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EXPECTORATION,/. The aft of difcharging from 
the bread. That difcharge which is made by coughing, 
as bringing up phlegm, or ar.y thing that obftruTs the 
veffels of the lungs, and (Iraitens the breath.—With wa¬ 
fer, vinegar, and honey, in pleurifies and inflammations 
of the lungs, he-mixeth fpices, for promoting expettora. 
tion. Arbuthnot. 
EXPEC'TORATIVE, adj. Having the quality of pro¬ 
moting expectoration.—Syrups and other expeEloratives , in 
coughs, mud neceffarily occafion a greater cough. Harvey. 
EXPE'DIENCE, or Expediency, / Fitnefs; pro¬ 
priety ; fuitablenefs to an end.<—Solemn dedications of 
things let apart for divine worlhip, could never have been 
univerfally praCtifed, had not right reafon dictated the 
high expediency and great ufe of Inch practices. South. — 
11.is ufed for expedition ; adventure; or attempt: 
Let me hear 
What yefternight our council did decree, 
In forwarding this dear expedience. Shakefpeare. 
It is alfo ufed try Shakefpeare for expedition; hafte j dif- 
patch: 
Eight tall fnips, three thoufand men of war. 
Are making hither with all due expedience. Richard II. 
EXPE'DIENT, adj. [ expedit , Lat.] Proper; fit; con¬ 
venient; fuitable.—All things are not expedient: in things 
indifferent there is a choice; they are not always equally 
expedient. Hooker. —When men live as if there were no 
God, it becomes expedient for them that there fhould be 
none ; and then they endeavour to perfuade themfelves 
fo. Tillotfon.-— In Shakefpeare, quick; expeditious: 
The adverfe winds, 
Whofe leifure I have (laid, have given him time 
To land his legions all as foon as I : 
His marches are expedient to this town. Shakefpeare. 
EXPE'DIENT,/ That which helps forward, as means 
to an end.—God does not projeCt for our forrow, but 
our innocence; and would never have invited us to the 
one, but as an expedient to the other. Decay of Piety. — A 
fhift; means to an end which are contrived in an exigence, 
or difficulty : 
Th’ expedient pleas’d, where neither loft his right; 
Mars had the day, and Venus had the night. Dryden. 
EXPE'DIENTLY, adj. Fitly; fuitably; convenient¬ 
ly. Haftily ; quickly. Not ufed: 
Let my officers of fuch a nature 
Make an extent upon his houfe and lands: 
Do this expediently, and turn him going. Shakefpeare. 
EXPED'IMENT, f. A law term for the whole of a 
man’s goods and chattels, bag and baggage. 
ToEXPE'DITATE, v. a. [expeditarc, Lat.] In the laws 
of the foreft, lignifies to cut out the ball of the dog’s fore¬ 
feet, for the prefervation of the king’s game : but the 
ball of the foot of a maftitf is not to be taken out, but 
the three claws of the fore-foot on the right fide are to 
be cut off by the ikin. Cronip. Jurifd. 152. Manwood, 1 6. 
This relates to every man’s dog who lives near the foreft ; 
and was formerly done once in every three years: and if 
any perfon keeps a great dog not expeditated, he forfeits 
to the king 3s. 4ft. 4 Inft. 308. 
To EX'PEDITE, v. a. [expedio, Lat.] To facilitate; 
to free from impediment: 
By (in and death a broad way now is pav’d, 
To expedite your glorious march. Milton. 
To haften ; to quicken.—An inquifition would ftill be a 
further improvement, and would expedite the converlion 
of the papifts. Swift. —To dilpatch ; to iffue from a pub¬ 
lic office.—Though fuch charters be expedited of courfe, 
and as of right, yet they are varied by diferetion. Bacon. 
