. 50 When these equations are solved the implicit function becomes explicit.

1910 E. J. Townsend & G. A. Goodenough Essentials Calculus ii. 40 In the form in which the function is here written it is also an explicit function of x.

1955 D. A. Quadling Math. Anal. xiii. 223 There is no hard and fast distinction between implicit and explicit functions.

2008 J. Stewart Single Variable Calculus : Early Transcendentals (ed. 6) iii. 207 In some cases it is possible to solve such an equation for y as an explicit function..of x.

6. Chemistry. Of or relating to a model (esp. of solvation) in which the behaviour of the individual components of a substance or structure being studied is taken into account, typically in order to study local interactions between these and another element of the system or process being modelled; (also) designating such a model.

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1976 J. L. Burch et al. in Environmental Effects Molecular Struct. & Properties 24 It is desirable to include a substantial number of explicit solvent molecules within the microscopic sphere, so that a reasonable description of microscopic interactions can be obtained.

1987 J. A. McCammon & S. C. Harvey Dynamics of Proteins & Nucleic Acids (1988) v. 105 The inclusion of explicit solvent has been shown to improve the agreement with experiment.

1995 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92 10927/2 The results of the latter study are in good agreement with the results obtained here with an explicit solvation model.

2005 Jrnl. Computational Chem. 26 1369/1 In cases where the simulation method used and available computation time allow the inclusion of explicit water, this is preferable to a continuum description of the solvent.

2007 Ann. Rep. Computational Chem. 3 220 An explicit membrane formed by 52 molecules of diauroylphophatidylcholine.

B. n.¹

Something which is or has been made explicit; an explicit doctrine, idea, expression, etc. Also with the and plural agreement: explicit things collectively. Often contrasted with implicit n.¹ Additions.

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1641 F. Rous Catholick Charitie iii. 229 Transubstantiation is an Article of their new faith, and not usually reckoned among their explicites.

1679 R. Baxter Which is True Church? iii. 152 But perhaps he spake distributively of two sorts of Faith, viz. both the Implicite and the Explicite.

1808 J. Grant Inst. Lat. Gram. 326 The explicit is when the noun is expressed, to which the verb or adjective refers.

1907 A. E. Waite Steps to Crown iv. 205 The Church is a secret order constituted according to the explicits of its own consciousness as a Mystery in three degrees—militant, suffering and glorious.

1999 H. M. Roisman Nothing is as it Seems iv. 97 The tension between the implicit and the explicit is the major source of the play's propelling force.

2014 S. Strauss & P. Feiz Disc. Anal. p. vii The multivariate ways in which we express..ideas..: both the said and the unsaid; the explicit and the implicit; the word, the gesture, or both.

Compounds

explicit definition n. chiefly Logic and Philosophy a definition which formally sets out the meaning of a concept or expression, as by specifying necessary and sufficient conditions for its applicability; a statement to the effect that the expression being defined has the same meaning as another expression which defines it; a definition which can be substituted for the defined expression in sentences in which that expression occurs.In technical contexts of mathematics, logic, etc., often contrasted with implicit definition.

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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [noun] > definition

description1574

definition1645

explicit definition1853

definiens1871

1853 Bibliotheca Sacra Jan. 25 He [sc. Socrates] resorted continually to explicit definitions, which he required his pupils to express at the outset in the best way they could, and, in the progress of the discussion,..to narrow or widen the compass of the definitions, till they answered all the demands of the subject, till they expressed the thing, the whole thing, and nothing but the thing.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. iii. 39 The full and explicit definition of Logic, therefore, is,—the science of the Laws of Thought as Thought; or, the science of the Laws of the Form of Thought; or, the science of the Formal Laws of Thought:—these being only three various expressions of what is really the same.

1936 A. J. Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic iii. 67 The vast majority of the definitions..in ordinary discourse are explicit definitions... Thus,..in the English language, the two symbols ‘oculist’ and ‘eye-doctor’ are synonymous.

