dilucid

From Latin dilucidus, from dilucere (“to be light enough to tell objects apart”). See lucid.

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈl(j)uːsɪd/, /dɪˈl(j)uːsɪd/

dilucid (comparative more dilucid, superlative most dilucid)

1. (obsolete) clear or lucid
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:

     an ambiguous, or not so perspicuous and dilucide description of Lawes

• dilucidation
• dilucidity
• dilucidly

• “dilucid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.