Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing.
1 Then they began to expatiate with fresh enthusiasm on her unparalleled loveliness.
2 Their gaiety is not greater than their delicacy-butI will not expatiate .
3 Whereupon, vastly encouraged, Clyde proceeded to expatiate upon his own surpassing qualifications.
4 But why expatiate to a stranger on sorrow which must be secret?
5 How could I expatiate upon the benefits that would arise from both!
6 Nor need you expatiate to me upon the obduracy of the Aylett pride.
7 This led him to expatiate upon the necessity of national honor.
8 But this is not the place to expatiate upon the subject.
9 Scott went on to expatiate on the popular songs of Scotland.
10 I'll just briefly expatiate on how I ended up living alone.
11 This circumstance of vicinity he would expatiate on to me with peculiar emphasis.
12 Divines need not declaim, nor philosophers expatiate , on the disappointments of human life.
13 On both accounts, therefore, it was improper to expatiate upon it.
14 I desire to hear thee expatiate on this subject, O grandsire.
15 And no one asked you, sir, to expatiate on my face.
16 There is no need for George Eliot to expatiate on Mrs. Poyser's humor.
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