EXPATIATE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To range at large, or without restraint. Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies. Pope.

2.
v.

To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant. He expatiated on the inconveniences of trade. Addison.

3.
v.

To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden. Afford art an ample field in which to expatiate itself. Dryden.


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