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Definition of Expatiate
1. Verb. Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing. "They expatiate that there was a traffic accident "; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
Generic synonyms: Clarify, Clear Up, Elucidate
Specialized synonyms: Detail, Exposit, Expound, Set Forth, Exemplify, Illustrate, Instance, Particularise, Particularize, Specialise, Specialize, Specify
Derivative terms: Dilation, Elaboration, Elaboration, Enlargement, Expansion, Expansion, Expatiation, Exposition, Exponent, Expository, Expounding, Lucubration
Antonyms: Contract
Definition of Expatiate
1. v. i. To range at large, or without restraint.
2. v. t. To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
Definition of Expatiate
1. Verb. (context: now rare) To range at large, or without restraint. ¹
2. Verb. To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant. ¹
3. Verb. (obsolete) To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expatiate
1. [v EXPATIATED, EXPATIATING, EXPATIATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expatiate
Literary usage of Expatiate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated by John Colin Dunlop (1842)
"... could heap together in their repositories, the authors, conformably to this
taste, expatiate with peculiar delight in the description of magnificence, ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1812)
"To these, others less important might be added; these, liow- ever, are the
principal, and ou some of these it may be well to expatiate. ..."
3. A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1824)
"In fact, those men who want to compel every appearance and every irregularity in
nature into our service, and expatiate on their benefits, combat that very ..."
4. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"... expatiate in the skies H'./•". 254 Where Peace descending Л her olives spring
WF 429 Your praise the b. shall chant in ev'ry grove Su. ..."
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