expiscate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
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