expatiate

Feb. 6th, 2006 07:13 am
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expatiate - v., to speak or write at length or in detail, expound; to move about freely, wander.


The second is the original meaning: from Latin expatiari, to walk or go far and wide, from ex-, out, + spatiari, to walk about. Beware the fannish expatiation!

---L.

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