expiscation

English

Noun

expiscation (countable and uncountable, plural expiscations)

1. (archaic, formal) The act of expiscating; fishing.
   • 1601, George Chapman, Peristeros, or the Male Turtle:

     All thy worth, yet, thy selfe must Patronise,
     By quaffing more of the Castalian Head;
     In expiscation of whose Mysteries,
     Our Netts must still be clogd, with heauy Lead,
     To make them sincke, and catche

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “expiscation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)