- Expiscate
- Expiscate Ex*pis"cate, v. t. [L. expiscatus, p. p. of
expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish.]
To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation;
to search out. ``To expiscate principles.'' [R.] --Nichol.
[1913 Webster]
Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. --W. L. Alexander. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
