What is "explain"

Usage examples of "explain".

From the summit he was cast down headlong, and dashed in pieces on the pavement, in the presence of innumerable spectators, who filled the forum of Taurus, and admired the accomplishment of an old prediction, which was explained by this singular event.

That he was not warned first is in accord with the laws of divine providence already adduced, especially with the two explained at nn.

The creation of Eve out of the side of Adam was either meant by the author as an allegoric illustration that the love of husband and wife is the most powerful of social bonds, or as a pure myth seeking to explain the incomparable cleaving together of husband and wife by the entirely poetic supposition that the first woman was taken out of the first man, bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh.

So I spent the better part of Tuesday calling each on the phone, dropping by in person in the case of the nurse-practitioner, the allergy doctor, and our minister, to explain the situation and ask if I might give the GAL their names.

I have explained microscopes, to his fresh amazement that we ever built such instruments.

It might explain the odd connection between Ambrose and the mysterious Mr.

Especially when he explains that the downside of ambrosia is that it makes anyone who takes it extremely peaceful.

Alice finished her narration, Lydia took over, explaining what she and Ambry had learned during their visit to the Donnerjack Institute.

For the economic rationale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract from my hand published by the Fabian Society and entitled The Impossibilities of Anarchism, which explains why, owing to the physical constitution of our globe, society cannot effectively organize the production of its food, clothes and housing, nor distribute them fairly and economically on any anarchic plan: nay, that without concerting our social action to a much higher degree than we do at present we can never get rid of the wasteful and iniquitous welter of a little riches and a deal of poverty which current political humbug calls our prosperity and civilization.

If Tess could somehow reach King Edward and explain her convent plan, he would see the wisdom of her actions and annul this hasty marriage.

It would be difficult, if not impossible, to explain, and she was positively sure he would never just passively grant her an annulment by request.

But equally important, these press conferences gave all of us the opportunity to establish who the public health command team was and to explain to the public what anthrax is, what the relative risk of exposure is, what Cipro is and what its side effects are, how anthrax is treated, and what the difference is between nasal swabs that measure exposure and other tests that measure disease.

No longer protected by anthropocentric gods and goddesses, reason gone flat in its happy capacity to explain away the Mystery, not yet delivered into the hands of the superconsciouswe stare out blankly into that dark and gloomy night, which will very shortly swallow us up as surely as it once spat us forth.

Ressler explains: a bilingual molecule, with specific amino acid at one locus and corresponding anticodon at another.

I was a little vexed at everybody subsequently laughing at some joke which they did not explain, and it was only on going to bed I discovered I must have been walking about all the evening with an antimacassar on one button of my coat-tails.