The act or process of fishing out, discovering, or extracting something through investigation, questioning, or patient searching.
From expiscate + -tion suffix (Latin nominalization). Formed from the same root as expiscari, referring to the completed action of fishing something out.
The noun form of this rare verb gives us a beautiful word for the detective work of drawing out secrets—an expiscation of truth through skillful questioning.
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