ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Expiscatory

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Expiscatory is an adjective meaning (archaic) Tending to fish out (information); searching, or fact-finding.

Meaning

(archaic) Tending to fish out (information); searching, or fact-finding.

Example Sentences

Now, by innumerable confrontations and expiscatory questions, through entanglements, doublings and windings that fatigue eye and soul, this most involute of Lies is finally winded off […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include expurgatorial, indagative, expurgatory, emissitious, extraforaneous, excrementive.

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