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. Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. -- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv.

itted. Ex post facto laws are held to be contrary to the fundamental principles of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States. Burrill. Kent.

To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.

constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke.

freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .

A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good…

Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster. Shak.

The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college. Dean of faculty. See under Dean. -- Faculty of advocates. (Scot.) See under Advocate.

signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment. Stowe.

One who is governed by fancy. "Not reasoners, but fanciers." Macaulay.

A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.

A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. The province was devided into twelve farms. Burke.

ocke. As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. H. Spencer.

special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior power, or to a government; loyality. It is no longer the practice to exact the performance of fealty, as a feudal obligation. Wharton (Law Dict. ). Tomlins.

en parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives. The Romans compelled them, contrary to all federal right, . . . to part with Sardinia. Grew.

A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government. Burke.

ing on a specie basis, but deriving its purchasing power from the declaratory fiat of the government issuing it.

Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue. The fiscal arreangements of government. A. Hamilton.

atural or artificial flies. Walton. -- Fly flap, an implement for killing flies. -- Fly governor, a governor for regulating the speed of an engine, etc., by the resistance of vanes revolving in the air. -- Fly honeysuckle (Bot.), a plant of the honeysuckle genus (Lonicera), having a bushy stem and the flowers in pai…

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton.