Oxford English and Spanish Dictionary, Synonyms, and Spanish to English Translator

Meaning of explicatory in English:

‘Only from reading the explicatory reviews did I find out.’

‘Its images tend to generate multiple interpretations - and do so without an accompanying sense of explicatory adequacy or closure.’
‘Written in a clear, easy-to-follow style, the book is well researched, as is evident in the copious explicatory notes, at the end of the book, for each chapter.’
‘How does a museum ‘do’ imperial economics or the impact of English-style laws without drowning the visitor in documents and explicatory text?’
‘Prefacing involves an explicatory introduction to a reading of a work.’