a. [f. prec. + -Y.] That elucidates, or tends to elucidate. Const. of.
1775. Wm. Hutchinson (title), The Spirit of Masonry in Moral and Elucidatory Lectures.
1814. Q. Rev., XI. 74. These various letters are any thing but elucidatory.
1861. Craik, Hist. Eng. Lit., I. 588. His works … are … not simply demonstrative or elucidatory of mere matters of fact.
