| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Expatiate.[Websters]
2. To have roved, meandered, strayed or divagated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have roamed, ambled or sauntered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have talked, prattled, addressed, narrated or recounted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have amplified or stretched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have expounded or argued. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have blabbed or conversed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb expatiate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (expatiate) | 1. Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing.[Wordnet]. 2. To range at large, or without restraint.[Websters]. 3. To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant.[Websters]. 4. To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: expatiating, expatiated, expatiates, expatiater, expatiaters, expatiatingly and expatiatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "EXPATIATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Specialty Definition: expatiate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To open at large; to rove without prescribed limits; to wander in space without restraint. He bids his soul expatiate in the skies. Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (now, rare) To range at large, or without restraint. (references) | 2: [Verb] (obsolete) To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden. (references) | 3: [Verb] To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant. 2007: “It can't fly,” he expatiated. “It can move forward only by hopping.” — Clive James, Cultural Amnesia (Picador 2007, p. 847). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
