expatiative

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

expatiate +‎ -ive

Adjective[edit]

expatiative (comparative more expatiative, superlative most expatiative)

  1. expatiatory; expansive; diffusive
    • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
      But my Leech—a leech
      Fit to suck blood, with lubricous round rings,
      Capaciously expatiative, which make
      His little body like a red balloon,
      As full of blood as that of hydrogene,
      Sucked from men’s hearts
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