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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : ik-spey-shee-eyt |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈspeɪ ʃiˌeɪt |
Definition of expatiate
Origin :- 1530s, "walk about, roam freely," from Latin expatiatus/exspatiatus, past participle of expatiari/exspatiari "wander, digress," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + spatiari "to walk, spread out," from spatium (see space). Meaning "talk or write at length" is 1610s. Related: Expatiated; expatiating.
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- But why expatiate to a stranger on sorrow which must be secret?
- Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
- It is needless to expatiate on its poetic merit or felicity of diction.
- Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
- But I and my chimney must explain; and as we are both rather obese, we may have to expatiate.
- Extract from : « I and My Chimney » by Herman Melville
- It is useless to expatiate on a code of morals that seems to us positively Japanese.
- Extract from : « Raleigh » by Edmund Gosse
- It cannot be necessary to expatiate at all upon the nature of the offence.
- Extract from : « The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, » by William Brodie Gurney
- This, however, is a subject on which it is not our intention to expatiate here.
- Extract from : « The Emigrants Of Ahadarra » by William Carleton
- He then proceeded to expatiate on every sort of rustic enormity of which he accused Benjie.
- Extract from : « Red Gauntlet » by Sir Walter Scott
- What necessity was there to expatiate on her brother's drunkenness?
- Extract from : « Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician » by Frederick Niecks
- We cannot expatiate upon the scene; we can only muse and worship.
- Extract from : « Life and Times of David » by Charles Henry Mackintosh
- You should hear Charles expatiate on your cleverness as a business woman.
- Extract from : « Narcissus » by Evelyn Scott
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