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Get 5 BESTSELLERS FOR $1 + A FREE ATTACHE CASE with membership to The Book-of-the-Month Club(R). Save on your favorites: Stephen King, James Patterson, Mary Higgins Clark, John Grisham, Amy Tan & so many others. You?ll save on all the "must read" books! Click for details. http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/33364/155726/155726 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/33364/155726/155726"< AOL users click here </a< =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Word of the Day for Sunday March 10, 2002: expatiate \ek-SPAY-shee-ayt\, intransitive verb: 1. To speak or write at length or in considerable detail. 2. To move about freely; to wander. He had told her all he had been asked to tell--or all he meant to tell: at any rate he had been given abundant opportunity to expatiate upon a young man's darling subject--himself. --Henry Blake Fuller, Bertram Cope's Year At the midday meal on fair day, a large one (meat loaf, boiled potato, broccoli), Mrs. Lucas, married to the man with the earache, expatiates on the difficulties of caring for a parakeet her daughter has unloaded upon her and which, let out of its cage for an airing, has escaped through the door suddenly opened by Mr. Lucas. --William H. Pritchard, Updike: America's Man of Letters His relationship with his family was for many years an unhappy one, and he does not care to expatiate upon it. --Barbara La Fontaine, "Triple Threat On, Off And Off-Off Broadway," [1]New York Times, February 25, 1968 _________________________________________________________ Expatiate is from Latin expatiari, "to walk or go far and wide," from ex-, "out" + spatiari, "to walk about," from spatium, "space; an open space, a place for walking in." References 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: matt.motley@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-357530C@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2002 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
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