eclaircise

To make clear; to clarify, to explain.

Verb

  1. To make clear; to clarify, to explain.
    • Passage O soul to India! / Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables. - 1870, Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, →OCLC,...

Origin

Back-formation from eclaircissement, borrowed from French éclaircissement.

Forms

eclaircises eclaircising eclaircised