Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.