explicate

My homework is to explicate a poem.

It is an act of grace and higheſt honour that we duſt and aſhes are admitted to ſpeak to the Eternal God, to run to him as to a Father, to lay open our wants, to complain of our burdens, to explicate

Alternatively, there is the possibility of an extended narration composed of events that are not (wholly) explicated but are, nevertheless, possible and may even have taken place.

It took the length of a novella to fully explicate the theory in Toki Pona.

Philosophers often explicate complex ideas to reveal their underlying assumptions.

Tom began to explicate the symbolism of the painting to the curious audience.