1958 A. Pap Semantics & Necessary Truth I. ii. 40 Difficulties of this sort..presumably led mathematicians such as Hilbert to abandon the quest for explicit definitions of the terms ‘straight line’, ‘point’, ‘plane’, and instead to define them implicitly as whatever entities satisfy the formal axioms formulated by means of them.

2001 L. Udehn Methodological Individualism (2002) vi. 173 Carnap understands ‘explicit definition’ in a broad sense... An explicit definition is such that all statements about the object (or concept) defined (definiendum) can be eliminated and replaced by statements about the elements in terms of which it is defined (definiens).

explicit memory n. Psychology (originally) conscious recollection of events and facts; (in later use) spec. the type of memory that is exhibited when performance on a task is facilitated by conscious recollection of previous experiences; (also) a memory of this kind.Contrasted with implicit memory.

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1886 C. Creighton Illustr. Unconscious Memory in Dis. i. 15 Generation is implicit memory, consciousness is explicit memory.

1923 Mind 32 280 The sense of familiarity is distinct from explicit memory and yet entirely undeniable.

1985 P. Graf & D. L. Schachter in Jrnl. Exper. Psychol.: Learning, Memory, & Cognition 11 501/2 A variety of terms has been used to distinguish between the type of memory that is tapped by priming tests on the one hand, and by recall and recognition tests on the other hand... For descriptive purposes, we use the terms implicit memory and explicit memory to distinguish between these forms of memory.

2000 Current Direct. Psychol. Sci. 9 56/2 Young children do form certain kinds of explicit memories easily.

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† explicitv.¹

Forms: Middle English explysyth, Middle English–1500s explicit, 1500s expliceth.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin explicit.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin explicit (5th cent. or earlier) < explic. , scribal abbreviation of explicitus est , 3rd person singular perfect passive of classical Latin explicāre to unfold, to unroll, to complete a text (see explicate v., and compare etymological note at explicit adj.) + -it , 3rd person singular present active ending, after implicit (see implicit adj. and see further discussion below). Compare post-classical Latin expliciunt (from 8th cent. in British sources) and similar forms (for which see e.g. B. Bischoff Latin Palaeography (1990) 44). Compare the forms explysyth and expliceth, which show similar remodelling after Middle English and early modern English -th, 3rd person singular present ending. Compare Middle French explicit (first half of the 14th cent.).Classical Latin explicāre is used of the completion of texts by Martial ( Epigrams 14.4.2, versibus explicitum omne est duobus opus ‘Every piece is completed in two lines’) and Sidonius ( Letters 8.1.1, opus..explicitum ‘the completed work’). The earliest manuscripts in which the verb is used by a scribe to mark the completion of a text or section of a text are of the 5th century, and in these, not only is it always abbreviated, to explic., expl., or exp., but moreover, the abbreviation is already coming to be expanded to explicit under the influence of implicit, which follows it immediately in statements that one part of a work ends and another begins. So, for instance, in the 5th-century Codex Mediceus of Virgil, Book 6 of the Aeneid is followed by the inscription Aeneidos lib. vi. explic. Inc. lib. vii ‘Book 6 of the Aeneid ends and Book 7 begins’, but the Eclogues are followed by the inscription Bucolicon liber explicit incipit Georgicon lib. i ‘The book of Eclogues ends and the first book of Georgics begins’. The 6th-century Codex Florentinus of the Pandects of Justinian likewise has the abbreviations explic. and expl. and the form explicit, but never explicitus est (early printed editions, however, inserted this form in texts purporting to reproduce this manuscript, and it appears on their authority in the Thesaurus linguae latinae, at explico, sense VI. A. 1). As early as the beginning of the 5th century, St Jerome remarks ( Epistles 28.4, CSEL 54.229) that nos solemus conpletis opusculis..interponere ‘explicuit’ [variant reading: 'explicit']..aut aliquid istiusmodi ‘We are accustomed to insert “explicit”..or something of that kind into completed works’. The form explicitus est appears sporadically in the colophons of later manuscripts, e.g. the 10th-century Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia Cod. 76, fo. 159v, explicitus est liber ethimologiarum.

