explicational

comparative more explicational · superlative most explicational

1. Of or pertaining to explication; serving to explicate.

   The following are probably more the result of explicational activity than the basis for it.

   1950, George Arms, Joseph M[arshall] Kuntz, “Introduction”, in Poetry Explication: A Checklist of Interpretation since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and Present (Contemporary Critics), [Denver, Colo.]: Swallow Press; [New York, N.Y.]: William Morrow & Company, →OCLC, page 23

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   The relationship between the explicational and the punishment functions of rules is like the relation between the locomotive and the trains which it pulls. Attention can all to readily be diverted to the noisy, smoking locomotive in the vanguard, while the attached trains carrying the pay load are easily neglected.

   1954, Alvin W[ard] Gouldner, “About the Functions of Bureaucratic Rules”, in Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy, Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, →OCLC, part 4, page 171

   He is pressured to assert the Christian life experience against the surrounding world. To this end he uses the insufficient means of rabbinical teaching available to him. From this his explication of Christian life experience has its peculiar structure. Still, it is an orginal explication from the sense of the religious life itself. It can be further formed out in the primary religious experience. Theoretical contexts remain far [from this]; an explicational context is won, one that presents itself similarly to a theoretical explication.

   2004, Martin Heidegger, translated by Matthias Fritsch and Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferenci, “The Fundamental Posture of Paul [the Apostle]”, in The Phenomenology of Religious Life […] (Studies in Continental Thought), Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Phenemenological Explication of Concrete Religious Phenomena in Connection with the Letters of Paul), chapter 1 (Phenomenological Interpretation of the Letters to the Galatians), page 50