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e; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. With winged expedition Swift as the lightning glance.

Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.

One who goes upon an expedition. [R].

The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.

A hindering; a hindrance. [Obs.] Baxier.

Unconditional. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Not conditioned; not limited; absolute. [Obs.] Boyle.

An incorrect or spurious edition. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A wrong tradition. "Monsters of mistradition." Tennyson.

Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due. The nonrendition of a service which is due. S. E. Dwight.

oul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death. The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. Shak. If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition. J. M. Mason.

Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition. [R.] Pollok.

A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.

Disclosure; treachery; treason. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Explanation; representation. [R.] The reddition or application of the comparison. Chapman.

Act of returning; return. [Obs.] Chapman.

nder in war. The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold blood after articles of rendition. Evelyn.

ty. In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. Macaulay.

An inciter or promoter of sedition. Bp. Hall.

The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied. Trench.