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To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." "Dr.Burton has with much ingenuity endeavord to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them." (W. L. Alexander)
Origin: L. Expiscatus, p.p. Of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish.
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