Chapter 107

Ex"pe*dite, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expedited (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expediting (?).] 1. To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.

To expedite your glorious march.

Milton.

2. To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.

Such charters be expedited of course.

Bacon.

Ex"pe*dite`ly (?), adv. In expedite manner; expeditiously.

Ex"pe*dite`ness, n. Quality of being expedite.

Ex`pe*di"tion (?), n. [L. expeditio: cf.F. expédition.] 1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

With winged expedition

Swift as the lightning glance. &?;

2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.

Putting it straight in expedition. &?;

3. An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion.

The expedition miserably failed.

Prescott.

Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains.

J. C. Fremont.

Ex`pe*di"tion*a*ry (?), a. Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.

Ex`pe*di"tion*ist, n. One who goes upon an expedition. [R].

Ex`pe*di"tious (?), a. Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ness, n.

Syn. -- Prompt; ready; speedy; alert. See Prompt.

Ex*ped"i*tive (?), a. [Cf. F. expéditif.] Performing with speed. [Obs.] Bacon.

Ex*pel" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expelled (?), p. pr. & vb. n.. Expelling.] [L. expellere, expulsum; ex out + pellere to drive: cf.F. expeller. See Pulse a beat.] 1. To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as, to expel air from a bellows.

Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house?

Judg. xi. 7.

2. To drive away from one's country; to banish.

Forewasted all their land, and them expelled.

Spenser..

He shall expel them from before you . . . and ye shall possess their land.

Josh. xxiii. 5.

3. To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

4. To keep out, off, or away; to exclude. "To expel the winter's flaw." Shak.

5. To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.]

Then he another and another [shaft] did expel.

Spenser..

Syn. -- To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See Banish.

Ex*pel"la*ble (?), a. Capable of being expelled or driven out. "Expellable by heat." Kirwan.

Ex*pel"ler (?), n. One who, or that which, expels.

Ex*pend" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expended; p. pr. & vb. n. Expending.] [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See Poise, and cf. Spend.] To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.

If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness.

Shak.

Ex*pend", v. i. 1. To be laid out, used, or consumed.

2. To pay out or disburse money.

They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend.

Macaulay.

Ex*pend"i*tor (?), n. [LL.] (O. Eng. Law) A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.

Ex*pend"iture (?), n. 1. The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest.

Burke.

2. That which is expended or paid out; expense.

The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country.

A. Hamilton.

Ex*pense" (?), n. [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend.] 1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

Husband nature's riches from expense.

Shak.

2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.

Courting popularity at his party's expense.

Brougham.

3. Loss. [Obs.] Shak.

And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.

Spenser.

Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L. Scott.

Ex*pense"full (?), a. Full of expense; costly; chargeable. [R.] Sir H. Wotton. -- Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. [R.] -- Ex*pense"ful*ness, n. [R.]

Ex*pense"less, a. Without cost or expense.

Ex*pen"sive (?), a. 1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

War is expensive, and peace desirable.

Burke.

2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish. [R.]

An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.

Sprat.

The idle and expensive are dangerous.

Sir W. Temple.

Syn. -- Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant.

-- Ex*pen"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*pen"sive*ness, n.

Ex*pe"ri*ence (?), n. [F. expérience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, -entis, p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of pertus experienced. See Peril, and cf. Expert.] 1. Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.]

She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts.

Spenser.

2. The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering. "Guided by other's experiences." Shak.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

P. Henry

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

Coleridge.

When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting.

Holland.

Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.

Sharp.

3. An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.

Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.

Locke.

Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment.

Sir J. Herschel.

Ex*pe"ri*ence, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Experienced (-enst); p. pr. & vb. n. Experiencing (-en-s?ng).] 1. To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.

The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India.

Thirwall.

2. To exercise; to train by practice.

The youthful sailors thus with early care Their arms experience, and for sea prepare.

Harte.

To experience religion (Theol.), to become a convert to the doctrines of Christianity; to yield to the power of religious truth.

Ex*pe"ri*enced (-enst), p. p. & a. Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.

The ablest and most experienced statesmen.

Bancroft.

Ex*pe"ri*en*cer (-en-s?r), n. 1. One who experiences.

2. An experimenter. [Obs.] Sir. K. Gigby.

Ex*pe"ri*ent (-ent), a. Experienced. [Obs.]

The prince now ripe and full experient.

Beau. & Fl.

Ex*pe`ri*en"tial (?), a. Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. Coleridge.

It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is divan to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning.

Sir. W. Hamiltion.

-- Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly, adv. DR. H. More.

Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ism (?), n. (Philos.) The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionalism.

Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a psychological one.

G. C. Robertson.

Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ist, n. One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.

Ex*per"i*ment (?), n. [L. experimentum, fr. experiri to try: cf. OF. esperiment, experiment. See Experience.] 1. A trial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggested or known truth; practical test; proof.

A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours.

J. Adams.

2. Experience. [Obs.]

Adam, by sad experiment I know How little weight my words with thee can find.

Milton.

Ex*per"i*ment (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Experimented; p. pr. & vb. n. Experinenting.] To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.

Ex*per"i*ment, v. t. To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Ex*per`i*men"tal (?), a. [Cf.F. expérimental.] 1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.

2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.

Ex*per`i*men"tal*ist, n. One who makes experiments; an experimenter. Whaterly.

Ex*per`i*men"tal*ize (?), v. i. To make experiments (upon); to experiment. J. S. Mill.

Ex*per`i*men"tal*ly (?), adv. By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill.

Ex*per`i*men*ta"ri*an (?), a. Relying on experiment or experience. "an experimentarian philosopher." Boyle. -- n. One who relies on experiment or experience. [Obs.]

Ex*per`i*men*ta"tion (?), n. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill.

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Ex*per`i*men"ta*tive (?), a. Experimental; of the nature of experiment. [R.]

Ex*per"i*men*ta`tor (?), n. [LL.] An experimenter. [R.]

Ex*per"i*men`ter (?), n. One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.

Ex*per"i*men`tist (?), n. An experimenter.

Ex`per*rec"tion (?), n. [L. expergisci, p. p. experrectus, to rouse up; ex out + pergere to wake up.] A waking up or arousing. [Obs.] Holland

Ex*pert" (?), a. [F. expert, L. expertus, p. p. of experiri to try. See Experience.] Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.

A valiant and most expert gentleman.

Shak.

What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert?

Tennyson.

Syn. -- Adroit; dexterous; clever; ready; prompt.

Ex"pert (?), n. 1. An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.

2. (Law) (a) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

Such specialists may be witnesses in matters as to which ordinary observers could not without such aid form just conclusions, and are liable for negligence in case they injure another from want of proper qualifications or proper care in the exercise of their specialty.

(b) A sworn appraiser.

Ex*pert" (?), v. t. To experience. [Obs.]

Die would we daily, once it to expert.

Spencer.

Ex*pert"ly, adv. In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.

Ex*pert"ness, n. Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.

Syn. -- Facility; readiness; dexterity; adroitness; skill. See Facility.

Ex*pet"ible (?), a. [L., expetibilis, fr. expetere to wish for; ex out + petere to seek.] Worthy of being wished for; desirable. [Obs.] Puller.

Ex"pi*a*ble (?), a. [See Expiate.] Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt. Bp. Hall.

Ex"pi*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expiated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expiating(?).] [L. expiatus, p. p. of expiare to expiate; ex out + piare to seek to appease, to purify with sacred rites, fr. pius pious. See Pious.] 1. To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.

To expiate his treason, hath naught left.

Milton.

The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.

Clarendon.

2. To purify with sacred rites. [Obs.]

Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire.

Deut. xviii. 10 (Douay version)

Ex"pi*ate (?), a. [L. expiatus,p. p] Terminated. [Obs.] Shak.

Ex`pi*a"tion (?), n. [L. expiatio: cf.F. expiation] 1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.

His liberality seemed to have something in it of self- abasement and expiation.

W. Irving.

2. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.

Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats.

Milton.

3. An act by which the threats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.

Ex"pi*a*tist (?), n. An expiator. [R.]

Ex"pi*a`tor (?), n. [L.] One who makes expiation or atonement.

Ex`pi*a*to"ri*ous (?), a. Of an expiatory nature; expiatory. Jer. Taylor.

Ex"pi*a*to*ry (?), a. [L. expiatorius: cf. F. expiatoire.] Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.

Ex`pi*la"tion (?), n. [L. expiatio.] The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage. [Obs.]

This ravenous expilation of the state.

Daniel.

Ex"pi*la`tor (?), n. [L.] One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Ex*pir"a*ble (?), a. That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.

Ex*pir"ant (?), n. One who expires or is expiring.

Ex`pi*ra"tion (?), n. [L. expiratio,exspiratio: cf. F. expiration. See Expire.] 1. The act of expiring; as: (a)(Physiol.) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration. (b) Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.

The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth.

Bacon.

(c) The last emission of breath; death. "The groan of expiration." Rambler.

(d) A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.

Before the expiration of thy time.

