Such elucidation would only be plausible if we understood the explicans more clearly than the explicandum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emotion] Reference

One theorist's Just One Of Those Things is another's challenging explicandum.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: CLUNKY COMPOUNDS.] Reference

Aurum nempe omnibus aliis precipitatur. metallis, excepto forfe Platino, quod ita explicandum exiftimo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torberni Bergman, ... sciagraphia regni mineralis: secundum principia proxima digesti] Reference

Quod generali conceptu enuntiatum paulo fufius explicandum eft; vt, oftenfo eo quod primùm à Vieta in inftituto fuo promouendo actum eft, quid pofteà ab authore noftro doctifiimo Thomâ Harrioto, qui ilium certamine ifto Analytico fequntus eft, praeftitum fit, meliùs innotefcere possit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Hariot]

Vtranue Affertio "HL&: IV. exp) icabitur, &: connrmabitur experimento Seftione iequeiifi aiferendo: ficutvfum Vue« complebimus in eadeni, inter explicandum viiim Humoris Cryftallini, niinus defefciScientemad conuenienrem im - preiTionem - repraientatiuorurn in Retina r fine adiumcnto Vueas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ...] Reference

Suppl p. 159. explicandum fitJDo -. mini Noftri?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm cvm observationibvs antiqvariis geographicis chronologicis historicis criticis et passim cvm explicatione monogrammatvm edidit Io. Christophorvs Rasche] Reference

"Dead" is the explicandum and "clinically dead" is the explicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophers' Playground] Reference