EX'PEDITE, adj. [ expeditus , Lat.] Quick; hafty ; 
foon performed.—Wholefome advice, and expedite execu¬ 
tion in freeing the ftate of thofe monfters. Sandys. —Eafy; 
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difencumbered ; clear from impediments.—-Nature can 
teach the church but in part ; neither fo fully as is requi- 
fite for man’s falvation, nor fo ealily as to make the way 
plain and expedite enough, that many come to the know¬ 
ledge of it, and fo be faved ; and therefore the Scripture 
has been given. Hooker. —Nimble; aiSlive; agile.—The 
more any man’s foul is cleatifed from fenfual lufts, the 
more nimble and expedite it will be in its operations. Til- 
lotfon. — It feems to be ufed by Bacon for light.armed in the 
Roman fignification.—lie fent the lord chamberlain with 
expedite forces to fpeed to Exeter, to the refeue of the 
town. Bacon's Henry VI f. 
EX'PEDITELY, adj. With quicknefs; readinefs ; 
hafte.—Nature left his ears naked, that he may turn them 
more expeditely for the reception of founds from every 
quarter. Grew. 
EXPEDITION,/ Hafte; fpeed; activity : 
Ev’n with the fpeedieft expedition 
I will difpatch him to the emperor’s court. Shakefpeare. 
A march or voyage with martial intentions: 
Young Octavius, and Marie Antony, 
Come down upon us with a mighty power, 
Bending their expedition toW’rd Philippi. Shakefpeare , 
EXPEDITIONARY,/ In the pope’s confiftory, an 
officer who takes care of difpatches. 
EXPEDITIOUS, adj. Speedy; quick; foon done': 
as, an expeditious march. Nimble; quick; fwiftj acting 
with celerity: as, an expeditious runner. 
EXPEDITIOUSLY, adv. Speedily; nimbly; with 
celerity. 
To EXPE'L, v. a. [expello , Lat.] To drive out; to 
force away.—The Lord your God (hall expel them from 
before you, and drive them from out of your light. 
Jof. xxiii. 5.—To eje£t; to throw out : 
The virgin huntrefs was not flow 
T’ expel the (haft from her contracted bow. Dryden . 
To banilh ; to drive from the place of refidence : 
Arms and the man I fing, who forc’d by fate. 
And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate, 
Expel'd and exil’d left the Trojan (bore. Dryden. 
To rejeCt; to refute : 
And would you not poor fellowfhip expel, 
Myfelf would offer you t’ accompany 
In this adventurous chanceful jeopardy. Hubberd. 
To keep off; to exclude ; to keep out : 
Since (tie did negleCt her looking-glafs, 
And threw her fun -expelling made away. 
The air hath ftarv’d the roles in her cheeks, 
And pinch’d the lily tiiMfure of her face. Shakefpeare. 
EXPEL'LENTS, /. [expello, Lat. to drive out.] Me¬ 
dicines which, by whatever means, drive out morbid hu¬ 
mours from the body. 
EXPEL'LER, /. One that expels or drives away. 
To EXPE'ND, •v. a. [expendo , Lat.] To lay out; to 
fpend.—The public burthens, though they may be a good 
reafon for our not expending Co much in charity, yet will 
not juftify us in giving nothing. Atterbury. 
EXPEN'DITORS, /. in law, perfons appointed by 
commiflioners of (ewers to pay, dilburfe, or.expend, the 
money collected by the tax for the repairs'of (ewers, &c. 
when paid into their hands by the collectors, on the re¬ 
parations, amendments, and reformations, ordered by the 
commiflioners, for which they are to render accounts when 
thereunto required. Laws of Sewers, 87. See alfo Sewers. 
•—The fteward who fupervifes the repair of the banks and 
water-courfes in Romney-marfh, is called the expenditor. 
EXPEN'SE,/ [ expenfum, Lat.] Colt; charges; money 
expended.—I can fee no reafon by which we are obliged 
to make thofe prodigious expenfes. Swift. 
A feaft prepar’d with riotous expenfe, 
Much roll, more care, and molt magnificence. Dryden. 
EXPEN'SEFUL, 
