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The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance. Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls. Palfrey.

Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.] Making hither with all due expedience. Shak.

d; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion. The expedition miserably failed. Prescott. Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont.

A waking up or arousing. [Obs.] Holland

s.] Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire. Deut. xviii. 10 (Douay version)

The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving.

e act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite.

ssly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.

The act of taking by assault; conquest. [R.] Sandys.

Speaking or writing done extempore. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.

The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment. To listen . . . to every extenuation of what is evil. I. Taylor.

The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.

To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt. There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year. Huxley.

The act of facilitating or making easy.

A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.] A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. B. Jonson.

Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides. [Obs.] Always factionary on the party of your general. Shak.

Making; having power to make. [Obs.] "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon.

The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. Bacon.