expatiating
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]expatiating
- present participle and gerund of expatiate
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 167:
- Surely the time passed in expatiating on the reverend Doctor's faults was rather profitably passed than otherwise.
Noun
[edit]expatiating (plural expatiatings)
- expatiation
- 1837, Charles Frederick Partington, The British Cyclopæedia of Natural History:
- […] we can scarcely open, a book in which the habits and manners of animals are treated of, without meeting with numerous, fervent, and eloquent expatiatings on their sagacity […]