Usage examples (34)

• Verb (used without object), : to expatiate upon a theme
• He merely cites one passage — no more, no less — and declares the book dead, without even casual expatiation.
• Since July 1, 1898, expatiation on the cowardice and lack of skill of the Spanish soldier has ceased to be a profitable literary occupation.
• So I recall this: the story of the violin music being told and Granddad plunging into the midst of the tale with an expatiation on Paganini.