'Expiscate' definitions:
Definition of 'Expiscate'
From: GCIDE
- Expiscate \Ex*pis"cate\, v. t. [L. expiscatus, p. p. of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish.] To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] --Nichol. [1913 Webster]
- Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. --W. L. Alexander. [1913 Webster]