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expiscatory

expiscatory adjective: tending to fish out (information); searching, or fact-finding.

Adjective

expiscatory (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Tending to fish out (information); searching, or fact-finding
    • 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 […]1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Diamond Necklace”, in Fraser's Magazine

Questions about expiscatory

What does expiscatory mean?
Expiscatory means tending to fish out (information); searching, or fact-finding.
What part of speech is expiscatory?
Expiscatory is an adjective.

Words near expiscatory in the dictionary

  1. expiscating
  2. expiscation
  3. expiscations
  4. expiscator
  5. expiscators
  6. expiscatory
  7. explain
  8. explain away
  9. explain'd
  10. explainabilities
  11. explainability

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