Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To expedite.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To expedite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To hasten; to expedite.

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  • adjective obsolete expeditious
  • verb Common misconstruction of expedite.
  • verb rare, historical To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration (probably influenced by –ate) of expedite.]

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See expedite, expeditious.

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From Latin expediō ("set loose"), a compound of ex ("out, free") + pedis ("of the foot"), thus "freeing the feet".

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  • common mispronunciation of "expedite"

    verb, infinitive

    To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.

    September 16, 2009