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expatiation|ɛkˌspeɪʃɪˈeɪʃən|
[f. prec. vb.: see -ation.]
The action of expatiating.
1. The action of walking abroad, or wandering at large; also, an instance of the same. lit. and fig. Also, opportunity or room for expatiating. rare.
1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. ii. xiii. 115 There are no other Errors, or manifest Expatiations in Heaven, save those of the seaven Planets. 1647A. Farindon Serm. Jas. i. 27. 2 Take them from the Devil's latitudes and expatiations. 1666G. Harvey Morb. Angl. iv. 35 Gladness..is an expansion, or an expatiation of the said sensitive spirits out of their cells into some larger Meatus. a1848R. W. Hamilton Rew. & Punishm. iv. (1853) 159 A proper self-love finds in religion a perfect expatiation.
†2. The action of extending, expanding, or developing; expansion, development. Cf. sense 3 of vb. Also concr. an extended portion, a projection. Obs.
1612J. Cotta Discov. Pract. Physic ii. ii. 94 The unlimited expatiation of so foule wrongs. 1652Bp. Hall Height Eloquence p. lii, A periphrasis very often winds up it self in its own expatiation. a1661Fuller Worthies, Surrey III. 76 Surrey..may be allowed to be a Square (besides its Angular Expatiation in the South-west) of two and twenty miles.
3. The action of discussing at large; extended talk or description.
1816Keatinge Trav. I. 277 The tact of the person who has thus had the discretion to turn away the bolt, is the theme of expatiation. 1831T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xv. (1887) 154 This tempting field of interesting expatiation. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 423 The reason is too apparent to need any expatiation. 1885Manch. Exam. 28 Jan. 3/4 The whole article is an example..of tamely edifying expatiation. |