Obsolete.

Only as 3rd singular present.

intransitive. Used by an author or scribe in indicating the end of a book, or of one of the separate pieces contained in a manuscript: ‘(here) ends’.In quot. c1560: ‘it ends here, this is the end’.

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c1350 in London Mediaeval Stud. (1951) 2 45 (MED) Wyt an on and an I wytouten eny wyr I may noust wyne and þriue al in a ȝere; Explicit ȝeddyngus de Prust papelard.

c1450 in Englische Studien (1925) 59 16 (MED) Pore is the caste and ryght suche is the chaunce; ffor though ye serve yeres ful a bale, Youre trouthe shal no thynge yow forwarde auaunce..Explicit the Chaunce of the Dyse.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 120 Explicit the weddyng of kyng Arthur.

a1500 in D. W. Singer Catal. Lat. & Vernacular Alchemical MSS (1931) II. 670 (MED) How that the elixer shulde be made of wyne..Explicit the verry trewe Elixer of wyne provide by John Corbett.

a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 12 Explysyth peers of fulham.

c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 314 (notes to Ashmole version) Expliceth, quoth Rychard Sheale.

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单词	explicit
释义	explicitn.² Brit. /ˈɛksplᵻsɪt/, U.S. /ˈɛksplᵻˌsɪt/ Forms: 1600s explicite, 1800s– explicit. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin explicit. Etymology: < post-classical Latin explicit (see explicit v.¹). In sense 2 after French explicit (1838). 1. A declaration that something is finished; a conclusion. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > postface or conclusion envoyc1398 extraduction1533 epilogue1564 heel1608 explicit1660 post-face1742 afterword1890 1660 Against Sleep in J. Cleaveland Revived (ed. 2) 22 Sleep..Reason's Assassine, Fancies Bayl; The Senses Curfew..Joys Explicit, unfathom'd Gulf of Time. 1885 A. Dobson At Sign of Lyre 45 Tired the hand and tired the wit Ere the final Explicit! 1932 E. Blunden Face of Eng. 81 The last man..came..to provide the explicit. 2. Originally: an instance of the use of explicit as an indication of the end of a book or a section of one. Now usually: the closing words of a manuscript, early printed book, or chanted liturgical text. Cf. incipit n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > epilogue, envoy, or conclusion parclosec1390 envoyc1398 conclusionc1405 l'envoy1430 subscriptionc1450 extraduction1533 epilogue1564 surclose1589 corollary1603 post-face1742 retroduction1786 explicit1849 snapper1857 1849 F. Madden tr. J. J. Champollion & A. Champollion Universal Palæogr. I. 338 The Explicit and Incipit, at the beginning and end of the Gospels, are written in tall, elegant Roman capitals. 1865 Archæol. Jrnl. 22 58 The contents of the first class are shown in the Explicit, which is as follows:—‘Explicit modus omnium cartarum, convencionum, cirographorum, obligacionum.’ 1897 Dublin Rev. Oct. 473 The contents of each volume are fully given, for the most part with incipits and explicits. 1903 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 4 145 The second supplies incipits and explicits of the lessons, which are not given in the Bergamo book, from a twelfth-century MS in the library of the Prefect of the Ceremonies at Milan. 1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Feb. 143/4 Appendices listing all the explicits and incipits. 2013 A. Bahr Fragments & Assemblages 213 The link between the Cinkante Balades and ‘Ecce pater tensus’, by contrast, is a brief explicit: ‘Expliciunt carmina Iohannis Gower, que Gallice composita Balades dicuntur’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). explicitadj.n.¹ Brit. /ᵻkˈsplɪsɪt/, /ɛkˈsplɪsɪt/, U.S. /ᵻkˈsplɪsᵻt/, /ɛkˈsplɪsᵻt/ Forms: 1500s–1600s explicite, 1600s– explicit. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French explicite; Latin explicitus, explicāre. Etymology: < (i) Middle French explicite clear, definite (1488, originally in specific theological use in foy explicite explicit faith), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin explicitus free from difficulties, in post-classical Latin also clear (5th cent. in Augustine; from 13th cent. in specific theological use in fides explicita ), (of a declaration or utterance) express (1511 in the passage translated in quot. 1549 at sense A. 2a, or earlier), use as adjective of past participle of explicāre explicate v. Compare Spanish explícito (early 15th cent. in explícitamente , adverb), Portuguese explícito (15th cent. in explícitamente , adverb), Italian esplicito (a1342), all earliest in sense ‘clear, definite’. Compare implicit adj.Classical Latin explicāre has two forms of the past participle, explicātus and explicitus . The former is regular in early Latin, but tends to be replaced by the latter after the time of Cicero. Both forms are widely used in post-classical Latin, although the form explicitus is more common in the medieval period. Use in sense A. 4 apparently reflects awareness of the relatedness of this word and explicate v. (compare the sense ‘to level out, smooth’ of classical Latin explicāre ). With the specific use in mathematics (see sense A. 5) compare the corresponding uses of post-classical Latin explicitus (1761 or earlier) and French explicite (1796 or earlier). A. adj. 1. a. Theology. explicit faith, explicit belief: the acceptance of a doctrine with distinct apprehension of all that is logically involved in it. Opposed to implicit faith at implicit adj. 3a. ΚΠ 1546 G. Joye Refut. Byshop Winchesters Derke Declar. f. lvii^v It is neither your acquisite ne your formed ne vnformed faith.., neither your explicite ne implicite faith, neither your fained ne deade faith. 1598 T. Stoughton Gen. Treat. against Poperie 276 In the law of nature that explicite faith was sufficient, which might be had in the naturall vnderstanding with out any bookes. 1605 R. Smith Answer to T. Bels Challeng vii. i. 284 Though they [sc. traditions] be not such, as the actual and explicite beleefe of them be so necessarie, as none whatsoeuer can be saued without it. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 119 Every man is bound to have a personall explicite Faith of his own. 1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon ii. 85 The explicite beliefe of them is no necessary part of Christian communion. 1707 G. Keith Necessity of Faith 12 Cornelius and his Friends, had not the Explicit Faith that Jesus was the Christ, until it was Preached unto him by St. Peter. 1788 tr. I. Mouradgea d'Ohsson Oriental Antiq. 117 By the faith here alluded to, is meant an explicit and formal belief of the dogmas, which is considered as absolutely necessary to salvation. 1846 Brownson's Q. Rev. Jan. 36 From these and many other texts which might be adduced, it is evident that explicit faith in the principal or primary doctrine is necessary as the medium of salvation. 1880 R. F. Littledale Plain Reasons xxv. 73 Implicit belief in the Pope is not sufficient; that must be explicit. 1909 G. Tyrrell Christianity at Cross-roads 18 The distinction just mentioned between implicit and explicit belief; between the cloak folded and the cloak outspread. 1936 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Texas) No. 24. 252 Explicit faith, the opposite of implicit, involved assent only when reason clearly perceived the nature of the doctrine or mystery. 2011 I. Levy Let. to Galatians 76 The patriarchs were certainly holy..but they did not possess an ‘explicit faith’ as did the people of the New Testament, to whom the truth was openly revealed through Christ. b. Of knowledge, an idea, etc.: developed in detail; (hence) clear, definite, plain. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > evident certainty > [adjective] witterc1175 apert1340 clearc1380 plainc1395 apparentc1400 demonstrablea1425 demonstrate1509 sensible?1531 explicit1623 apodicticala1638 demonstrated1646 apodictic1652 flat1665 decided1757 distinct1828 1623 H. Rogers Answer to Mr. Fisher 10 What you meane by learne? whether an actuall explicite knowledge, or an habituall only implicite knowledge? 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. ii. 11 The Understanding hath an implicit Knowledge of these Principles, but not an explicit, before this first hearing. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 379 How impossible it is for us, to have a clear, and Explicit Notion of that which is infinite. 1721 R. Manning Case stated Church of Rome II. 344 Otherwise whoever has not an explicit knowledge of all Truths whatsoever contain'd in the whole Bible, cannot be said to have an entire Faith, which is absurd. 1799 W. Jones Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 2) II. App. 567 These telescopes are made by us of various lengths and diameters, the annexed table will give the reader a more explicit idea of their dimensions, power, &c. 1849 R. M. Martin Railways, Past, Present & Prospective 81 The Great Western, South Western, Midland, and other Railways, also profited by the more explicit knowledge of the state of their affairs. 