Expedient

eks-pē′di-ent, adj. suitable: advisable: ( Shak. ) hasty.— n. that which serves to promote: means suitable to an end: contrivance.— ns. Expē′dience ( Shak. ), haste, despatch: expediency; Expē′diency , fitne : desirablene : self-interest.— adj. Expedien′tial .— adv. Expē′diently . [L. expediens , -ent is , pr.p. of expedīre .]