expiscatory

English

Adjective

expiscatory (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Tending to fish out; searching.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Diamond Necklace”, in Fraser's Magazine:

     Now, by innumerable confrontations and expiscatory questions, through entanglements, doublings and windings that fatigue eye and soul, this most involute of Lies is finally winded off […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “expiscatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)