1899 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 1898 15 604 I should like very much to ask the gentleman..to give us a somewhat more explicit idea as to what he means when he says that [etc.]. 1925 J. M. Murry Keats & Shakespeare (1958) ii. 22 We shall fall into the error of imagining that poetry which contains the greatest amount of explicit and recognizable thought is the profoundest poetry. 1979 E. Jennings in PN Rev. No. 12. 35/1 But in the large flights of imagination I see for one crammed second, order so Explicit that I need no more persuasion. 2001 Yoga Jrnl. Sept. 107/2 In more primitive cultures people lacked explicit knowledge of the intricate biological processes we're now beginning to describe. 2. a. Of a declaration, indication, utterance, etc.: distinctly expressing all that is meant; leaving nothing merely implied or suggested; express. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [adjective] explicit1549 expressible1605 effable1637 evolveda1641 describable1655 disimplicated1753 enunciable1825 talkable1830 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] > explicit expressc1386 enunciative1531 explicate1532 expressed1534 explicit1549 unimplicit1673 explained1685 implicit1727 disimplicated1753 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Liv^v Thei are hedged in on all sides, with suche a gard of Magistral diffinicions, conclusions, corollaries, explicite and implicite proposicions [L. propositionum explicitarum et implicitarum]. 1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Explicite, made manifest, vnfolded. 1642 J. March Argument Militia 26 Every Oath..ought..[to be] explicite, I mean, without implications, or etcetera's. 1654 O. Cromwell Speech 12 Sept. There was an explicit consent and an implicit consent. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. v. 73 What their [the angels'] sin was is not explicit. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. vii. 62 The Landgrave..wrote to Granvelle..begging an explicit declaration of what they had to fear or to hope. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xi. §42 If a poor man who is ready to die with hunger steal a loaf of bread, it is a less explicit sign of depravity than [etc.]. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 201 Promises more explicit had been held out to him of forgiveness. 1880 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 255 235 The Amendment of the hon. Member made it explicit that the instructions must be given by some person having superintendence. 1932 E. Waugh Black Mischief v. 182 His Majesty's ordnance seemed perfectly explicit to me. 1982 I. Asimov Foundation's Edge (1983) v. 70 The only official prerogative of the First Speaker was that which was explicit in his title—he always spoke first. 2002 Trames 6 241 To all laws or drafts, an explicit declaration was added..that the voter shall vote himself or herself. †b. Of a plot: free from intricacies; simple. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes Pref. 5 That commonly call'd the Plot, whether intricate or explicit. 3. a. Of a person or his or her qualities: stating fully all that is meant; definite and unreserved in expression; (also) outspoken. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > [adjective] > stating explicitly (of persons) expressa1593 explicita1624 a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xix. 311 That Imperial authoritie, which Kings and Emperours have either given to that Nicene Canon, or which they in more explicite manner shall impart unto the Primates or Bishops in their Kingdomes. 1673 J. Flavel Fountain of Life Opened viii. 86 But to be more explicite, and clear; I shall In the next place enquire, what it implys and carries in it. 1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. vii. 134 How explicit they are with themselves, is another Question. 1756 P. Pott Treat. Ruptures Pref. p. xxvii To express myself..in as plain, explicit and intelligible manner as I am capable. 1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxvi. 59 The explicit firmness and decision of a King. 1828 New Jerusalem Mag. Dec. 119 He is explicit in stating that he saw and heard them in the spiritual world. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Biogr. (1867) 180 No man who is at the head of affairs always wishes to be explicit. 1906 J. Macgowan Imperial Hist. China (ed. 2) xxx. 472 He was explicit in his statement that they had all agreed to murder the Emperor when he went out in spring to perform the royal ceremony of ploughing. 