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Meaning of expiscate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out or rummage (for information)

archaic, formal, transitive

Examples

“Mathematics may be separated into two divisions, one of which expiscates principles or methods, and the other rules or applications.”
“as if every man had to expiscate for himself from the beginning a system of religious belief”
“November 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, Chapter XXXIV I am in a fair way to expiscate my family history”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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