Young expressed similar views during the 1844 deliberations of the council. (See Council of Fifty, “Record,” 5 and 11 Apr. 1844.)
“Explaterate” was an American English slang term meaning “to hold forth; explain in detail.” (Farmer and Henley, Slang and Its Analogues, 2:361.)
Farmer, John S., and W. E. Henley, eds. Slang and Its Analogues, Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and Comparative, of the Heterodox Speech of All Classes of Society for More Than Three Hundred Years. With Synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, Etc. 7 vols. [London], 1890–1904.