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Quality of being expedite.

The quality of being expedite; 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].

Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ness, n.

Performing with speed. [Obs.] Bacon.

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.

Capable of being expelled or driven out. "Expellable by heat." Kirwan.

One who. or that which, expels.

e 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 willi…

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak.

Full of expense; costly; chargeable. [R.] Sir H. Wotton. -- Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. [R.] -- Ex*pense"ful*ness, n. [R.]

Without cost or expense.

Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke.

Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.] She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. Spenser.

A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.

repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.

One who experiences.