expiscatory

English

Adjective

expiscatory (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Tending to fish out (information); searching, or fact-finding
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “The Diamond Necklace”, in Fraser's Magazine:
      Now, by innumerable confrontations and expiscatory questions, through entanglements, doublings and windings that fatigue eye and soul, this most involute of Lies is finally winded off […]

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