1930 N. Coward Private Lives ii. 51 Elyot. Please try to be more explicit. Amanda. You know perfectly well what I mean. 2005 CIO 1 Nov. 36/2 Do this by getting them to be more explicit and specific about what they want you to do, and then say back to them. b. Directly describing or representing sexual activity. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [adjective] > sexually explicit or sensational adults-only1916 explicit1925 sexational1928 adult1943 1925 Life 28 Jan. 18/2 Its bits of explicit sex conversation (and pretty explicit they are, too, even to old men-of-the-world like the staff of this department) somehow ring true enough to make them no giggling matter. 1964 Times 23 Apr. 15/3 The justification of the film's very explicit sex-scenes. 1972 R. Michael et al. ABZ of Pornogr. 39 His films are not explicit—no genitals for instance—and they are often intentionally droll and whimsical. 1977 Washington Post 21 Sept. b6/3 Juveniles are not mature enough to cope with the often provocative and explicit material of sex magazines. 1985 Billboard 21 Sept. 72/4 Weiss had suggested..that ‘peer pressure’ from other songwriters might ‘embarrass’ the writers of explicit lyrics and cause them to ‘shape up’. 2014 Times (Nexis) 3 Sept. 11 The FBI has opened an investigation into the theft of hundreds of explicit photos and videos from the private online accounts of female celebrities. †4. Of the brow: free from folds or wrinkles; smooth. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [adjective] > without wrinkles or folds unfrizzled1611 unrumpleda1643 explicit1697 unpuckered1775 unrimpled1775 wrinkleless1793 foldless1845 creaseless1852 uncrumpled1854 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata ix. 296 The chearful Forehead is explicit and smooth. 5. Mathematics. Designating a mathematical expression in which the relationship between dependent and independent variables is expressed explicitly. Chiefly in explicit function. Contrasted with implicit function at implicit adj. 2a.The function y = x + 1 is an example of an explicit function. For comparison, the equation of the unit circle, x² + y² = 1, is not explicit—in this case the expressed relationship is one between the squares of each variable. ΚΠ 1814 P. Barlow New Math. & Philos. Dict. sig. X7 Having given the methods..of obtaining the derived functions, of functions of one or more quantities, whether those functions be explicit or implicit,..we will now show how this theory may be applied. 1870 W. G. Peck Pract. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus i. v. 50 When these equations are solved the implicit function becomes explicit. 1910 E. J. Townsend & G. A. Goodenough Essentials Calculus ii. 40 In the form in which the function is here written it is also an explicit function of x. 1955 D. A. Quadling Math. Anal. xiii. 223 There is no hard and fast distinction between implicit and explicit functions. 2008 J. Stewart Single Variable Calculus : Early Transcendentals (ed. 6) iii. 207 In some cases it is possible to solve such an equation for y as an explicit function..of x. 6. Chemistry. Of or relating to a model (esp. of solvation) in which the behaviour of the individual components of a substance or structure being studied is taken into account, typically in order to study local interactions between these and another element of the system or process being modelled; (also) designating such a model. ΚΠ 1976 J. L. Burch et al. in Environmental Effects Molecular Struct. & Properties 24 It is desirable to include a substantial number of explicit solvent molecules within the microscopic sphere, so that a reasonable description of microscopic interactions can be obtained. 1987 J. A. McCammon & S. C. Harvey Dynamics of Proteins & Nucleic Acids (1988) v. 105 The inclusion of explicit solvent has been shown to improve the agreement with experiment. 1995 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92 10927/2 The results of the latter study are in good agreement with the results obtained here with an explicit solvation model. 2005 Jrnl. Computational Chem. 26 1369/1 In cases where the simulation method used and available computation time allow the inclusion of explicit water, this is preferable to a continuum description of the solvent. 2007 Ann. Rep. Computational Chem. 3 220 An explicit membrane formed by 52 molecules of diauroylphophatidylcholine. B. n.¹ Something which is or has been made explicit; an explicit doctrine, idea, expression, etc. Also with the and plural agreement: explicit things collectively. Often contrasted with implicit n.