expatiative
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]expatiative (comparative more expatiative, superlative most expatiative)
- expatiatory; expansive; diffusive
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- But my Leech—a leech
Fit to suck blood, with lubricous round rings,
Capaciously expatiative, which make
His little body like a red balloon,
As full of blood as that of hydrogene,
Sucked from men’s hearts