a. rare. [as if ad. L. expiscātōri-us, f. expiscārī: see EXPISCATE and -ORY.] Tending to expiscate or ‘fish out.’
1829. Blackw. Mag., XXVI. 586. I was moved thereunto by an expiscatory curiosity.
1837. Carlyle, Diam. Neckl., Misc. (1888), V. 190. By … expiscatory questions … this most involute of Lies is finally winded off.
