What is "explications"

Usage examples of "explications".

I was to report in mornings to come more heinous dreams (indeed, once I'd got the hang of interpretation I saw there was no wickedness my night-self didn't revel in, the grievouser the better, so that where several explications seemed plausible I chose without an eyeblink the flunkingest, as most in character, until Max pointed out to my distress that "

My explications of the plan, one by one in the evening, continue to go well.

For there is not one of them that begins his ratiocination from the Definitions, or Explications of the names they are to use.