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Verb (used without object), : to expatiate upon a theme. From Dictionary.com.
But this is not the place to expatiate upon the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference
Without wishing to expatiate upon its primary causes, the. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States] Reference
I desire to hear thee expatiate on this subject, O grandsire. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
He had to laugh at his own humour and expatiate on his own thrills. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
I knew with what intense relish he would expatiate on the wrong which. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
I have preferred to insist on a single point rather than to expatiate on. From Wordnik.com. [Parks for the People Proceedings of a Public Meeting held at Faneuil Hall, June 7, 1876] Reference
No need to expatiate on the incoherence of a poem formed of such elements. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
It cannot be necessary to expatiate at all upon the nature of the offence. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference
"You needn't do any quoting; I'll make prices and you expatiate on the goods.". From Wordnik.com. [A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road"] Reference
I need not expatiate upon the degradation or the misfortune of such a condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
Perhaps you can expatiate on his general physical well-being, how it's improved. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
French-Canadian expatiate upon the superiority of the wooden to the metal bridge. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference
I could expatiate on this subject, from what comes every day within my own knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.] Reference
It was suddenly cool to know stuff, to expatiate on the causes of the Spanish Civil War. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
In the East, imagination is at liberty to expatiate on past grandeur, wisdom, and politeness. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
Politicians on the left and right love to expatiate on the need to defend "traditional" marriage. From Wordnik.com. [John Ridley: Obama Wins. And So Does Fear, Hate and Prop 8] Reference
Irresponsible journalists loved to expatiate on it when they had no more spicy subject to handle. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
He cannot participate in that feeling of exaltation and mystery which has led many to expatiate upon. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
That is just one of the great points which the defenders of women's rights forget to expatiate upon. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
He has a friend, an ambassador, to recommend him to your notice, and to expatiate on his misfortunes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
It would do no good to expatiate on your ripe character and on your attainments in knowledge and virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Besides, it is certainly a most delicate matter to expatiate on the character of any individual or nation. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
To expatiate on the advantages of printing, at this time of day, would be "wasteful and ridiculous excess.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827] Reference
Being poor, I felt it necessary the next time I went to my darling to expatiate on that unfortunate drawback. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
They are endowed with reason and will; they are set at liberty, and permitted to expatiate over a wider field. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
In answer to his argument, we do not desire you to expatiate in praise of the ancients: their fame wants no addition. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference
Ministers have elaborated and will continue to expatiate on the implementation of these and other related programmes. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
To expatiate on the value of public faith may pass with some men for declamation -- to such men I have nothing to say. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Mr. Downes had been wont to expatiate to my mother on my taste for low company; but he must have had his own son in mind. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
His dogmatizing and theorizing expatiate not on the way he works in either art, but on the propriety of combining the two. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Bessie gave him a glance of astonished disapproval, and went on to expatiate on what would have been her own conduct in Deleah's place. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Rhode Island used to expatiate on the remarkable difference between the troops of France and those of England when quartered among them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
Jacobites, separate lives will hereafter be given in this work: it therefore becomes unnecessary any further to expatiate upon them here. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
The question will remain undecided for no one has as yet returned from the gastric cavity of the tiger to expatiate on the exquisite sensation. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
I guess they think it would just be "cool" if a woman were in the oval office and it would expatiate some of their sexist guilt at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton 'Advisor': Obama Is For People Who Want "Imaginary Hip Black Friend"] Reference
No doubt, Dr. Lakoff could expatiate more eloquently on the emotional and linguistic dynamics of the bullying narrative, but time is running out. From Wordnik.com. [David Fiderer: Obama's Campaign Doesn't Understand the Narrative of a Schoolyard Bully] Reference
There was nothing he liked better to expatiate upon, with that valuable proof of his own sincerity always at hand for reference and illustration. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
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