explication

[ ek-spli-key-shuh n ]

/ ˌɛk splɪˈkeɪ ʃən /

the act of explicating.

an explanation; interpretation: He gave a brilliant explication of James Joyce's book.

Origin of explication

1520–30; < Middle French < Latin explicātiōn- (stem of explicātiō). See explicate, -ion

re·ex·pli·ca·tion, noun self-ex·pli·ca·tion, noun

“It was basically an explication of how reality TV slants reality,” says Robert King.

Inside ‘Good Wife’ Writers’ Room |Jace Lacob |September 22, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Kepler's Supposition not so probable: the explication of the Phnomena by another Hypothesis.

Micrographia |Robert Hooke
Hearne remarks that the explication of this word warranted by Sir E. Coke is "a wood grubbed up and turned to arable."

Notes and Queries, Issue No. 61, December 28, 1850 |Various
Paul's entire theology was nothing but the explication of his own conversion.

The Life of St. Paul |James Stalker

Which Explication I could easily prove, had I time; but this is not a fit place for it.

Micrographia |Robert Hooke
The phaenomenon may be real, though my explication be chimerical.

A Treatise of Human Nature |David Hume

explication

/ (ˌɛksplɪˈkeɪʃən) /

the act or process of explicating

analysis or interpretation, esp of a literary passage or work or philosophical doctrine

a comprehensive exposition or description