expiscate

== English == === Etymology === From Latin expiscatus, past participle of expiscari (“to fish out”), from ex (“out”) + piscari (“to fish”), piscis (“fish”). === Verb === expiscate (third-person singular simple present expiscates, present participle expiscating, simple past and past participle expiscated) (transitive, formal, archaic) To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out or rummage (for information) November 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, Chapter XXXIV I am in a fair way to expiscate my family history ==== Related terms ==== expiscation expiscatory === References === “expiscate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Latin == === Participle === expiscāte vocative masculine singular of expiscātus