About The Word Expatiate
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Expatiate
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What's The Definition Of Expatiate?
[v] add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Expatiate: dilate | elaborate | enlarge | expand | exposit | expound | flesh out | lucubrate Related Terms | Find terms related to Expatiate: amplify | descant | detail | develop | dilate | discuss | dissert | dissertate | elaborate | enlarge | enlarge upon | evolve | expand | explicate | narrate | particularize | ramble | recite | recount | rehearse | rehearse in extenso | relate | relate at large | sermonize | unfold | work out See Also | clarify | clear up | detail | elucidate | exemplify | illustrate | instance | particularise | particularize | set forth | specialise | specialize | specify Expatiate In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*pa"ti*ate\, v. 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\, v. t. To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden. Afford art an ample field in which to expatiate itself. --Dryden. |
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