Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To search out; hence, to discover by subtle means or by strict examination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare, rare To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.
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- verb To
fish out ; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am in a fair way to expiscate my family history.
Vailima Letters 2005
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Tom vanished, like Aubrey's apparition, with a melodious twang, and a perceptible odour of tar; and so, being determined to expiscate the matter, I proceeded towards the Broomielaw, and in due time became master of the locality of the Cat and Bagpipes.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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He has no exculpatory witnesses; he has had no time to expiscate facts; the evidence for the prosecution is handed to him in court; and he can make only such observations as occur at the moment, knowing all the while that the prisoner's fate is already determined on.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
she commented on the word expiscate
To fish out.
July 17, 2008
mollusque commented on the word expiscate
Or deichthyofaunate.
July 17, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word expiscate
JM is testy about some expiscate instances.
May 9, 2011
qms commented on the word expiscate
Fish Story
The lads came back shockingly late
Unsteady in speech and in gait,
With a tale piscatory
Of ichthyic glory
The ladies will labor to expiscate.
November 19, 2014