Shak.

2. That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

The aspirate "he," which is . . . a gentle expiration.

G. Sharp.

Ex*pir"a*to*ry (?), a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.

Ex*pire" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expired (?); p. pr & vb. n. Expiring.] [L. expirare, exspirare, expiratum, exspiratum; ex out + spirare to breathe: cf. F. expirer. See Spirit.] 1. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; - - opposed to inspire.

Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.

Harvey.

This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.

Dryden.

2. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.

The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter.

Bacon.

3. To emit; to give out. [Obs.] Dryden.

4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.]

Expire the term Of a despised life.

Shak.

Ex*pire", v. i. 1. To emit the breath.

2. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.

3. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.

4. To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [Obs.] "The ponderous ball expires." Dryden.

Ex*pir"ing (?), a. 1. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

2. Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.

Ex"pi*ry (?), n. Expiration.

He had to leave at the expiry of the term.

Lamb.

The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term.

J. Morley.

Ex*pis"cate (?), v. t. [L. expiscatus, p. p. of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish.] To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] Nichol.

Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them.

W. L. Alexander.

Ex`pis*ca"tion (?), n. The act of expiscating; a fishing. [R.] Chapman.

Ex*pis"ca*to*ry (?), a. Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.

Ex*plain" (ks*pln"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explained(- plnd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Explaining.] [L. explandare to flatten, spread out, explain; ex out + plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, explaner. See Plain,a., and cf. Esplanade.] 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.]

The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf.

Evelyn.

2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.

Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you.

Gay.

To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite away." Pope.

Syn. -- To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.

Ex*plain", v. i. To give an explanation.

Ex*plain"a*ble (?), a. [L. explainabilis.] Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted. Sir. T. Browne.

Ex*plain"er (?), n. One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

Ex"pla*nate, a. [L. explanatus, p. p. of explanare. See Explain.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.

Ex`pla*na"tion (?), n. [L. explanatio: cf. OF. esplanation.] 1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.

3. The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense.

Different explanations [of the Trinity].

Bp. Burnet.

4. A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.

Syn. -- Definition; description; explication; exposition; interpretation; detail. See Definition.

Ex*plan"a*tive (?), a. Explanatory.

Ex*plan"a*to*ri*ness (?), n. The quality of being explanatory.

Ex*plan"a*to*ry (?), a. [L. explanatorius.] Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. Swift.

{ Ex*plat" (?), Ex*plate" (?), } v. t. [Pref. ex- + plat or plait.] To explain; to unfold. [Obs.]

Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws.

B. Jonson.

Ex*ple"tion (?), n. [L. expletio a satisfying. See Expletive.] Accomplishment; fulfillment. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

Ex"ple*tive (?), a. [L. expletivus, from expletus, p. p. of explere to fill up; ex out+plere to fill, akin to plenus full: cf. F. explétif. See Full.] Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. "Expletive imagery." Hallam.

Expletive phrases to plump his speech.

Barrow.

Ex"ple*tive, n. A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.

While explectives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

Pope.

Ex"ple*tive*ly, adv. In the manner of an expletive.

Ex"ple*to*ry (?), a. Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word. Bp. Burnet.

Ex"pli*ca*ble (?), a. [L. explicabilis: cf. F. explicable.] Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

It is not explicable upon any grounds.

Burke.

Ex"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. Quality of being explicable.

Ex"pli*cate (?), a. [L. explicatus, p. p. of explicare.] Evolved; unfolded. Jer. Taylor.

Ex"pli*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Explicated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Explicating(?).] 1. To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] "They explicate the leaves." Blackmore.

2. To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.

The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated.

Dryden.

Ex`pli*ca"tion (?), n. [L. explicatio: cf. F. explication.] 1. The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.

The explication of our Savior's parables.

Atterbury.

2. The sense given by an expositor. Bp. Burnet.

Ex"pli*ca*tive (?), a. [Cf. F. explicatif.] Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory. Sir W. Hamilton.

Ex"pli*ca`tor (?), n. [L.] One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

Ex"pli*ca`to*ry (?), a. Explicative. Barrow.

||Ex"pli*cit (?). [LL., an abbreviation of explicitus (est liber) the book (which anciently was a roll of parchment) is unfolded (and, of course, "finished"). See Explicit, a.] A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.

Ex*plic"it (?), a. [L. explicitus; p. p. of explicare to unfold: cf. F. explicite. See Explicate, Exploit.] 1. Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration.

The language of the charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt.

Bancroft.

2. Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement.

Explicit function. (Math.) See under Function.