elucidative

comparative more elucidative · superlative most elucidative

1. Explanatory, clarifying; that serves to elucidate.

   In looking at this wreck of Governments in all European countries, there is one consideration that suggests itself, sadly elucidative of our modern epoch.

   1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, ch. 4 “The New Downing Street”

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   Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong.

   1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in Oliver Twist