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expedition|ɛkspɪˈdɪʃən|
Forms: 5 expediccione, expedision, 5–6 expedicion, -icyon, -ycion, -ycyon, -itioun, 6– -ition.
[ad. L. expedītiōn-em, n. of action f. expedīre: see expedite v. Cf. F. expédition.]
†1. The action of expediting, helping forward or accomplishing; speedy performance or prompt execution (of justice, a journey); prompt supply (of anything), dispatch. Obs.
1464Paston Lett. No. 493 II. 166 The Kyng shall..shewe his good grace and favour in the expedision therof. c1477Caxton Jason 13 If hit plese you ye shal gyue me audience and goode expedicion. c1489― Blanchardyn xxxiv. (1890) 127 They retourned wyth-out expedicyon of that wherfore they were goon thyder. 1528in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. xiv. 108 Any..thing that might conduce to the furtherance and expedition of the cause. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 92 The ambassatouris..returnit but ony expeditioun of thair message. 1543–4Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 6 §2 For reformation whereof, and for the more expedition of iustice hereafter. 1543W. Clebe MS. Addit. 4609 f. 409 in Turner Dom. Archit. III. 79 For puryance and hasty expedition of the necessities aforsaide. 1606G. W[oodcocke] tr. Justin's Hist. 65 b, Alexander..prepared for reuengfull warre..and for expedition thereof he desired of Demetryus, etc. 1649Answ. Petit. City Oxf. in J. Harrington Def. Rights Univ. Oxford (1690) 19 There is as quick expedition in our courts as in any other courts.
†b. The condition of being expedited or set in motion; only in phr. in expedition. Obs.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. ii. 191 Let us deliuer our Puissance into the hand of God Putting it straight in expedition. 1667Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872–5 II. 223 A Bill against Pluralityes is committed. Several other things in expedition.
2. A sending or setting forth with martial intentions; a warlike enterprise.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. viii. heading, In this expedicion towardes Colchos. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 59 Not⁓withstanding, he conquered not in that expedition. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. iv. §11 Strabo confesseth as much [ignorance] of the Western parts of Europe till the Roman expeditions thither. 1724De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 269 This was the best and most successful expedition I was in during this war. 1839Thirlwall Greece VII. lviii. 311 Ptolemy, having suppressed an insurrection in Cyrene, made an expedition in person to Cyprus.
b. A journey, voyage, or excursion made for some definite purpose.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. i. iii. 77 You shall be imployd, To hasten on his Expedition. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 193 Mean while the Son On his great Expedition now appeer'd. a1716South Serm. iii. (1737) I. 81 A hard expedition..to go amongst wolves. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge viii, It was not a very choice spot for midnight expeditions. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. App. 536 This was not the last begging expedition of Gervinus to our shore.
3. concr. A body of persons, also a fleet, etc., sent out for a warlike or other definite purpose.
1693Luttrell Brief Rel. III. 192 A draught is made out of the several regiments..to goe on board the expedition. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. 11 Mr...Seton..had accompanied one of the expeditions sent out by Mr. Astor. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man 37 M. Girard, of the French expedition to Egypt. 1880W. Cory Mod. Eng. Hist. I. 194 note, An expedition may consist of a single ship.
†4. The action of issuing or sending out official documents. Hence concr. the documents sent out. Obs.
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 2423 Whan they had optayned perfyte expedycyon Of all theyr bulles. 1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 20 §3 No person..shall pay any sommes of money..for expedicion of any..bulles, breues, or palles. 1685F. Spence House Medici 431 Leo did often..examine the expeditions..presented him to sign. 1706tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. II. v. 81 The Seals..of the Expeditions which he [the Nuncio] had made during his Legation.
b. gen. after Fr. expédition. The sending forth, dispatch (of articles of any kind).
1796M. Perregaux in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 350 The expedition of the ‘Moniteurs’ to the 8th of May.
5. The quality of being ‘expedite’; quick movement; promptness, haste, speed. Also in phr. with expedition; to † make, use, expedition.
1529Wolsey in Four C. Eng. Lett. 10 That expedicion be usyd in my persuts. 1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. iv. iii, To Babylon, Whither we next make expedition. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. i. iii. 37 Even with the speediest expedition I will despatch him to the Emperors Court. 1671Milton Samson 1283 With winged expedition, Swift as the lightning glance. 1701Penn in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 54 With all possible vigilance and expedition. 1747Col. Rec. Pennsylv. V. 77 He was told to use all the Expedition Possible. 1815T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 265 How can expedition be expected from a body which we have saddled with an hundred lawyers.
b. Readiness.
1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 4 In Alexander..was a subtiltie, sharpnesse and expedition of wit most singular.
6. Rhet. (See quots.)
[1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 98 Expeditio..when many reasons of averment being numbred together, we make a confutation of them, each one in particular. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 241 Expeditio, or the speedie dispatcher.] 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 250 Expedition is a figure when many parts or reasons of an argument being enumerated and touched, all are destroyed, save that only upon which the speaker intends to conclude, stand to, and rest upon.
7. Comb. expedition-fee, -money, a fee or money paid for hastening the performance of any work; expedition-squadron.
1672Wycherley Love in Wood iv. ii, If you will not let me make an end on't, I shall lose my expedition-fee. 1694Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 366 Sir Clowdesly Shovell, with the expedition squadron, sailed out of the Downs. 1725Berkeley Let. 12 June Wks. IV. 112 The Charter..hath cost me 130 pounds..besides expedition-money to men in office. 1794Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. XV. 41, I next inquired what expedition-money might have been given. 1866Daily Tel. 20 Jan. 4/1 He claimed a sum of about {pstlg}26,000 for expedition money. |