expeditation (ekspeditashon)

[ Though set times and forms of prayer are not absolutely nece ary in private J. H. prayer, Newman , yet Parochial they are highly Sermons, expedient . i. 246. expedite (eks'pē-dit), v. t.; He [Cleomenes] should not spare to do anything that should be expedient for the honour of Sparta. North , tr. of Plutarch, p. 675. 4. Conducive or tending to present advantage or self-interest. For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient . Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 40. = Syn. 3 and 4. Advisable, desirable, advantageous, prof- itable, useful, best, wise. II. n. 1. That which serves to promote or advance a desired result; any means which may be employed to accomplish an end. It puzzleth the wisest among our selves to find out ex- pedients to keep us from ruining one of the best Churches of the Christian World. Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. viii. What sure expedient then shall Juno find, To calm her fears, and ease her boding mind? A. Phillips , Fable of Thule. 2. Means devised or employed in an exigency; a shift; a device. ments. The Roman religion is commodious in nothing more than in finding out expedients , either for removing quite away, or for shifting from one to another, all personal punish Brevint , Saul and Samuel at Endor, xxi. New expedients must accordingly be devised to meet the unexpected emergency. Theodore Parker , Sermon on Providence. The expedient , in this case, was a very simple one, neither more nor le than a bribe. Macaulay , Warren Hastings. =Syn. Expedient , Resource , Resort, Contrivance, Device, Shift . Expedient , contrivance , and device indicate artificial means of escape from difficulty or embarra ment; resource indicates natural means or something po e ed; resort and shift may indicate either. A shift is a temporary, poor, or desperate expedient . When one's resources begin to fail, one has recourse to contrivances , expedients , etc., and finally to almost any shift . Resort is applied to the thing resorted to than to the act of resorting. Contrivance and device suggest most of ingenuity. We have the present Yankee, full of expedients, half master of all trades, inventive in all but the beautiful, full of shifts, not yet capable of comfort. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 1st ser., Int. Different races of ants have very different resources , and different individuals, even in the same race, show a very different amount of resource in dealing with the same difficulty. Pop. Sci . Mo., XXVI. 262. Between justice as my prime support, And mercy, fled to as the last resort , I glide and steal along with Heav'n in view. Cowper , Hope, 1. 378. They [new settlers] have a motive to labour more a iduously, and to adopt contrivances for making their labour more effectual. J. S. Mill , Pol.. Econ., I. viii. § 2. Courage the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. IMG:content-0920.png:[blocks in formation] The Prince himself had repeatedly offered to withdraw forever from the country, if his absence would expedite a settlement satisfactory to the provinces. Motley, Dutch Republic, II. 519. 2. To despatch; send forth; i ue officially. Though such charters be expedited of course, and as of right, yet they are varied by discretion. Bacon. Orders were undoubtedly expedited from Jerusalem to Damascus, as soon as me engers could be interchanged. De Quincey, E enes, i. =Syn. 1. To speed, forward, advance, pre on, pre forward, urge on, urge forward, drive, push. expeditet (eks'pē-dīt), a . [=D. expediet = Dan. Sw. expedit = Sp. Pg. expedito = It. espedito , spedito , exp edit us , unimpeded, free, ready, easy, pp. of expedire , despatch: see expede , ex pedite, v.] 1. Cleared of impediments; unobstructed; unimpeded; unencumbered. Nature can teach the church but in part; neither so fully as is requisite for man's salvation, nor so easily as to make the way plain and expedite . Hooker , Eccles. Polity. That the ways of his Lord and ours might be made clear, ready, and expedite . Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 86. 2. Ready; quick; expeditious. The second method of doctrine was introduced for ex pedite use and a urance sake. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 224. Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts. Locke , Human Understanding, ii. 19. expeditely (eks'pē-dīt-li), adv . Expeditiously. Who would not more readily learn to write fairly and expeditely by imitating one good copy than by hearkening to a you sand oral prescriptions? Barrow , Works, III. ii.