Word Meanings - ILLUSTRATIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.

ILLUSTRATION
1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
ELUCIDATION
A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.