Obs. or arch. [ad. L. ex(s)patiāt-us, pa. pple. of ex(s)patiārī: see next.] Equivalent to the later EXPATIATED. In quots. Widespread; laid at full length.
1702. De Foe, Reform. Manners, 30. There lye the Seeds of high expatiate Sin.
1854. Syd. Dobell, Balder, xxvii. 186. Stretch him out, like the prophet on the dead … Bound and prone, expatiate with nice art To the invenient horror.
