Expiscate

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Expiscate \Ex*pis"cate\, v. t. [L. expiscatus, p. p. of
     expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish.]
     To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation;
     to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] --Nichol.
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           Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to
           expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. --W.
                                                    L. Alexander.
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