expatiate
[ik-spey-shee-eyt]
verb (used without object), ex·pa·ti·at·ed, ex·pa·ti·at·ing.
to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion: to expatiate upon a theme.
Archaic. to move or wander about intellectually, imaginatively, etc., without restraint.
Origin of expatiate
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But why expatiate to a stranger on sorrow which must be secret?
Vivian GreyEarl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
It is needless to expatiate on its poetic merit or felicity of diction.
My ReminiscencesRabindranath Tagore
But I and my chimney must explain; and as we are both rather obese, we may have to expatiate.
I and My ChimneyHerman Melville
It is useless to expatiate on a code of morals that seems to us positively Japanese.
RaleighEdmund Gosse
It cannot be necessary to expatiate at all upon the nature of the offence.
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane,William Brodie Gurney
expatiate
verb (intr)
Word Origin for expatiate
C16: from Latin exspatiārī to digress, from spatiārī to walk about
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