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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