¹ Additions. ΚΠ 1641 F. Rous Catholick Charitie iii. 229 Transubstantiation is an Article of their new faith, and not usually reckoned among their explicites. 1679 R. Baxter Which is True Church? iii. 152 But perhaps he spake distributively of two sorts of Faith, viz. both the Implicite and the Explicite. 1808 J. Grant Inst. Lat. Gram. 326 The explicit is when the noun is expressed, to which the verb or adjective refers. 1907 A. E. Waite Steps to Crown iv. 205 The Church is a secret order constituted according to the explicits of its own consciousness as a Mystery in three degrees—militant, suffering and glorious. 1999 H. M. Roisman Nothing is as it Seems iv. 97 The tension between the implicit and the explicit is the major source of the play's propelling force. 2014 S. Strauss & P. Feiz Disc. Anal. p. vii The multivariate ways in which we express..ideas..: both the said and the unsaid; the explicit and the implicit; the word, the gesture, or both. Compounds explicit definition n. chiefly Logic and Philosophy a definition which formally sets out the meaning of a concept or expression, as by specifying necessary and sufficient conditions for its applicability; a statement to the effect that the expression being defined has the same meaning as another expression which defines it; a definition which can be substituted for the defined expression in sentences in which that expression occurs.In technical contexts of mathematics, logic, etc., often contrasted with implicit definition. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [noun] > definition description1574 definition1645 explicit definition1853 definiens1871 1853 Bibliotheca Sacra Jan. 25 He [sc. Socrates] resorted continually to explicit definitions, which he required his pupils to express at the outset in the best way they could, and, in the progress of the discussion,..to narrow or widen the compass of the definitions, till they answered all the demands of the subject, till they expressed the thing, the whole thing, and nothing but the thing. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. iii. 39 The full and explicit definition of Logic, therefore, is,—the science of the Laws of Thought as Thought; or, the science of the Laws of the Form of Thought; or, the science of the Formal Laws of Thought:—these being only three various expressions of what is really the same. 1936 A. J. Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic iii. 67 The vast majority of the definitions..in ordinary discourse are explicit definitions... Thus,..in the English language, the two symbols ‘oculist’ and ‘eye-doctor’ are synonymous. 1958 A. Pap Semantics & Necessary Truth I. ii. 40 Difficulties of this sort..presumably led mathematicians such as Hilbert to abandon the quest for explicit definitions of the terms ‘straight line’, ‘point’, ‘plane’, and instead to define them implicitly as whatever entities satisfy the formal axioms formulated by means of them. 2001 L. Udehn Methodological Individualism (2002) vi. 173 Carnap understands ‘explicit definition’ in a broad sense... An explicit definition is such that all statements about the object (or concept) defined (definiendum) can be eliminated and replaced by statements about the elements in terms of which it is defined (definiens). explicit memory n. Psychology (originally) conscious recollection of events and facts; (in later use) spec. the type of memory that is exhibited when performance on a task is facilitated by conscious recollection of previous experiences; (also) a memory of this kind.Contrasted with implicit memory. ΚΠ 1886 C. Creighton Illustr. Unconscious Memory in Dis. i. 15 Generation is implicit memory, consciousness is explicit memory. 1923 Mind 32 280 The sense of familiarity is distinct from explicit memory and yet entirely undeniable. 1985 P. Graf & D. L. Schachter in Jrnl. Exper. Psychol.: Learning, Memory, & Cognition 11 501/2 A variety of terms has been used to distinguish between the type of memory that is tapped by priming tests on the one hand, and by recall and recognition tests on the other hand... For descriptive purposes, we use the terms implicit memory and explicit memory to distinguish between these forms of memory. 2000 Current Direct. Psychol. Sci. 9 56/2 Young children do form certain kinds of explicit memories easily. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † explicitv.¹ Forms: Middle English explysyth, Middle English–1500s explicit, 1500s expliceth. