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Webster 1913 Edition

Expiscate

Ex-pis′cate

,

Verb.

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.

Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to

expiscate

the truth which may be involved in them.

W. L. Alexander.