Part 4059

<hw>Ex"pe*dite`ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Quality of being expedite.</def>

<h1>Expedition</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex`pe*di"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>expeditio</ets>: cf.F. <ets>exp\'82dition</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with <i>expedition</i>.</def>

<blockquote>With winged <b>expedition</b>

<blockquote><b>Swift as the lightning glance</b>. <b><?/</b>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.</def>

<blockquote>Putting it straight in <b>expedition</b>. <b><?/</b>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific <i>expedition</i>; also, the body of persons making such excursion.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>expedition</b> miserably failed. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Narrative of the exploring <b>expedition</b> to the Rocky Mountains. <i>J. C. Fremont.</i>

<h1>Expeditionary</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex`pe*di"tion*a*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to an expedition; <as>as, an <ex>expeditionary</ex> force</as>.</def>

<h1>Expeditoinist</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex`pe*di"toin*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who goes upon an expedition. <mark></mark>.</def>

<h1>Expeditious</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex`pe*di"tious</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; <as>as, an <ex>expeditious march or messenger</ex></as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Ex`pe*di"tious*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Ex`pe*di"tious*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<syn>Syn. -- Prompt; ready; speedy; alert. See <er>Prompt</er>.</syn>

<h1>Expeditive</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*ped"i*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>exp\'82ditif</ets>.]</ety> <def>Performing with speed.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Expel</h1> <Xpage=523>

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

<blockquote>Did not ye . . . <b>expel</b> me out of my father's house? <blockquote>Judg. Xi. 7.

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To drive away from one's country; to banish</def>.

<blockquote>Forewasted all their land, and them <b>expelled</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>.

<blockquote>He shell <b>expel</b> them from before you . . . and ye shell possess their land. <i>Josh. xxiii. 5.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; <as>as, to <ex>expel</ex> a student or member</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To keep out, off, or away; to exclude.</def> "To <i>expel</i> the winter's flaw."