expiscate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-pis-cate
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Meaning

verb

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out or rummage (for information)

Archaic; Formal; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Mathematics may be separated into two divisions, one of which expiscates principles or methods, and the other rules or applications."
"as if every man had to expiscate for himself from the beginning a system of religious belief"
"November 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, Chapter XXXIV I am in a fair way to expiscate my family history"

Etymology

From Latin expiscatus, past participle of expiscari (“to fish out”), from ex (“out”) + piscari (“to fish”), piscis (“fish”). By surface analysis, ex- + Latin pisc- + -ate.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: expiscatus

Usage

Inflected Forms

expiscates (present, singular) expiscating (participle, present) expiscated (participle, past) expiscated (past)

Frequently Paired Words

expiscation expiscatory