expiscatoryadj.
/ɛkˈspɪskətəri/ rare.
Tending to expiscate or ‘fish out’.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > [adjective] > sounding out
expiscatory1829
fishing1831
1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 26 586 I was moved thereunto by an expiscatory curiosity.
1837 T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace xvi, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 184/1 By..expiscatory questions..this most involute of Lies is finally winded off.
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adj.1829- machine-knitting
- machine-like
- machine-made
- machine-maker
- machine-man
- machine-minder
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- machine-monger
- machine-mould
- machine-moulding
- machine-oriented
- machine-piano
- machine-pistol
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- machine-printed
- machine-printer
- machine-printing
- machine-processable
- machine-production
- machine-readable
- machine-riveting
- machine-ruled
- machine-ruler
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- machine-set