Expatiate vs Clarify - What's the difference?
expatiate | clarify |
To range at large, or without restraint.
* Alexander Pope
To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant.
*1851 ,
* Addison
* 2007 , Clive James, Cultural Amnesia (Picador 2007, p. 847)
*:“It can't fly,” he expatiated . “It can move forward only by hopping.”
(obsolete) To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.
* (rfdate) Ure:
To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
* (rfdate) South:
(ergative) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
* Leave the wine for 24 hours and it will clarify .
(ergative) To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
(obsolete) To glorify.
In obsolete terms the difference between expatiate and clarify
is that expatiate is to expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden while clarify is to glorify.As verbs the difference between expatiate and clarify
is that expatiate is to range at large, or without restraint while clarify is to make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.expatiate
English
Verb
(expatiat)- Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies.
- Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here.
- He expatiated on the inconveniences of trade.
clarify
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en-verb)- Boiled and clarified .
- To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will.
