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Definition of Expatiated
1. expatiate [v] - See also: expatiate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expatiated
Literary usage of Expatiated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"He follows Stephen West in making God the cause of men's volitions, and of the
atonement to the character of God; Edward Dorr Griffin (qv) expatiated upon ..."
2. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers (1840)
"... and who are better pleased with less brilliant merit, all these ranged themselves
on Moreau's side, expatiated on his prudence, his consummate ability, ..."
3. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle: Annotated by Thomas Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"She looked very glad, and her eyes reddened when she said, "I canna show him my
gratitude, but I am grateful!" Then she expatiated on how well you and she ..."
4. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"He next expatiated on the committee of general safety, on the multitude of its
agents, on their cruelties, their rapine; he denounced Amar and Jagot as ..."
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