Crossword-Solution: EXPISCATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Expiscate | v. t. | To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| find; fish out | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXPISCATE (3)
CHAPTER XLVI--THE NEW COUNCILLORS Mr Peevie was not a little proud of the part he had played in the storm of the council, and his words grew, if possible, longer-nebbit and more kittle than before, in so much that the same evening, when I called on him after dusk, by way of a device to get him to help the implementing of my intents with regard to the choice of two gentlemen to succeed those whom he called "the expurgated dislocators," it was with a great difficulty that I could expiscate his meaning.
Nothing but a dreary existence is now before me, and--but, by Jupiter, there goes the starting bell!" Tom vanished, like Aubrey's apparition, with a melodious twang, and a perceptible odour of tar; and so, being determined to expiscate the matter, I proceeded towards the Broomielaw, and in due time became master of the locality of the Cat and Bagpipes.
James determines to expiscate the matter in person; and accordingly, in the next scene, we are transported to a wood near Laichmont, where Madeleine Weir, the grandchild of the knight, and Malcolm Young, her cousin, are apparently bird-nesting, but in reality, though they know it not, making love.