1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 383. This Sonnet, which might serue as an explaining to the other.
1656. H. Phillips, Purch. Patt. (1676), 175. The Table is so plain it needs no explaining.
1721. R. Bradley, Wks. Nat., 110. No more than the unfolding and explaining of their Parts one after another.
1740. Watts, Remnants of Time, § 21. I am quite tired and weary of these human explainings, so various and uncertain.