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Webster 1913 Edition
Expatiate
Ex-pa′ti-ate
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Expatiated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Expariating
.] [L.
expatiatus
, exspatiatus
, p. p. of expatiari
, exspatiari
, to expatiate; ex
out + spatiari
to walk about spread out, fr. spatium
space. See Space
.] 1.
To range at large, or without restraint.
Bids his free soul
expatiate
in the skies. Pope.
2.
To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant.
He
expatiated
on the inconveniences of trade. Addison.
Ex-pa′ti-ate
,Verb.
T.
To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
Afford art an ample field in which to
expatiate
itself. Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Expatiate
EXPA'TIATE
,Verb.
I.
1.
To open at large; to rove without prescribed limits; to wander in space without restraint.He bids his soul expatiate in the skies.
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man.
2.
To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion. On important topics the orator thinks himself at liberty to expatiate.Definition 2024
expatiate
expatiate
English
Verb
expatiate (third-person singular simple present expatiates, present participle expatiating, simple past and past participle expatiated)
- (now rare) To range at large, or without restraint.
- Alexander Pope
- Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies.
- Alexander Pope
- To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 35
- Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here.
- Addison
- He expatiated on the inconveniences of trade.
- 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia (Picador 2007, p. 847)
- “It can't fly,” he expatiated. “It can move forward only by hopping.”
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 35
- (obsolete) To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
Translations
to write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant
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to range at large, or without restraint
obsolete: to expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden