{{Short description|Last lines of a written work}} thumb|right|A Latin explicit that uses the word "explicit" The '''explicit''' (from {{langx|la|explicitus est}}; {{lit|it is unrolled}}, as applied to scrolls) of a text or document is either a final note indicating the end of the text and often including information about its place, date and authorship; or the final few words of the text itself. In the first case, it is similar to a colophon but always appearing at the end of the text. In the second case, it corresponds to the incipit, the first few words of a text.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199576128.001.0001/acref-9780199576128-e-0391 | isbn=978-0-19-957612-8 | title=A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000 | chapter=Explicit | year=2008 | publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref> The end is also referred to as ''desinit'', "it is finished".
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