expeditiousness

[Eng. expeditious; -ne .] The quality of being expeditious; quickne , expedition. *ex-pěd-1-tive, a . [Fr. expédit if ; Sp. expedi tivo.] Acting or performing with expedition or speed. "I mean not to purchase the praise of expeditive in that kind." -Bacon: Speech on Taking his Place in Chancery. *ex-ped-1-tör-ý, a. [Eng. expedit ( e ); -ory .] Making haste; expeditious. ěx-pěl, *ex-pell, v . t . [Lat. expello: ex =out, away, and pello to drive; Port. expellir Sp. ex peler ; Fr. expeller ; Ital, espellere . ] 1. To drive, force, or thrust out. "Suppose a mighty rock to fall there, it would expel the waters out of their places with such violence as to fling them among the clouds."-Burnet: Theory of the Earth. 2. To drive away. "These hardships quite expelled the thoughts of an enemy."-Dampier: Voyages (an. 1681). 3. To force out from any inclosed place or from that in which anything is contained; as, to expel air from the lungs. 4. To eject, to throw out. "Whatsoever cannot be digested by the stomach, is either put up by vomit, or put down to the guts, and other parts of the body are moved to expel by consent." Bacon : Natural History . 5. To banish or drive out from one's country; to force to leave one's country or home. "Fore wasted all their land and them expeld." Spenser: F. Q., I. 1. 5. *6. To discharge, to send out or forth. "The virgin huntre was not slow To expel the shaft from her contracted bow." Dryden: Ovid; Metamorphoses viii. 7. To cut off from connection, society, or fellowship; to deprive of the privileges of a society, a ociation, . 8. To exclude, to keep off or out. "Oh that that earth which kept the world in awe, Should stop a hole to expel the winter's flaw!" Shakesp: Hamlet , v. 1. *9. To reject, to refuse. "And would ye not poore fellowship expell , My selfe wouid offer you t' accompanie." Spenser: Mother Hubberd's Tale , 96. For the difference between to expel and to ban ish , see BANISH. 1741 ěx-pěnd, v t . & i. [ Lat.expendo =to weigh out, to lay out: ex out, and pen do =to weigh; Sp. ex pender; Ital. spendere .] A. Transitive : *1. To weigh, to consider. "The circumstances and consequences of them be well expended."-Barrow: Sermons , vol. i., ser. 8. 2. To lay out, to spend, to disburse, to pay away. "Part of this sum I expended upon the garrison."- Lud low: Memoirs, i. 61. 3. To consume, to use up, to employ, to lay out; as, to expend time or labor in pursuit of any object. 4. To give away, to part with, to yield up. "If my death might make this island happy, I would expend it with all willingne . Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II . , iii. 1. *B. In trans.: To be laid out, used, or consumed. For the difference between to expend and to spend, see SPEND.