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin explicit. Etymology: < post-classical Latin explicit (5th cent. or earlier) < explic. , scribal abbreviation of explicitus est , 3rd person singular perfect passive of classical Latin explicāre to unfold, to unroll, to complete a text (see explicate v., and compare etymological note at explicit adj.) + -it , 3rd person singular present active ending, after implicit (see implicit adj. and see further discussion below). Compare post-classical Latin expliciunt (from 8th cent. in British sources) and similar forms (for which see e.g. B. Bischoff Latin Palaeography (1990) 44). Compare the forms explysyth and expliceth, which show similar remodelling after Middle English and early modern English -th, 3rd person singular present ending. Compare Middle French explicit (first half of the 14th cent.).Classical Latin explicāre is used of the completion of texts by Martial ( Epigrams 14.4.2, versibus explicitum omne est duobus opus ‘Every piece is completed in two lines’) and Sidonius ( Letters 8.1.1, opus..explicitum ‘the completed work’). The earliest manuscripts in which the verb is used by a scribe to mark the completion of a text or section of a text are of the 5th century, and in these, not only is it always abbreviated, to explic., expl., or exp., but moreover, the abbreviation is already coming to be expanded to explicit under the influence of implicit, which follows it immediately in statements that one part of a work ends and another begins. So, for instance, in the 5th-century Codex Mediceus of Virgil, Book 6 of the Aeneid is followed by the inscription Aeneidos lib. vi. explic. Inc. lib. vii ‘Book 6 of the Aeneid ends and Book 7 begins’, but the Eclogues are followed by the inscription Bucolicon liber explicit incipit Georgicon lib. i ‘The book of Eclogues ends and the first book of Georgics begins’. The 6th-century Codex Florentinus of the Pandects of Justinian likewise has the abbreviations explic. and expl. and the form explicit, but never explicitus est (early printed editions, however, inserted this form in texts purporting to reproduce this manuscript, and it appears on their authority in the Thesaurus linguae latinae, at explico, sense VI. A. 1). As early as the beginning of the 5th century, St Jerome remarks ( Epistles 28.4, CSEL 54.229) that nos solemus conpletis opusculis..interponere ‘explicuit’ [variant reading: 'explicit']..aut aliquid istiusmodi ‘We are accustomed to insert “explicit”..or something of that kind into completed works’. The form explicitus est appears sporadically in the colophons of later manuscripts, e.g. the 10th-century Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia Cod. 76, fo. 159v, explicitus est liber ethimologiarum. Obsolete. Only as 3rd singular present. intransitive. Used by an author or scribe in indicating the end of a book, or of one of the separate pieces contained in a manuscript: ‘(here) ends’.In quot. c1560: ‘it ends here, this is the end’. ΚΠ c1350 in London Mediaeval Stud. (1951) 2 45 (MED) Wyt an on and an I wytouten eny wyr I may noust wyne and þriue al in a ȝere; Explicit ȝeddyngus de Prust papelard. c1450 in Englische Studien (1925) 59 16 (MED) Pore is the caste and ryght suche is the chaunce; ffor though ye serve yeres ful a bale, Youre trouthe shal no thynge yow forwarde auaunce..Explicit the Chaunce of the Dyse. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 120 Explicit the weddyng of kyng Arthur. a1500 in D. W. Singer Catal. Lat. & Vernacular Alchemical MSS (1931) II. 670 (MED) How that the elixer shulde be made of wyne..Explicit the verry trewe Elixer of wyne provide by John Corbett. a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 12 Explysyth peers of fulham. c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 314 (notes to Ashmole version) Expliceth, quoth Rychard Sheale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † explicitv.² Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin explicit-, explicāre. Etymology: < classical Latin explicit-, past participial stem of explicāre explicate v.Compare etymological note at explicit adj. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To cause (a flower or leaf) to open from the bud. Cf. explicate v. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > be a leaf [verb (intransitive)] > unfold or open out explicit1657 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Mmmm^v Leaves of red Roses perfectly explicited [L. explicatis]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.²1660adj.n.¹1546v.¹c1350v.²1657
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