Meanings
adjectiveexpiscatory (not comparable)
- archaicnot comparableTending to fish out (information); searching, or fact-finding
Now, by innumerable confrontations and expiscatory questions, through entanglements, doublings and windings that fatigue eye and soul, this most involute of Lies is finally winded off […]
1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Diamond Necklace”, in Fraser's Magazine
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