| 释义 |
expiscate, v.|ɛkˈspɪskeɪt|
[f. L. expiscāt-, ppl. stem of expiscārī, f. ex- out + piscārī to fish, f. piscis fish.]
trans. To ‘fish out’; hence, to find out by scrutiny. Occas. with sentence as object.
Chiefly in Sc. writers; elsewhere usually humorously, with distinct reference to the etymology.
c1611Chapman Iliad x. 181 O friends, remains not one That will..mix..With their outguards, expiscating if the renown'd extreme They force on us will serve their turns? 1721Wodrow Hist. Suff. Ch. Scot. iii. vii. §3 This Method was fallen upon to expiscate Matter of Criminal Process. 1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. xii, I just propounded the project that I might expiscate some kind of satisfaction to my curiosity. 1831Wilson in Blackw. Mag. No. 180 To Corresp., Should we observe any farther impertinence on his part, we shall expiscate it. 1848H. Miller First Impr. xvii. (1857) 285 The evidence already expiscated on this point. 1864D. W. Thompson Day Dreams iv. (ed. 2) 38 Have they ever expiscated one intelligible reason?
¶ nonce-use. To exhaust of fish.
1858Sat. Rev. V. 569/1 Norway is nearly expiscated. |