"elucidate the point" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to explain or clarify something in a way that makes it easier to understand. You can use it in any situation where you are trying to make your ideas or opinions clearer to someone else. Example: "Could you please elucidate the point you were making about the company's financial status? I'm having trouble understanding your analysis."
Macmillan likely knows that it doesn't quite work, because he doesn't stress or try to elucidate the point.
More research is warranted to elucidate the point of intervention of lutein along the apoptotic cascade.
To elucidate the point of departure of our understanding, we have made a summation of our collective pre-understanding and presumptions in this study (Table 1).
The positive result presented seemed not to be affected by this occurrence, and probably an in vivo experimentation in larger animal models could further elucidate the point.
However, given that the translocation of LPL to the surface of the endothelium requires multiple steps each with the potential for regulatory control of this process, we further investigated each step to elucidate the point(s) of control.
Although our study and others indicate that the health literacy skills reliant on fluid cognitive ability are sensitive to age-related decline, longitudinal evidence is needed to elucidate the point at which age-related cognitive decline begins to affect health literacy and, in turn, self-management of health.
To elucidate the points, we examined conduction properties of engineered tissues.
Early on Daumer elucidated the point that primary colors combine to create 'novel' colors visible to bees but not humans (Daumer, 1956; Daumer, 1958; see also Backhaus, 1991; Giurfa et al., 1995).
It is followed with a conceptual frame of remittances administration to elucidate the learning point for invigorating aid administration.
To elucidate the most sensitive point (= matrix) in the PCA subspace, we performed Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) based on the results of the grid search above.
To further elucidate this point, we examined the effects of TDZD-8 on the formation and growth of GL261-derived neurospheres (primary neurospheres).
