Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-PE'DI-ENCE, or EX-PE'DI-EN-CY, n. [See Speed, Expedient and Expedite.]

1. Fitness or suitableness to effect some good end or the purpose intended; propriety under the particular circumstances of a case. The practicability of a measure is often obvious, when the expedience of it is questionable.
2. Expedition; adventure. [Not now used.] Shak.
3. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Not now used.] Shak.

EX-PE'DI-ENT, a. [L. expediens; expedio, to hasten; Eng. speed; Gr. σπευδω.]

1. Literally, hastening; urging forward. Hence, tending to promote the object proposed; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances. Many things may be lawful, which are not expedient.
2. Useful; profitable.
3. Quick; expeditious. [Not used.] Shak.

EX-PE'DI-ENT, n.

1. That which serves to promote or advance; any means which may be employed to accomplish an end. Let every expedient be employed to effect an important object, nor let exertions cease till all expedients fail of producing the effect.
2. Shift; means devised or employed in an exigency. Dryden.

EX-PE'DI-ENT-LY, adv.

1. Fitly; suitably; conveniently.
2. Hastily; quickly. [Obs.] Shak.

EX-PED'I-TATE, v.t. [L. ex and pes, foot.]

In the forest laws of England, to cut out the balls or claws of a dog's fore feet for the preservation of the king's game.

EX-PED-I-TA'TION, n.

The act of cutting out the balls or claws of a dog's fore feet. Encyc.

EX'PE-DITE, a. [L. expeditus.]

1. Quick; speedy; expeditious; as, expedite execution. [Little used.] Sandys.
2. Easy; clear of impediments; unencumbered; as, to make a way plain and expedite. [Unusual.] Hooker.
3. Active; nimble; ready; prompt. The more expedite will be the soul in its operations. [Unusual.] Tillotson.
4. Light-armed. [Not used.] Bacon.

EX'PE-DITE, v.t. [L. expedio; Sp. expedir; Fr. expedier; It. spedire; Ar. أفِدَ, afada, to hasten, or وَفَدَ wafada, to send, to move hastily, to be suitable; Eng. speed. Expedio is compound. We see the same root in impedio, to hinder, to send against, to move in opposition.]

1. To hasten; to quicken; to accelerate motion or progress. The general sent orders to expedite the march of the army. Artificial heat may expedite the growth of plants.
2. To dispatch; to send from. Such charters are expedited of course. Bacon.
3. To hasten by rendering easy. See No. 1.

EX-PE-DIT-ED, pp.

Facilitated; freed from impediment.

EX'PE-DITE-LY, adv.

Readily; hastily; speedily; promptly. Grew.

EX-PE-DIT-ING, ppr.

Facilitating; hastening.

EX-PE-DI'TION, n. [L. expeditio.]

1. Haste; speed; quickness; dispatch. The mail is conveyed with expedition.
2. The march of an army, or the voyage of a fleet, to a distant place, for hostile purposes; as, the expedition of the French to Egypt; the expedition of Xerxes into Greece.
3. Any enterprise, undertaking or attempt by a number of persons; or the collective body which undertakes. We say, our government sent an expedition to the Pacific; the expedition has arrived.

EX-PE-DI'TION-A-RY, a.

Consisting in an expedition.

EX-PE-DI'TIOUS, a.

1. Quick; hasty; speedy; as, an expeditious march.
2. Nimble; active; swift; acting with celerity; as, an expeditious messenger or runner.

EX-PE-DI'TIOUS-LY, adv.

Speedily; hastily; with celerity or dispatch.

EX-PED'I-TIVE, a.

Peforming with speed. Bacon.

EX-PEL', v.t. [L. expello; ex and pello, to drive, Gr. βαλλω, It. espellare; W. yspeliaw; and from the L. participle, Fr. expulser. Class Bl.]

1. To drive or force out from any inclosed place; as, to expel wind from the stomach, or air from a bellows. [The word is applicable to any force, physical or mental.]
2. To drive out; to force to leave; as, to expel the inhabitants of a country; to expel wild beasts from a forest.
3. To eject; to throw out. Dryden.
4. To banish; to exile. Pope.
5. To reject; to refuse. [Little used.] And would you not poor fellowship expel? Hub. Tale.
6. To exclude; to keep out or off. Shak.
7. In college government, to command to leave; to dissolve the connection of a student; to interdict him from further connection.

EX-PEL'LA-BLE, a.

That may be expelled or driven out. Acid expellable by heat. Kirwan.

EX-PEL'LED, pp.

Driven out or away; forced to leave; banished; exiled; excluded.

EX-PEL'LER, n.

He or that which drives out or away.

EX-PEL'LING, ppr.

Driving out; forcing away; compelling to quit or depart; banishing; excluding.

EX-PEND', v.i.

To be laid out, used or consumed.

EX-PEND', v.t. [L. expendo; ex and pendo, to weigh; Sp. expender; Fr. depenser, from L. dispendo; It. spendere; properly, to weigh off; hence, to lay out.]

1. To lay out; to disburse; to spend; to deliver or distribute, either in payment or in donations. We expend money for food, drink and clothing. We expend a little in charity, and a great deal in idle amusements.
2. To lay out; to use; to employ; to consume; as, to expend time and labor. I hope the time, labor and money expended on this book will not be wholly misemployed.
3. To use and consume; as, to expend hay in feeding cattle.
4. To consume; to dissipate; to waste; as, the oil of a lamp is expended in burning; water is expended in mechanical operations.

EX-PEND'ED, pp.

Laid out; spent; disbursed; used; consumed.

EX-PEND'ING, ppr.

Spending; using; employing; wasting.