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(transitive, formal, archaic) To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out or rummage (for information).
November 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, Chapter XXXIV I am in a fair way to expiscate my family history
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
Use expiscate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Expiscate means (transitive, formal, archaic) To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out or rummage (for information).
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November 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, Chapter XXXIV I am in a fair way to expiscate my family history
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