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Definition of Expatiated:

of Expatiate

Usage examples:

The colonel told him all the news, and would no doubt have even expatiated on his ghostly visitant, had he not prudently concluded that his guest might decline to remain in a haunted inn.

- "Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories", Bret Harte.
Madame Francs shewed it to me, and expatiated upon it with tears in her eyes: as she well might- for the character of the deceased was allowed to have been as attractive as her countenance.

- "A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two", Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
When Miss Bremer expatiated on the brilliant hopes for the future of all Italy which Piedmont's advance on the path of freedom had awakened, he did not discourage them, but, with the prudence of the politician, refrained from anything more than vague expressions.

- "Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century", W. H. Davenport Adams.