Part 919

By all men's eyes a youth of expectation.

Otway.

4. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.

5. (Med.) The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age.

Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust.

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Ex*pect"a*tive (?), a. [Cf. F. expectatif.] Constituting an object of expectation; contingent.

Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. Foxe.

Ex*pect"a*tive, n. [F. expectative, fr. expectatif expectant.] Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace. Milman.

Ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. In conformity with expectation. [R.] Walpole.

Ex*pect"er (?), n. One who expects.

Ex*pect"ing*ly, adv. In a state of expectation.

Ex*pect"ive (?), a. Expectative. [R.] Shipley.

Ex*pec"to*rant (?), a. [L. expectorans, p. pr. of expectorare to drive from the breast: cf. F. expectorant.] (Med.) Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n. An expectorant medicine.

Ex*pec"to*rate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expectorated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expectorating (?).] [L. expecrorare to drive from the breast; ex out + pectus, pectiris, breast. See Pectoral.] To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

Ex*pec"to*rate, v. i. To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit.

Ex*pec`to*ra"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. expectoration.] 1. The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

2. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.

Ex*pec"to*ra*tive (?), a. & n. Same as Expectorant. Harvey.

Ex*pede" (?) v. t. To expedite; to hasten. [Obs.]

Ex*pe"di*ate (?), v. t. [Cf. F. expédier. See Expedite.] To hasten; to expedite. [Obs.] "To expediate their business." Sir E. Sandys.

{ Ex*pe"di*ence (?), Ex*pe"di*en*cy (?), }, n. 1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.

Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.

Cogan.

To determine concerning the expedience of action.

Sharp.

Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled.