| 单词 | to make, use, expedition |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto †make, use, expedition a. The quality of being ‘expedite’; quick movement; promptness, haste, speed. Also in with expedition; to †make, use, expedition. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > expedition or dispatch speedOE diligence1490 expedition1529 dispatch1570 expedience1597 urgence1612 navity1623 expediteness1635 1529 T. Wolsey in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. 10 That expedicion be usyd in my persuts. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. K To Babylon, Whether we next make expedition. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. iii. 37 Euen with the speediest expedition, I will dispatch him to the Emperors Court. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1283 With winged expedition Swift as the lightning glance. View more context for this quotation 1701 W. Penn in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 54 With all possible vigilance and expedition. 1747 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 77 He was told to use all the Expedition Possible. 1815 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 265 How can expedition be expected from a body which we have saddled with an hundred lawyers. < as lemmas |
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