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Syn. -- Prompt; ready; speedy; alert. See Prompt.

Ex*ped"i*tive (?), a. [Cf. F. expéditif.] Performing with speed. [Obs.] Bacon.

Ex*pel" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expelled (?), p. pr. & vb. n.. Expelling.] [L. expellere, expulsum; ex out + pellere to drive: cf.F. expeller. See Pulse a beat.] 1. To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as, to expel air from a bellows.

Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house?

Judg. xi. 7.

2. To drive away from one's country; to banish.

Forewasted all their land, and them expelled.

Spenser..

He shall expel them from before you . . . and ye shall possess their land.

Josh. xxiii. 5.

3. To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

4. To keep out, off, or away; to exclude. "To expel the winter's flaw." Shak.

5. To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.]

Then he another and another [shaft] did expel.

Spenser..

Syn. -- To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See Banish.

Ex*pel"la*ble (?), a. Capable of being expelled or driven out. "Expellable by heat." Kirwan.

Ex*pel"ler (?), n. One who, or that which, expels.

Ex*pend" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expended; p. pr. & vb. n. Expending.] [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See Poise, and cf. Spend.] To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.

If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness.

Shak.

Ex*pend", v. i. 1. To be laid out, used, or consumed.

2. To pay out or disburse money.

They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend.

Macaulay.

Ex*pend"i*tor (?), n. [LL.] (O. Eng. Law) A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.

Ex*pend"iture (?), n. 1. The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest.